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The Ark of the Covenant


I have a theory about this that I would like to discuss.
I watched a National Geographic program yesterday (yes, for someone who is a serious non-believer I watch a lot of biblical documentaries) about the search for it and something they said brought me to a conclusion that I want to run by you clever people.

The ark was never actually 'seen' by ordinary people. I don't know the Bible so I don't really know what they told the people about the box the priests were carrying except that it was covered in a cloth and people who touched it died or became ill enough to die eventually. But what if it was a lie, what if they came across a piece of uranium and because it killed a couple of people, or they broke out in sores or something, whatever it is that radiation does to you and then discovered that this didn't happen if you covered it with something else and didn't actually touch it. And when the inquisitive people among them did, it killed them adding to the superstition that it was 'given to them by God'.
Then when they built the temple in Jerusalem, they hid the box in the 'Holy of Holies' (is that the correct spelling) where no one ever went near it again because it was so scary but which they said to the people was by God's instruction. (You can tell a bunch of ignorant people anything as long as you add some mumbo-jumbo to the story - I know this I live in Africa. I have a set of little replica Egyptian gods on a shelf in my study which my domestic insists on dusting and manages to break at least one every time she does it, now she won't go near them because I told her they were gods and we protecting me, but I digress).
So there was this something they found in the desert, it seemed to have magical powers, they told the people God had given them this box in which to keep the Talmud and if anyone touched it they would die and for good effect they proved this by letting people actually die or get radiation poisoning from touching it.
Then after some time, first the Babylonians and then the Romans destroyed the temple and the Ark was lost. What if it is not lost but is still a piece of radio-active material lying somewhere under the Dome of the Rock and archeologists can't find it because they are looking for the wrong thing?

Just a theory thought it would make for an interesting discussion.

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A few years back it was meant to be found in the mountains of Turkey, need to search for the name actually
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I think you're thinking about Noah's Ark, that one has also been found to be incorrect.
I'm talking about the big golden coffin that my ancestors carried around in the desert and told all the people with them that if they touched it, it would kill them and apparently it did.
When Solomon built his temple, on the place where the Dome of the Rock now stands, they build a special enclosure for the Ark and only the high priests were allowed in its presence. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am that the thing was a piece of radio-active material enclosed and covered with a cloth.
I'd love to see what the rest of you have to say about this.
And I apologise for my irreverence, no slights intended, I told you. I think about these things and then blurt them out. Please forgive the old broad for being blunt.
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OOooh my misunderstanding then please accept my apologies. Can't say I have ever heard of what you mentioned before
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Every once in awhile I see a article on the front page of the tabloids about a African tribe that supposedly has the Ark of the Covenant in their possession. Never really looked into it though...

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Yes, the spoke to those people in Ethiopia who claim to be descended from ancient Jews, quite feasible because Haille Selassi claimed he was descended from them as well and if you look at them and the Somalis there is a distinct Semitic 'look' about them, but anyway, this group of priests have a temple that now one is allowed to enter, same story as that of Solomon's Temple, so no one can either prove or disprove that they actually have it. And again, it could be that they are hiding the original piece of radio-active material that I've been talking about.
This particular program discarded the theory of the Ark being there and went back to Jerusalem.
Another program I have on disc somewhere is called "walking the Bible". In this one, the narrator also went to that same temple in Ethiopia with the same things being said to him.
It's all very strange and we'll never really know what what happened to it because the Muslims completely refuse to let anyone dig in the grounds of the Dome.
The also said that the Knights Templar did some extensive digging there but didn't come up with anything.
My feeling is that if the thing was enclosed in wood, in the 2000+ years between Solomon building the temple and the Knights Templar, the wood would've disintegrated and possibly the 'radio-active' whatever it was, would have been covered in the ground where they were digging because they were looking for gold not a piece of uranium.
Just my thoughts, this is what you do when your life is one of quiet contemplation.
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In 587 BC, the Babylonians captured Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple built by Solomon where the Ark was stored. At that point, the Ark disappears from history.
That's all I know.. Would be a good study.

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Yes this is what I'm talking about. The Babylonians, the Romans and the Knights Templar were all looking for a huge golden casket containing the original Talmud scrolls.
But what if they did stumble on the thing that was hidden under the temple and what if what they thought was 'leprosy' which was very common at that time was actually radiation sickness and that was why a lot of people didn't catch it despite being in contact with infected people.
What if what they were looking for didn't actually exist in the first place. None of the ordinary people actually saw the 'Ark' they only saw the priests carrying a box covered in cloth. And the box wasn't carried on their shoulders but on a kind of 'litter'. What if the story of a great golden casket was put about to stop people touching the magical substance that killed them when they did. They even displayed this to inquisitive daredevils. There is a story of a man touching the blanket covering the Ark and dropping dead, which is what would happen if you touched uranium with your bare hands.
The people who first showed the Ark to the population, didn't show them the 'golden casket' only that the priests were carrying it. Can you imagine how mystified they would have been to come across a piece of 'rock' that killed you if you touched it and that made you really ill if you got too close to it. In those days everything that couldn't be explained was blamed on God.
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Interesting theory, Mo. That would explain the story about the guy dropping dead because he caught the ark before it fell on the ground. I always thought it was a bad plot line to have God get angry and kill this man for protecting His ark, but if someone actually did die because he touched what many people believed to be the ark, then I could see where they might get that idea.

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Exactly and it also explains why it can't be found - because it didn't exist in the first place - but that's another discussion.
And if the people in Ethiopia are protecting a piece of radio-active material you can understand why allowing historians and archeologists in to examine it would be extremely embarrassing, so they keep the myth alive by using religious fervor to keep people away from it.
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