What is it that draws us humans to gold?

I have a tungsten wedding ring, and the "heft" of it gives it a mystique...

 

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...and the top was displayed for some time before being installed and people were encouraged to jump over it so they could claim "I've jumped over the top of the Washington Monument..."

 

In Egypt, Egyptologists think that silver was more prized than gold. BTW, what is the proof that Egypt ever had Hebrew slaves who left?

 

From what I’ve read even most biblical historians say there was no Jewish captivity in Egypt.

However they note it may have been a story inspired by the real captivity in Babylon after the destruction of the First Temple and prior to being freed by Cyrus the Great which is an event historian agree beyond any doubt did indeed happen.

 

Faith, pure faith. They found the ark and that’s older than Egypt.

 

In my studies after the Hebrews left Egypt the Pharaoh left and later became King of Nineveh..
Where's that you ask? That's where Jonah ended up when the large fish spit him out
That's probably to deep for you guys

 

Jonah and the whale, a well known book.

 

"We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure."
Cortes

 

Who found the ark??? The one in KY?

 

The one on amount Ararat in Turkey. It was discovered a number of years ago and the Turkish government turned the area into a national park so no excavations can be performed.

One scientist, without any data to support him says it’s an unusual natural rock formation. That was in the 1990’s but more modern technology has disproved that. It’s buried but the scans of the area show it’s the size of Noah’s Ark.

 

This one?

 

That’s the general area.

 

Even gold couldn’t cure it . Gold only made the sickness worse.

 

Just ask the plains Indians in the 1870,s ...LOL

 

I don't think anyone has mentioned Gyges and Croesus yet. Gyges was king of the Asia Minor city of Sardis from 687 to 652 B.C. He and his son Croesus were the first to mint gold coinage. Gold was panned from a nearby river. In antiquity, Sardis was a large and wealthy city, the capital of Lydia. It is mentioned in the book of Revelation in the Bible (chapter 3, verses 1 to 6). It was a center of the cult of Cybele, a nature goddess...celebrations went beyond sexual orgies...and that's all I'll say about it here...the city was notorious for loose living, pleasure, luxury, and decadence. Under Emperor Julian the Apostate (361-363 AD) the city's spiritual deadness described in the Bible was manifested; it quickly returned to idol worship; the city was later destroyed to its foundations in 716 by Arabs. My point here is that gold, and wealth, if taken too far, leads to decadence and destruction...

 

Remains of Egyptian chariots have been found in the Dead Sea where it is thought that the Hebrews crossed.

 

Yes, that applies to me as well, meaning if I get gold fever, my only cure is to buy more gold!

 

Starve a cold, feed a fever, gold fever that is.