There are many stories concerning the Arc of the Covenant. What do you believe happened to it? Is it still hidden some place or was it destroyed?

One line of thinking is it is believed to be located in Africa.

An arc is a curved line.

The ark of the covenant no longer exists. There's no need for it. It served out its usefulness.

Not according to Jewish law/custom.

Not according to Jewish law/custom.
Theirs is a belief, not the reality.

An arc is a curved line.

The ark of the covenant no longer exists. There's no need for it. It served out its usefulness.

Do you have proof it no longer exists?

Do you have proof it no longer exists?
The need to prove falls to those who believe it exists.

The need to prove falls to those who believe it exists.

But you do believe it exists. And has either been dismantled or destroyed. Do you have anything that points to that?

Here is one link to the Africa reference.

Sacred Sites of Ethiopia (http://sacredsites.com/africa/ethiopia/sacred_sites_ethiopia.html)

Some say it is still hidden underground somewhere under what is now the Dome. To others it is in Ethiopia. Some believe it would have been captured and destroyed in one of the many raids.

And of course there are millions of things in vaults in the Vactican.

If it's brought into the daylight, then what?

450donn,
That's a matter of speculation.
Some say it is in a much guarded Stone Tabernacle in Africa.
Some say it is still hidden somewhere in the many sealed vaults under the temple floor which is now the top of the temple foundation on temple mount.
Some say that it was taken by the Romans along with much else of great value and shipped to Rome but that ship sank way out at sea.
Peace and kindness,
Fred

And do you actually believe that God would allow such an important and powerful treasure to be destroyed? Is YOUR God that small?

And do you actually believe that God would allow such an important and powerful treasure to be destroyed? is YOUR God that small?
Yes, passively permit, but it wouldn't have been God who destroyed it. He created man with free will to destroy the Ark, or maybe it got destroyed somehow by Mother Nature. Why is it "an important and powerful treasure"? To what end?

Indiana Jones found it in the first move "Raiders of the lost Ark".

It's in a warehouse in Ciro.

Just to lighten the mood. ;) :p

Hey I know this one.Indiana Jones found this and the US government took it and put it in that big warehouse .

It's in a warehouse in Ciro.
Indy found it in The Well of the Souls in Tanis in the Nile delta near Cairo, Egypt. The movie ended showing a big box (inside of which was the ark) being stored in a warehouse in Washington, D.C. (Information was provided to me [from Indian Jones: the ultimate guide by James Luceno] by my autistic son who remembers everything he reads.)

NEWS FLASH! Daniel remembered the ark showed up in an Indy sequel and was in Hanger 51 in a Nevada warehouse (NOT in Washington, D.C.).

I should have waited for him to remember the entire sequence of events before I posted. He confirmed this information by consulting the Indy ultimate guide book.

Indiana Jones found it in the first move "Raiders of the lost Ark".

It's in a warehouse in Ciro.

Just to lighten the mood. ;) :p


Not all that "funny" back in the day, I was allowed into one of our government storage facilities, you could not see the other end, and it was sort of like the movie, rows and rows of things boxed.

Not all that "funny" back in the day, I was allowed into one of our government storage facilities, you could not see the other end, and it was sorta like the movie, rows and rows of things boxed.
But all properly labeled and inventoried, of course.

450donn,
God has given free will to man and therefore very seldom interferes directly with that.
So it is possible that some man or men MAY have destroyed the ark or allowed it to sink with the sea going ship.
In that case it may someday be recovered.
Much archeological activity is going on in the Mediterranean Sea.
Peace and kindness,
Fred