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View all search resultsYour letters: Noah is like a children's story
Banned: One of the scenes of Hollywoodâs retelling of the biblical tale Noah, a film banned by the Film Censorship Institute (LSF) from being distributed in Indonesia as it is considered controversial
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Banned: One of the scenes of Hollywoodâs retelling of the biblical tale Noah, a film banned by the Film Censorship Institute (LSF) from being distributed in Indonesia as it is considered controversial. (Courtesy of Paramount Pictures) (LSF) from being distributed in Indonesia as it is considered controversial. (Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)
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span class="caption" style="width: 498px;">Banned: One of the scenes of Hollywood's retelling of the biblical tale Noah, a film banned by the Film Censorship Institute (LSF) from being distributed in Indonesia as it is considered controversial. (Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)
The Indonesian Film Censorship Institute (LSF) cannot be serious. The biblical story of Noah is like a children's story with no basis in fact at all. Basically it is a metaphoric tale that hides its real story. Do you people actually believe that someone lived 950 years?
'All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died' (Gen. 9:29).
Enoch's days were 365 years (Gen. 5:23), the same number derived from Enoch's calendar to make one solar year. However, Enoch dictated creation spanning 4,900 years divided by ten periods of 490 years, divided by ten jubilee years of 49 years, which in turn derives the Jewish magical number seven: 7 x 7 = 49, 7 x 70 = 490, and 700 x 7 = 4,900 years.
Thus 'And you shall number seven Sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty and nine years. Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall you make the trumpet sound' (Lev. 25:8-14).
An Essene solar year comprises a 364-day year, a jubilee is 49 years of 364 days comprising 588 months (seven years). This required adjustment (intercalation) in line with Enoch's 365-day year and the dictates of 4Q 260 b. Irrespective of any intercalation this must adjust 61-and-a-quarter days or two months over a jubilee period to stay in sync with the lunar calendar, and seven days every seven years for a 364-day year to stay in sync with the 365-day year. However, to obtain Noah's 950 years requires something else.
'Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth ['¦] It came to pass after seven days the waters of the flood were upon the earth' (Gen. 7:6, 10).
Six hundred equals 50 years x 12 months, the 50th being the year that a jubilee ends. But, don't we still need another 350 jubilee years for Noah's 950?
'Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years' (Gen. 9:28).
Thus Noah lived one jubilee 50-year period of 600 months and part of the following jubilee of 350 months, or 29 years.
So Noah lived 950 pesher (interpretation) years, which in reality equates to 79.16 years. So, divide 950 by 79 equals 12.02, which is 12.02 months of 30.38 days, which equals a 364.64-day year?
They did not understand decimals so it equates with a 364-day year x 79, thus this is Noah's actual age. The residual minor numbers would have entailed minor intercalations in line with the sun.
The aforementioned pesher of Genesis opens up the text. The number 'seven days' we know means a period of intercalation, and the word 'flood' refers to those who operated the calendar system.
No doubt there are some loons still searching in vain for a three-story boat while the ark is above them shining in the sky ' yes, the ark is the sun. And you lot are banning a film of a children's story. Hello, is anyone there?
Barry Swain
Jakarta
