Ark of the Covenant
Steve Hayes
Covenant had been discovered and was going to be unveiled and presented to the
Pope this week by the head of the Orthodox church in Ethiopia, where the
biblical artefact has apparently been hidden for the past 2000 years.
The Ark of the Covenant, I don�t need to remind you, is the sacred container
holding the tablets of stone, given to Moses by God Himself, on which the Ten
Commandments are inscribed.
It�s also the Nazi-melting McGuffin of the first Indiana Jones movie, which
obviously makes it seriously awesome.
Well. It turns out that this was all a big old hoax. No surprises there.
According to Reuters, the head of Ethiopia�s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Abune
Paulos, said it�s definitely nonsense: �I am deeply disappointed that the
Italian media misquoted me and disseminated false information about me
unveiling the Ark of the Covenant to the world. It is a fabrication,
disinformation.�
See? Hoax.
He went on to say: �I would like to confirm, however, that the Ark of the
Covenant and the sacred tablets containing the Ten Commandments that God
delivered to Moses are in fact in Ethiopia.�
He�s just not going to let anyone see it.
http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/stompies/2009/07/03/youre-never-going-to-give-this-up/
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://khanya.wordpress.com
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
The instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words,
even when the needy speaketh right.
But the liberal deviseth liberal things;
and by liberal things shall he stand (Isaiah 32:7-8).
AGG
the Ark. he said the story in an Italian newspaper was false.
Al
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Farticus
Just like the God story - its all BS.
AGG
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> Just like the God story - its all BS.
>
***Always nice to have FartFace's opinion.
AGG
the Covenant? And if it does exist and contain the tablets of the 10
Commandments, the tablets would be in pieces, right?
Al
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> ***Question: Why should an Orthodox Christian be concerned with the
> Ark of the Covenant? And if it does exist and contain the tablets of
> the 10 Commandments, the tablets would be in pieces, right?
>
> Al
>
I seem to remember reading that the first set of tablets which God Himself
wrote on did indeed get broken, but then Moses went back up again and wrote
out replacement ones himself. So the ones in the Ark would have been whole,
the ones Moses wrote? I don't recall if the Bible mentions whether the
pieces of the first set were kept or not, although I would have thought they
would have been. If so the Ark might have contained two sets of tablets,
one set being broken.
Tim.