The Beginning - Part Five

Given all that has gone before in this series ( and I only ask that you consider the possibility that it could be true ), we would now be at the time when the Lords of the World had come down to the newly found Earth. Also, given what we know about the field of biometrics, they would not have been free to wander as they pleased. They would not have wished to trigger epidemics of diseases among the denizens of this place, and wouldn't have wanted to suffer any local maladies for which they might not have any immune responses. And they would be quite different from us, their descendants.
For one thing, they would be bigger and would live much longer. This is because they would have been living in an environment of lower gravity for nearly a thousand years. Being subjected to the heavier gravitation of the new world they would have settled in mountains where gravity would have been somewhat lighter, thus the reference to ' being on high '. They would have lived longer as their bodies would endure longer in the lower gravity of the City of Heaven, but this would evolve to lower lifespans over time. After all, the effects of gravity are with us from the very first; all our lives the force of gravity presses us to the surface of the Earth unrelentingly. With advancing years the body tends to wear out under this strain and this degenration may be abated by exercise and proper nutrition - and a fit spiritual condition.
The Lords would have been a genetically isolated race, and would therefore face the possibility of eventual inbreeding, thus would need a fresh source of genes. At this time, Evolution would have progressed to the mammalian stage and there would be several species of proto-man: largely ape-like but already having the earmarks of intelligence; binocular vision, stereo audition, opposed thumbs, and the ability to stand upright. Any race capable of crossing space would certainly have great knowledge of Genetic Engineering, and would have set about trying to elevate one of these species to their own physical profile. This would be one factor in the longevity of early mankind, as with the Generation of Adam.
The Lords, having a gentic propensity toward longer lives would have imbued their offspring with this same property. This alone would not account for the whole, but would be only one factor. Another would be the gravitational forces in play during those early times as the Earth spun more rapidly on its axis. It is presently slowing at about one second per century. Going back four-million years, we may safely conclude that the force of gravity was considerably less. Some contemporary textbooks have shown depictions of Brontosauri standing in lakes, that the buoyancy of the water would help in supporting their massive weight; in fact today, those 70 ton beasts would hardly be able to stand, but in a gravity of lower intensity would stand and get about handily.Finally, the earth possibly being as close to the Sun as Venus, the year would have been a little more than two-thirds its present length. The evidence of tropical vegetation and hotter climates revealed through paleontology is quite consistent with this conclusion.

The Fundamentalist interpretation of Genesis is that God made man in [His] own image and likeness. I have no quarrel with that except that it is overly simplistic. My view, which I hold in common with many others, is that God creates everything, and that this process is eternal, without beginning and without end. The Time of the End only seeks to describe the way in which mankind came to be on the Earth, and to suggest a higher purpose for our kind than we are presently demonstrating.
Authors and playwrites have based their work in large part on the tragi-comic nature of man: the higher aspiring sense, and the lower, baser, and meaner side of human nature. If God is as we see the Spirit of the Universe; Good, True, Beautiful, Peaceful, Orderly, and Harmonious; wouldn't [He] have created man in the same image? And since God ( the Spirit of the Universe ) is All Things Everywhere, just what form would this image take?
Creationism is a crippled fantasy replete with loose ends, unsubstantiated ' facts ', contradictions, and a narrow outlook that fails to consider any other alternative. Ask a question they can't answer and their reply accounts some ' divine ' censorship, according to which we are not supposed to know these things. To such as these ' faith ' is blind, like the ostrich who buries his head in the sand in the belief that he can't be seen. None think about the things that we do know, like how to build hydrogen bombs, ICBMs, chemical and bacterial weapons. Why do we know how to make these things yet are not supposed to question the divisive, prejudicial, and destructive ideaology that enables these things to flourish? In fact, we might ask why it is that man has a lower nature at all?
Homo Robustus, the earliest proto-man known, was a creature of the wilderness, a very dangerous place. This was the environment of the ' quick and the dead ' and without the penchant for hunting, stalking, and killing, our race would have died out eons ago. It was killing for survival and it took skills that we, today, call anti-social, but which were quite appropriate for the time. From the first time two clans fought over a carcass to the present day when we engage in Resource Wars, mankind has been killing its own kind in ever more sophisticated and dreadful ways.
The violence depicted in the Bible chronicles the Lords' efforts to curb these fatal instincts and to imbue their offspring with a new sense of spiritual awareness. Yashueh of Capernaum ( Jesus ) was a Lord of the World; his teachings bear witness to this truth: Worhip God above all things and love thy neighbor. In the Beatitudes he said, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God."
Where are the peacemakers?

In his new book, "The Prince of War: Billy Graham's Crusade for a Wholly Christian Empire." The author, Cecil Bothwell, documents that there wasn't a war the U.S. was involved in that Rev. Graham couldn't bless. In fact, he reveals that during the horrific Vietnam conflict, (1959-75), he had urged the then-President, Richard M. Nixon, to bomb North Vietnam! In a 13-page letter, that Rev. Graham had forwarded to the White House in April, 1969, it was stated: "There are tens of thousands of North Vietnamese defectors to bomb and invade the North. Why should all the fighting be in the South?...Especially let them bomb the dikes which could over night destroy the economy of North Vietnam." Mr. Bothwell underscored that such a military action against the dikes, a huge complex of earthworks, would probably "kill a million people and wipe out an already poor nation's agricultural system" He added that the advice in Graham's transmittal "fell on receptive ears. Not longer after, Nixon moved the air war north and west."
There is more. After the deadly Kent State U. affair, (May 4, 1970), where four
students, who were protesting the Nixon-Henry Kissinger-inspired bombing of Cambodia, were killed by Ohio's National Guard troops, Rev. Graham invited the mostly unbalanced Nixon to address his crusade. It was held in Knoxville, TN. While parents of the students were still grieving and burying their dead, Rev. Graham shamelessly shilled: "All Americans may not agree with the decision a president makes--but he is our president..."
Also, every chance Rev. Graham got he ripped into antiwar protesters in this country, while the Vietnam inferno was raging. After a large pro peace demonstration in late 1969, he railed in a letter to then President Lyndon B. Johnson, that the protesters were "radicals and those seeking to overthrow the American way of life." When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out, in 1967 against the war in a sermon at the Riverside Church in NYC, Rev. Graham, jumped right in and tagged his criticism as "an affront to the thousands of loyal Negro troops who are in Vietnam." When Dr. King marched for Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama, Rev. Graham was no where to be found. And, after Dr. King was gunned down in Memphis, TN, he couldn't be bothered to attend his funeral either.
Rev. Graham made a career out of sucking up to U.S. presidents. Mr. Bothwell wrote how he loved those "endless photo-ops" at the White House, and how he was lways, "so eager to shake the hands of...despots, movie stars and industrial kingpins, and to offer grandiose approval of their greatness. Obsequy, more than money, seemed to drive the man--though his pockets were never empty." Fortunately, not all the presidents bought into Rev. Graham's bogus act. One of my favorites, President Harry S. Truman, who was born in Lamar, MO, knew a wide variety of people from political bosses to political hacks. He had a built in b... s... detector. This is what President Truman had to say about the war-loving, camera-mugging preacher: "Graham has gone off the beam. He's...well, I hadn't ought to say this, but he's one of those 'counterfeits' I was telling you about. He claims he's a friend of all the presidents, but he was never a friend of mine when I was president. I just don't go for people like that. All he's interested in is getting his name in the paper."
Wait a minute! Wholly Christian Empire? Isn't that what's going on today? The cretin who currently ocupies the White House referred to the war in Iraq as a 'Crusade', a label that must have set the Arab world's teeth on edge. And the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio is stumping for a broader military adventure in the Middle East; one that is supposed to lead to the Battle of Armageddon, which ( according to him and his ilk ) must happen before Jesus returns to Earth. Oh, and the Jews will all covert to ' Christianity ' too!
Where are the peacemakers????

To be continued.