Religious rants

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. [29] And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. [30] And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. [31] And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."

This is kinda interesting to wonder. I wonder if God created being before adam. Im not a biblical scholar but thats something i wanna look into. Also i feel like there are parts we may be missing. "The Old Testament books were written well before Jesus’ Incarnation, and all of the New Testament books were written by roughly the end of the first century A.D. But the Bible as a whole was not officially compiled until the late fourth century, illustrating that it was the Catholic Church who determined the canon—or list of books—of the Bible under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. "

"Sumer was first settled by humans from 4500 to 4000 B.C., though it is probable that some settlers arrived much earlier." The kesh temple in sumeria was home to the worlds oldest religious text able to be recovered.

I feel like this is tricky as history is discovered once we find something buried by the past. We honestly could have things with held by political figures or simply not discovered yet. I feel like science and the bible work hand in hand. But there may be pieces of the puzzle missing. I dont wish to doubt the word of God, infact i still believe God created all of humankind. But i just wonder with all the oceans being unexplored with all the ground not dug up there could be stuff not yet uncovered. Fascinating.

Referring to what you said about the Vatican Archives. I really just believe it's a vault of records. If there are any "secrets" within, it's probably just things that would some how endanger the Church, a valid reason to keep them away from the people.

"Millions of pages of Vatican documents are now available. Many are lodged in various archives in Vatican City. Others are elsewhere in Rome. But not all of the Church's wartime archives are immediately accessible" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/what-vaticans-secret-archives-are-about-reveal/607261/