User:Mdc on ca

Hi all My name is Mike, I live in Ontario Canada and work as a System Administrator for different companies over the years. I have a keen interest in Ancient History, Math, Sciences, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering

An article about Adam (biblical) that I was in a discussion about and was subsequently archived is copied here:

Genesis 1:26 - Bereshit 1:26 (torah) Why have I not seen any commentary about this?

Torah: [1] Cant use it but it says: our image and likeness

King James Bible: [2] Cant use it but it says: our image... our likeness

Sumerian "Creation" tablets. I have been comparing the Sumerian creation (myth) with the Bible and Torah. Need a reference to the creation myth tablets. The Wikipedia reference dates it to 1900bc. Research that I have been doing on it dates the tablets back to just before the pyramids were built. It points to a lot of things were changed in the history when the Babylonians and the Akkadians took over the kingdom around 3500BC. I read that the Egyptian Kings got their schooling from Mesopotamia, learning advanced math, geometry and astronomy. Their number systems back then was based 60-60 like our 360 degrees-minutes-seconds and 12/24 hour clock. They understood Pi and the golden number. All these were decoded from the Sumerian tablets. There is references to the 9 planets in our solar system back then and tablets with distances to local stars.

Nobody has commented on God creating man in "OUR" image and likeness? Are we still being repressed or censored my a monotheistic culture? I know that we all have been taught about Adam being the first human, but what about where the Torah and Bible came from? The Sumerian "Creation Myth" seems to me to be not a myth but stories that were handed down and finally transcribed onto a tablet. Is it a coincidence that the stories parallel the bible in so many ways including the great flood?

My main point here is that Adamu or Adam or ha'adam (the man) as God was narrating it was created in OUR image implying that God was not alone. My perspective on this is that OUR refers to what we interpret now as His angels. Back then the Sumerians, and up to and including the Romans, and the Greeks, believed in the "gods" and that they were not of this earth. The "gods" were here for a very, very long time and were mining gold. They got tired of the labour and decided to create a helper "man" to do the work for them so they could rest on the seventh day. Just like the most of the amateur archeologists ignore the fact that 6000 years ago water levels were a lot higher than they are now, most amateur historians are ignoring the fact that we interpret our history differently now than we did 5000 years ago. Things are not the same now that they were at the end of the last ice age and how we perceive "God" now is different.

I hope that in the discussions about Adam - the man, that somebody finds the wisdom to include the reference to God in PLURAL.

Thank You,

References

http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp?action=displaypage&book=1&chapter=1&verse=26&portion=1 http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-1-26/ Mdc on ca (talk) 13:16, 17 December 2013 (UTC)mdc_on_ca