I don't remember claiming anything about Lot coming before or after Noah.
Strawman?
I never had said anything about gensis before that... why are you so angry?
well luckily we have people know as scholars, archeologists, and historians who figure these things out using VERFIABLE EVIDENCE.
You should be agnostic towards the dates until presented with evidence otherwise. Instead you are rejecting claims out of hand. Being uninquisitive and dismissive. You appear to have an irrational bias, based on the reasoning you have presented thus far.
Listen, I'm sorry my 'random thought' threatens your thesis or whatever called for this level of attacks.
The dates are hardly specific... unless you litterally believe that Adam the individual lived to be 988 years old. It's not always clear reading the bible of whether the 'individuals' are defacto individuals, groups, clans, countries. Does that mean that I'm saying this is the case for EVERY story in the bible, no...
I mean, even the line 'though shalt not kill' could mean 'any kind of killing is wrong' or 'though shalt not murder' meaning you are allowed to defend youself... How are you going to tell me that your opinion of that is fact?? how are you going to prove a flood that might very well have been some 11-12000 years ago...
Are you sure about that? Have you looked into why people believe the sequence is as they say?
No! You are being dismissive out of hand!
No, I'm quite UNcertain of ANYTHING in the bible... however, just because I know the bible is representative of truth doesn't mean that every aspect of the books, or the progressions of the overall story/history.
Not as much as I've looked into the reasons why other books had been 'left out' of the canon of text.
I'm not being dismissive.... not anymore then you're being arrogant. I mean, the fact of the matter is there is almost more evidence AGAINST there being a 'Jesus Christ' then of him existing... that is where the 'faith' comes in, and where you must draw the true message out of it.
Also, over the centuries, how many interpretations on interpretations of the bible have their been? You don't think in that time there COULD HAVE BEEN someone wanting to make a 'self-interested' change??
That pages might seem to match up but are switched around... in that stretch of time, it's impossible to say unless you're able to read the original texts for yourself...