Zemirah wrote:
Whenever people refer to 'the pyramids', they generally mean the great pyramids of Khufu (father), Khafre (son) and Menkaure (grandson) on the Giza plateau near Cairo.
Secular literature commonly dates the Great Pyramid around 2550 BC. If this date is correct, then the Great Pyramid existed before the Flood of Noah’s day, which occurred around 2350 BC destroying everything on earth (2 Peter 3:5–6)! Obviously, something is askew.
There are three points:
1st, the Great Pyramid of Giza lacks significant water damage. The Flood was incredibly destructive.
It accomplished that which God sent it to do. Researchers point out that the entire surface of the earth was radically changed. The surface of every continent was destroyed and new mountains formed. Thousands of feet of mud and sand were dumped on every continent, burying and fossilizing creatures and plants. Nothing manmade could survive such a catastrophe. (The location of the Garden of Eden was also irretrievably lost.)
2nd, The Giza Pyramids were built into the fossil-bearing Cenozoic rock layers (specifically, the Eocene strata 5) that were deposited after the Flood. The date of their construction, as assigned by archaeologists (e.g., 2700-2500 B.C. 6 ), has been inflated based on uniformitarian dating schemes. Clearly, the Flood had to predate a pyramid built on top of the Flood layers.
3rd, the Hebrew word translated “Egypt” is Mizraim. Mizraim was Noah’s grandson, born to Ham after the Flood. So Mizraim’s descendants could not have built the Great Pyramid of Egypt (Mizraim) until after the Flood, and for that matter, after the events at the Tower of Babel that caused Mizraim’s family to move to the region of the Nile River.
Based on this evidence, the Great Pyramid is clearly post-Flood. Many of the accepted dates for events in ancient Egypt came from an ancient list of pharaohs and the lengths of their reigns recorded by the historian Manetho, who lived in Egypt about 200 B.C.
Although there is much more to this, Manetho assumed the pharaohs’ reigns had been consecutive and so tallied them up sequentially to arrive at a very long Egyptian chronology. The problem being some of these pharaohs were reigning at the same time in different Egyptian kingdoms - the Upper Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, or Lower Kingdom. Also, fathers and sons sometimes reigned together for a long time.
As an analogy, if one took all the past state governors of the United States and stacked their terms sequentially, the nation would appear to be much, much older than it is!
In brief, all the pyramids and ziggurats across the world today are post-Flood construction.
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Does an 'ancient atomic war' factor into the timing of the ice age and (later) flood?
Preceding the construction of the pyramids are structures of more advanced stone-cutting skills. A 'builder culture' is speculated to have preceded the Egyptian pharaoh dynasties.
In the area of the sphinx are structures that are more massive and more precisely fitted. Clearly a different technology.
IMO, we are denied the actual history which does not comport with Jewish prophecy and Christian mythology.
Back to this topic, what are your perspectives on Neanderthal and Khazarian cultures? Neanderthal genetic tracing?
I don't expect truthful answers, BTW.