thesavagepea

Well, I'm back. After a 2 year hiatus from the Savage Pea I am back and I will try to add some thoughts to this blog (since nobody else seems interested in doing it) Or until Renee' finally creates my REAL blog/website.

Anyway, here I am again.

Brenda

Something came from nothing then exploded.

hhmmm....

My family are card players. Pinochle. We love a good game of pinochle. Pinochle is inexplicable to those who don’t play cards, let me just say that there is bidding, trump and meld. The deck has only aces, 10s, kings, queens, jacks and 9s, their value in that order. Anyway, my three year old , Sophie, has listened to us play quite often. One morning as I was clearing away glasses and napkins from the previous evenings card game Sophie picked up the deck and started slinging cards like a dealer and saying, “PASS!… PASS!” as each card slide across the table and onto the floor.

Not long after this the family was all together eating out at a burger place and the table had a stack of those cardboard coasters. Sophie handed a few to my brother, threw down a couple coasters and said, “I’ll take 3!“ Sophie and Uncle Brian happily played coaster pinochle until our food came. Ya gotta love kids.

The Genesis Flood

China Flood Legend
A flood story in China records that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters escaped a great flood and were the only people alive on earth.

Hawaii Flood Legend
A flood story in Hawaii records that Nu-u and his family escaped a global flood by building a great canoe and filling it with animals. Only he and his family were left alive.

Sound familiar? To biblical believers, yes they should.

Similar global flood stories also appear in the ancient writings of Assyria/Babylon, Persia, Syria, Asia Minor, Greece, Egypt, Italy, Aboriginal Australia, Lithuania, Russia, India, Cree Indians (Canada) , Cherokee Indians (US), Papago (Mexico), Aztecs (Mexico), Peru, Leeward Islands, Fiji Islands, and the list goes on and on.

These are just a few examples of extra-biblical flood stories. Oddly enough, I never heard anything about this in high school or college history. Isn’t it strange that an event common to so many ancient cultures never appears in our modern text books? Most people have no idea that there are stories of a worldwide flood in almost every culture on the planet. Flood stories have been found in every continent on the globe. If the stories do appear they are usually used to try and discredit the biblical story as ‘just another legend’. As a biblical believer I am not surprised by this.

The reason we don’t hear more about these global flood stories is that it obviously lends credibility to the story of Noah in the bible. I suppose this makes a lot of people uncomfortable, particularly those who want to discount the bible as a source of accurate history. Because, let’s face it, if Noah’s flood really happened as written then the doubters would have to ask themselves, “If the story of Noah’s flood is true, what else in the bible is true?”

I see these many similar accounts as evidence that they originate from the same event in history. The people who were alive at the time the Tower of Babel was being built were all descendents of Noah and his family. These people all had a shared memory/history of the global flood. After the confusion of their languages these people all began to move off in different directions taking this shared history with them. The flood stories were slightly distorted over time, but retaining the basic elements of the Genesis account. Almost without fail, the stories all tell of a man and his family who took animals on a boat and who were the sole survivors after a terrible flood.

So, why does it matter whether or not the Genesis flood was a true event or just an allegory? Because Jesus talked about the flood of Noah in Luke 17. IF the flood was just an allegory then Jesus was a liar. Also, if the flood is just an allegory then so is the story of Adam and Eve, and if Adam and Eve is just a cautionary tale and they never really existed, then the death of Jesus is pointless and our faith is meaningless. For Jesus came to restore what Adam lost. 1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

When this is all linked together no wonder it makes the secular scientists groan. If these stories are true, then evolution can not be, for the bible has a very different account of the origins of the earth and the life on it. If the bible is true then all the claims of Darwinists (goo to you via the zoo) can not stand .

Here is why: IF, the planet at one time was completely covered in sea water (and it was since the highest mountains have fossils of sea creatures) Then the receding of these waters would certainly have created our great canyons and other geologic formations, not over millions of years, but quickly. It is also a perfect explanation for the fossil record which necessitates that the animals who were fossilized had to have been quickly killed and buried in sediment before the bodies began to decompose. This quick burial would also explain why fossils are usually complete skeletons and why the bones were not scattered as happens in natural decomposition. The jumbled fossil layers would also make sense if the animals had been caught and piled up in a catastrophic event on the scale of the Genesis Flood.

When you add all these together it creates a big problem for evolutionists. And evolutionists do not want anybody to believe anything, but purely naturalistic, long time span, evolutionary origins of the universe. (ask any college student who tries to disagree with their professors in this area) Because anything else points to God. A God of the Bible who has plans for us and expects us to live our lives in HIS way, not our way.

References:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/
http://www.globalflood.org/
http://www.icr.org/

I have recently become a student of Bellydance. This is something I have thought about doing for a long time and I am having more fun than I could ever have imagined. It is an ancient form of dance originally performed by women for women. Bellydance focuses on isolating muscle groups and was used to prepare women for childbirth by strengthening all the abdominal muscles. Here is a great example of great bellydance. (I have a long way to go)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YamDoDK71Ds

PS. there are photos of me debuting as a dancer in the photos link to the right

I have a three year old daughter, as most of you already know. This morning I noticed a small fossilized nautilus shell I had on display was missing. It is within the range of small children, but being too large to swallow and too hard to damage, I felt it would make an interesting and practical item of decor. I got it on my trip to Morroco and so I wanted to recover it. I asked my daughter if she had played with it and if she remembered where she put it? This is how our conversation went:

Me: Sophie, do you know where Mommy's shell went?
S: Rosie took it. (note: Rosie is Sophie's best friend who is usually blamed for everything and vice-versa on Rosie's part)
Me: I don't think Rosie took it. Did you and Rosie play with it?
S: We put it in the pool. (I walk all around pool looking for nautilus in freezing cold)
Me: Sophie the shell is not in the pool. Did you put it somewhere else?
S: McDonald's.
Me: Did you take it to McDonald's?
S: No, the dog ate it.
Me. I don't think the dog ate it honey, it is too big. Can you remember where it went? Is it behind the piano?
S. Yes. (while many items HAVE wound up behind the piano the nautilus was not there.
Me: The nautilus isn't behind the piano honey. Can you help Mommy find it?
S: (stares at Dora show seemingly not hearing me)
Me: (walks away)

Well, it has been quite a while since my last entry here, not that anyone noticed. I have been busy being a mom of two. I rarely have a spare moment to think, let alone type anything. When I do have a moment I usually try to do nothing at all - I know, but we all get by as best we can. hehe. All I really wanted to do is wish everyone a Happy New Year. I have an unusual sense of optimism regarding the upcoming year and I wanted to share that with you - whoever you are.