The Ark of the Old Covenant is in Ethiopia?

[TheAtheist]

I believe it’s an extrapolation of the biblical curses associated with the Ark: the plagues on the Philistines for plundering it and the death of Uzzah for merely touching it. I’ve been told by some Ethiopian neighbors that certain death would befall anyone who lays eyes on it unauthorized to do so, and that the authorized guardians all eventually die blind.

Well thank you both for the explication. You’ve definitely added a topic of conversation to my get together on Sunday - Ira’s wife is quite an enthusiast when it comes to her people’s history and her religion, may just have to get her to tell me a good tale or too.

So if your friend’s story is correct - the guardians of said box eventually die blind…

If that happened uniformly to every guardian… well that’s a reproducable pattern.

Which means prolonged contact with the box results in the same outcome…

Great… now there’s a part of me that feels like the next step would be to autopsy the guardians (assuming that the Ethiopian church doesn’t find that sacriligeous as well)…

Sorry my mind is literally front-loaded to try and come up with experimental verification (part of the job, much to the chagrin of my wife. )

Have a good evening both of you.

 

[Nelka]

2 Maccabees 2:5 And when Jeremias came thither he found a hollow cave: and he carried in thither the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.

 

[Brandon_Cal]

They have had several RHs, which inevitably aged-out when the real-estate needed remained unavailable.

If that bit of land was available to them they’d find a new RH, no problemo. They’ve got the world to find it in. There’s been a North American RH in the past.

ICXC NIKA.

As I understand it (and I’m more than willing to be proved wrong), red heifers are only available upon certain gene tweaking in utero, the product of which the Haredi do not deem a “legitimate” red heifer. They expect old school husbandry to produce one.

 

[7_Sorrows]

I have heard about the Ark being in Ethiopia for many years. there have been various shows about it. it is an interesting story.

 

[badnewsbarrett]

Maybe because outsiders (i.e., scientists) can get nowhere near it?

ICXC NIKA

I’m not a scientist, but…challenge accepted!

Seriously though, considering just how much precious cargo has been stolen from Egypt over the course of the past century alone, how in the world could anyone believe Ethiopia actually has exactly one priceless national treasure that they’ve protected from being seen- never mind from being stolen- all this time?

Of course it’s a hoax, they don’t really have it, if they did the thing would have been seen and stolen multiple times by now.