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WHY ARE WE HERE? A Scary Truth Behind the Original Bible Story | Full Documentary
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0:31 - 0:35I've been a preacher for more than 30
years. I've studied and taught through -
0:35 - 0:39the book of Genesis many, many times
in churches all around the world -
0:39 - 0:43and I've trained pastors in the skills of
interpreting texts -
0:43 - 0:46and it's very clear they're not stories
about Gods. -
0:46 - 0:50They're stories about the powerful ones in
the Bible. -
0:50 - 0:54And the sky people, the Anunnaki
and the Sumerian tablets -
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1:11 - 1:15[Narrator] In 1896 eminent scholar
Nathaniel Schmidt -
1:15 - 1:19was fired from his position
as Professor of Semitic languages -
1:19 - 1:22at Colgate University
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1:22 - 1:27For eleven years, this American University
had enjoyed Nathaniel Schmidt erudition -
1:27 - 1:29and Semitic Languages
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1:29 - 1:34He delivered numerous courses in Hebrew,
Aramaic, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac -
1:34 - 1:37and other ancient languages besides
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1:37 - 1:42In fact, Nathaniel Schmidt was one of
America's leading scholars in the field -
1:43 - 1:47So why, after eleven years
of outstanding achievement -
1:47 - 1:49was he tried for heresy,
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1:49 - 1:52and fired from his tenure in 1896?
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1:53 - 1:56Though a devout Christian
and a Baptist pastor -
1:56 - 1:59The authorities considered
that his recent -
1:59 - 2:01theological papers had struck
at the very roots -
2:01 - 2:03of two world religions
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2:04 - 2:06Christianity and Judaism.
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2:07 - 2:10What Nathaniel Schmidt had done wrong
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2:10 - 2:13was read the Sumerian and Babylonian
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2:13 - 2:17and Assyrian text and notice
that they were full -
2:17 - 2:21of fascinating parallels.
Stories that occurred there -
2:21 - 2:25that were uncannily similar to all
the stories and beginnings -
2:25 - 2:26of the Bible.
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2:26 - 2:28Stories like: Adam and Eve
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2:28 - 2:30The Fall, Cain and Abel
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2:31 - 2:34The Flood, the limiting of human life,
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2:34 - 2:36the event of the Tower of Babel,
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2:36 - 2:40and Schmidt's work demonstrated that
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2:40 - 2:43the Sumerian accounts
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2:43 - 2:48and those that follow it
from nearly 6000 years ago -
2:48 - 2:51where in all probability
the source of all those familiar -
2:51 - 2:53biblical stories.
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2:53 - 2:56Now, that was a problem
in the 1890's -
2:56 - 2:57because if you think about it
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2:57 - 3:00the Church was still reading from
the after effects of -
3:00 - 3:03[Paul] Charles Darwin's
"On the Origin of Species" -
3:03 - 3:05and it is busy
putting together -
3:05 - 3:06new doctrinal basis
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3:06 - 3:09and new doctrines
of biblical inherency -
3:09 - 3:10to shore up the ship
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3:11 - 3:13So the idea that the Bible
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3:13 - 3:16might actually be based
on somebody else's stories -
3:17 - 3:18was a bit of an embarrassment
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3:18 - 3:20It shouldn't have been
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3:20 - 3:22because Judaism
and Christianity -
3:22 - 3:24both find their roots
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3:24 - 3:27in the story of a Sumerian family.
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3:27 - 3:31The family of Abraham and Sarah.
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3:31 - 3:33Abraham and Sarah
grew up and spent -
3:33 - 3:36the best part of their lives
in (research name) -
3:36 - 3:37A Sumerian culture
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3:38 - 3:41and so when they emigrated
from there -
3:41 - 3:44it's hardly surprising that
they would carry with them -
3:44 - 3:46all the stories of beginnings
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3:46 - 3:48that they had
grown up with. -
3:48 - 3:51and sew them
into the foundations -
3:51 - 3:52of what was to become
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3:52 - 3:54their culture
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3:54 - 3:55their religion
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3:55 - 3:57and their Bible.
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3:57 - 4:00And so, it shouldn't be a surprise
that in the Bible -
4:00 - 4:04we have a summary version
of all these stories -
4:04 - 4:08that pepper the Sumerian, Babylonian
and Assyrian texts. -
4:08 - 4:11The problem and the shock horror
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4:11 - 4:13is that the original versions
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4:13 - 4:18the Sumerian versions of these stories
make no mention of God at all. -
4:19 - 4:22In the Sumerian originals
these are stories -
4:22 - 4:26of our ancestor's contact
with another species. -
4:27 - 4:29A species called
The Anunnakki. -
4:31 - 4:33[Narrator] Could Judaism
and Christianity -
4:33 - 4:34familiar stories of God
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4:34 - 4:38really be a retelling of our
ancestor's close encounters -
4:38 - 4:41with extraterrestrials?
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4:41 - 4:47the cuneiform tablets which has fascinated
Nathaniel Schmidt were first on Earth in 1500. -
4:47 - 4:53As colonial powers began to escalate the ancient
sites of Mesopotamia. -
4:53 - 4:59Over the decades had followed some 200,000 clay tablets were uncovered.
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5:00 - 5:04The tablets were adorned with strange etchings
or glyphs -
5:04 - 5:07made when the clay was soft.
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5:07 - 5:12Scholars of the day divided us to the meanings of these markings
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5:12 - 5:16Some believe that the glyphs to be an unknown written language.
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5:16 - 5:18Others refuse to accept this.
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5:18 - 5:21since the tablets appear to predate any known language.
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5:21 - 5:26They presume the markings to be no more than decoration.
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5:26 - 5:29And so the tablets were archived,
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5:29 - 5:33the secrets were locked away for three centuries.
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5:34 - 5:37Until in 1835,
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5:37 - 5:42Henry Rawranson arrived. In south western Iran.
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5:43 - 5:48Rawranson was a military man. He was employed by the East India Tea Company.
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5:48 - 5:52And he was in Iran helping the Shah of Iran to train his troops.
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5:52 - 5:55As worth pausing there for a moment because if you thought that
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5:55 - 6:00corporations rivaling nations states was something new
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6:00 - 6:03take a look at the East India Tea company.
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6:03 - 6:07A tea company that's able to move a standing army
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6:07 - 6:13around the world and train the armies of nation states.
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6:13 - 6:16That's quite a tea company.
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6:16 - 6:23In fact, Rawranson presence in Iran wasn't part of quid pro quo for trading rights.
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6:23 - 6:27He was there for access to the district of Behistun.
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6:27 - 6:32He wanted to find the Behistun inscription
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6:33 - 6:37[Narrator] the Behistun inscription was an ancient royal proclamation
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6:37 - 6:40carved into a cliff face.
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6:40 - 6:47It was written in three known languages Persian, Elamite and Akkadian.
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6:47 - 6:51Which was the common language of Mesopotamian cultures.
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6:51 - 6:57The inscription expressed all three languages in
cuneiform script. -
6:58 - 7:03It was the translation key that cuneiform tablets have been waiting for.
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7:03 - 7:08The memories of the Mesopotamian ancient cultures was suddenly an open book.
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7:09 - 7:12The glyphs were not made decoration after all.
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7:13 - 7:14They were banking records
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7:14 - 7:15business agreements,
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7:15 - 7:17shopping lists,
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7:17 - 7:18contracts,
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7:18 - 7:20recipes,
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7:20 - 7:21inventories,
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7:21 - 7:27royal histories and the most ancient narrative in the history of the world
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7:28 - 7:34It was in these ancient narratives that the source of the bibles familiar stories
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7:34 - 7:36began to emarge.
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7:37 - 7:41At an academic level Nathaniel Schmidt was in good company,
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7:42 - 7:47He was one of the small number who began confronting us with this new layer of our history.
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7:47 - 7:51I should mention just to reassure you that shortly after Colgate university fired him
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7:51 - 7:58he did get a new job with Cornell University. and he was a professor of Semitic languages for full 36 years.
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7:58 - 8:00So, he did land on his feet.
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8:00 - 8:06His work continued to argue that the cuneiform reveal that
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8:06 - 8:13earliest history are not about god. They are about a prehistoric contact with the Anunnaki.
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8:15 - 8:22[Narrator] In the 20th century, the writer Zecharia Sitchin began pouring over the cuneiform texts.
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8:22 - 8:26He highlighted the clear implications of the
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8:27 - 8:32That the Anunnaki were powerful and advanced extraterrestrial species.
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8:33 - 8:39Their arrival on planet Earth put them at the top of the terrestrial food chain.
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8:39 - 8:45To create a local work force, the Anunnaki used sequences of their own genetic code
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8:45 - 8:54to hybridize a primed ancestor into a human, ready to put to work for their Anunnaki masters.
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8:55 - 9:01Such an argued the word Anunnaki means those who came from the heavens to Earth.
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9:02 - 9:06A phrase that made clear that the
extraterrestrials origin. -
9:06 - 9:11Zecharia Sitchin was not an academic. He was not a PHD or a professor.
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9:11 - 9:15He had a degree from the London School of Economics and worked in commerce.
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9:15 - 9:19The LSE I should is a pretty august institution
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9:20 - 9:24He wrote at a popular level. Let's to say for general audience.
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9:24 - 9:28And not with the kind of referencing and footnotes
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9:28 - 9:31that you'd expect to see in an academic kind of tome
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9:32 - 9:36An academic critics don't like that. They think that slack.
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9:36 - 9:40Some might identify mistakes or bias in his work.
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9:41 - 9:44And that's then their pretext to disregard his contributions
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9:44 - 9:47which is an important one.
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9:47 - 9:52Now, some writers in the field reject Sitchin's translation of the word Anunnaki
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9:52 - 9:55and they would contend that the word usage
tells us -
9:55 - 9:59that it simply means nobility or royalty.
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9:59 - 10:00the rulers
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10:01 - 10:05I'm not persuaded by that. It's not that that's not true.
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10:05 - 10:10It's just a very partial answer. It's a very lazy explanation.
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10:10 - 10:13It simply doesn't ask enough of questions.
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10:13 - 10:17Who were the rulers identified by this word?
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10:17 - 10:19why is that word associated with the rulers?
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10:20 - 10:24You see if yo look at the etymology of the word,
at it's roots meanings -
10:24 - 10:27look at the component parts you have
Anu -
10:27 - 10:28which means heavens
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10:28 - 10:31ki which means Earth.
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10:31 - 10:34Anunnaki are those who came from the heavens to the earth.
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10:34 - 10:38You can follow the logic ,but even if you didn't have
the narrative -
10:38 - 10:40imbedded in the word itself
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10:40 - 10:44as soon as you read the cuneiforms, the stories
themselves -
10:44 - 10:47unpack that that's exactly what was going on.
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10:47 - 10:51And the glyph that they used to indicate the rulers
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10:51 - 10:55who come down from the heavens at the beginning of the story
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10:55 - 10:58that glyph simply indicates the sky
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10:58 - 11:02So, these Anunnaki are from the heavens.
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11:02 - 11:04The sky people.
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11:08 - 11:12[Narrator] Many of the world's oldest mythologies claim
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11:12 - 11:15that the governance of human society began
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11:15 - 11:21with dominance over human beings, being
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Not SyncedEgyptian mythology holds such a narrative
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Not SyncedSimilarly The Bible speaks of King Sol
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Not SyncedThe Semeirian cuneiforms
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Not SyncedTo be more accurate, Gilgamesh is a transition king
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Not SyncedHis name appears on one of the most famous of Mesopotamian artifacts
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Not Syncedand all the rest of the cuneiform tablets
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Not Syncedof Sumeria
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Not SyncedNow that precision absolutely befits Sumerian culture
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Not Syncedthat dynasty of 24,500 years, 3 months and 3 and a half days
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Not Syncedthats an average range of more than a thousand years each
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Not Syncedand its not a one off
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Not Syncedthe dynasty concluded by the great flood
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Not Syncedlasted 241,000 years shared by no more than 8 kings
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Not SyncedNow, some have tried to make the dates symbolic
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Not Syncedor have interpreted their unit of timedifferently
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Not Syncedbut that doesn't quite work when its an unbroken record
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Not Syncedof 6 to 36 year reigns uh
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Not Syncedto 36,000 years reigns
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Not Syncedall in the same unit of time
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Not Syncedall in the same narrative
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Not Syncedthe narrative begins with non-human kings
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Not Syncedare something quite different to juman beings
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Not Syncedit's like comparing the lifespan of a human being
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Not Synced(Narrarator) the king's list is not the only evidence
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Not Syncedpointing to an extraterrestrial hypothesis
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Not Syncedthe Sumerian version of The Tower of Babel
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Not Syncedspeaks of 50 technicians who employ mysterious technology
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Not Syncedto dispatch 300 observers to their stations in the stars
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Not Syncedright along side the genesis account
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Not Syncedthe two narratives confirm one another
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Not Syncedand paint a vivid picture
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Not SyncedBabel, was a stargate
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Not SyncedThe thing that got me into this whole field of research
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Not Syncedwas an anomalous word in the book of genesis
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Not SyncedI've been a preacher for more than 30 years
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Not SyncedI've studied and talked through the book of genesis
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Not Syncedmany, many times in churches all around the world
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Not Syncedand I've trained pastors in the skills of interpreting texts
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Not SyncedSo I've long known about this anomalous word
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Not SyncedWell finally i allowed myself the time to sit down
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Not Syncedand really drill into what was going on
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Not SyncedGenesis uses two words for god
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Not SyncedOne is Elohim and one is Yaweh or Jehovah
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Not SyncedNow, Yaweh is the holy name given to Moses
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Not Syncedin a time, centureis or millenia after all the action described
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Not SyncedAbraham and Sarah have brought with them
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Not Syncedby using the later name
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Not SyncedOriginally, they were Elohim's stories
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Not Syncedit's a plural form word
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Not Syncedit often exhibits plural behaviors, "Let us make,
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Not Syncedwe dont want them to become to much like one of us etc".
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Not SyncedWhen you look at its component parts the word Elohim
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Not SyncedOne by one they confirm each others stories
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Not Syncedthey're stories about the powerful ones in the bible
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Not Syncedand the sky people, the Annunaki in the Sumerian tablets
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Not Synceda non-human ruling presence ever occupied planet earth
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Not Syncedwell one obvious possibility is by DNA testing
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Not Syncedso if Gilgamesh really was a human Anunnaki hybrid
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Not Syncedthen all we have to do is find the royal tomb and DNA test him
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Not Syncedwell I believe that's exactly what happened in Iraq
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Not Syncedin 2003 a team went in protected by American troops
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Not Syncedand found Gilgamesh's tomb
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Not SyncedFassbender spoke to the BBC you can go on his website
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