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Josephus Contradicts Nature

  1. Antiquities 1.1.3 says, "…Euphrates also, as well as Tigris, goes down into the Red Sea." Check the map. This does not happen. Some have suggested the Greeks considered all of the Indian Ocean to be the Red Sea. Josephus was Hebrew not Greek. Also, in his writings he did not consider them to be the same thing. Antiquities 1.6.4 says, "Shem, the third son of Noah, had five sons, who inhabited the land that began at Euphrates, and reached to the Indian Ocean."

  2. Antiquities 1.1.3 talks about a river coming from the Garden of Eden and then parting into the Ganges, Euphrates, Tigris and Nile. "Now the garden was watered by one river,(3) which ran round about the whole earth, and was parted into four parts. And Phison, which denotes a multitude, running into India, makes its exit into the sea, and is by the Greeks called Ganges. Euphrates also, as well as Tigris, goes down into the Red Sea.(4) Now the name Euphrates, or Phrath, denotes either a dispersion, or a flower: by Tiris, or Diglath, is signified what is swift, with narrowness; and Geon runs through Egypt, and denotes what arises from the east, which the Greeks call Nile." Genesis 2:10 lists four rivers which went out from the Garden of Eden and parted. They were the Pison, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates. The Pison and Gihon are not the Ganges and Nile. The Ganges and Nile rivers never tied into the Tigris and Euphrates. The Ganges flows into a different section of the Indian Ocean and the Nile flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

    Map showing the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowing into the Persian Gulf

  3. Antiquities 1.6.3 says, "Noah, when after the deluge, the earth was resettled in its former condition…" There is overwhelming scientific proof that there are huge layers of sedimentary rock all over the earth that could only be laid down by a global catastrophic flood. Furthermore, these layers contain billions and billions of dead things in the form of fossils that did not exist at the onset of creation.

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