02-04-2023, 08:11 PM
For those of us here following what's going on with Ben and the Suspicious 0bservers:
Earth Disaster Cycle | Live Q&A Feb.4.2023
The link brings you at the point in the video where he responds to a superchat question/comment. If you don't know, a superchat is when someone pays money to send a highlighted chat message, and it's courtesy for the streamer to answer them.
The superchatter mentioned God's promise in Genesis about not flooding the world again, and Ben from S0 failed in his answer. He said the Bible is a result of a telephone game, where the original text was passed around so much between people that we have ended up with something very different than what was intended. Which is...not true. We have original copies of most everything you read in the Bible, which is "enough" of a legitimate generation of text according to any historian you could talk to.
Ben also said that the "world" as mentioned in Genesis 9 wasn't meant as the entire globe, likely just what Noah or the Genesis writer/Moses had considered the world to be. I'm gonna assume (Ed can weigh in on this) that ancient Hebrew folks knew there was a wider world out there, with nations and lands they didn't know about, but the need to nail down the details wasn't a pressing one. The wider world wasn't necessarily important to their every day life, so it was left at that. Maybe those Hebrews inclined to an active imagination did some thinking about it, but it didn't address the important questions in life.
Catacomb Resident mentioned another one of Ben's videos in this blog post, although I think Ben proposes a gradual rise in sea levels rather than a violent tsnuami.
Either way, despite a lot of the things with the disaster cycle Ben put together, this was a big fail.
Earth Disaster Cycle | Live Q&A Feb.4.2023
The link brings you at the point in the video where he responds to a superchat question/comment. If you don't know, a superchat is when someone pays money to send a highlighted chat message, and it's courtesy for the streamer to answer them.
The superchatter mentioned God's promise in Genesis about not flooding the world again, and Ben from S0 failed in his answer. He said the Bible is a result of a telephone game, where the original text was passed around so much between people that we have ended up with something very different than what was intended. Which is...not true. We have original copies of most everything you read in the Bible, which is "enough" of a legitimate generation of text according to any historian you could talk to.
Ben also said that the "world" as mentioned in Genesis 9 wasn't meant as the entire globe, likely just what Noah or the Genesis writer/Moses had considered the world to be. I'm gonna assume (Ed can weigh in on this) that ancient Hebrew folks knew there was a wider world out there, with nations and lands they didn't know about, but the need to nail down the details wasn't a pressing one. The wider world wasn't necessarily important to their every day life, so it was left at that. Maybe those Hebrews inclined to an active imagination did some thinking about it, but it didn't address the important questions in life.
Catacomb Resident mentioned another one of Ben's videos in this blog post, although I think Ben proposes a gradual rise in sea levels rather than a violent tsnuami.
Either way, despite a lot of the things with the disaster cycle Ben put together, this was a big fail.