Christian Time line -kali Yuga agreement

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Mani said:

>>Would you similarly literally accept the

>>stories of Adam and Eve, the dating of the origin of the

>>world to 4004 B.C., etc., as in the Christian timeline?

>>I think not.

 

I think there was SOME beginning of importance at about 4004 B.C.

According to the Bible, there was a

flood roughly after 1000 years of the creation

(4004 BC) . That means the Biblical flood is around

3000 BC, after which, the

life on earth started again out of Noah's effort.

 

This time is comparable to beginning of Kali Yuga ( 3102 BC). Perhaps it is

more than a coincidence that this time matches with the

the Biblical time for post Noah world. In other

words, Bible belongs pretty much to the Kaliyuga, and

when some Christians say that the age of Earth is around

6000 years, they are probably referring to age of the present

Kali Yuga. In other words, what we call the Kali yuga, they believe as the

beginning of creation it self!

 

The flood episode is to be seen in the anceint books of

many a people of our world (Babylonian, assyrian etc

as referred to by Will and Ariel durant in their "Our

oriental Heritage" part of the story of Civilization), and

our own belief that after every Yuga there will be a (minor) flood.

Thus the Biblical and other cultures flood may coincide with

the flood after the Dwapara Yuga (which engulfed besides

other things, Dwaraka). End of Dwapara Yuga was 34 years after the

Mahabharatha war. We also know that Parikshit maharaja (the successor of

Yudhistira) witnessed the arrival of Kali. It would also appear that the

flood

in the Bharatha Varsha was not as severe as in the

Biblical lands and we lost only few coastal places and

retained all our previous culture. In other words, people

were around to tell of th eprevious Yugas. Thus we don't believe that time a

the beginning of world!

 

I am pointing this out so as to reconcile between the

numerous flood stories of th eworld and

coincidence with the beginning of Kali Yuga and the

Christian belief about the age of Earth.

 

-K. sreekrishna