The story of the flood is a true story, described in the literature of many nations. Noah survived it, and tiny handsful of others apparently did as well, but not many. Whether or not the flood and the events surrounding it were visited upon the Earth as punishment for sin I don't have an opinion. The one thing it might plausibly have been a punishment for to my thinking would have been man himself beginning to learn how to re-engineer living forms and misusing the skill to devise things like chiggers, ticks, and biting flies. There is no reasonable way to believe that a loving God created those kinds of things. But that's just a guess, I wasn't there.
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But that's just a guess, I wasn't there.
Noah survived it, and tiny handsful of others apparently did as well, but not many. And in the Bible it states that ONLY Noah and his family survived...
The story of the flood is a true story
This guy does have something of a point: if you have a lot of documents from separate cultures describing the same thing, then it is likely that something similar to what is in those documents did happen. Now given, the flood probably didn't happen on the epic level as described in the lore preserved in those documents, as folk-lore does have a tendency to exaggerate things.
The story of the flood is a true story would have been man himself beginning to learn how to re-engineer living forms and misusing the skill to devise things like chiggers, ticks, and biting flies.
Yeah, right. Even if someone had wanted to do such a thing, no ancient culture in the world had the ability to do so. Ancient humans were by no means stupid, and a lot of cultures were far more advanced than we seem to think. But only in a relative sense. In a sense that some cultures had gunpowder, glass windows, or a crude form of running water, not genetic engineering or the ability to create life. That's pure fantasy.
But that's just a guess, I wasn't there
No, you weren't. And it would be more accurate to call your "guess" wishful thinking.
icebear, you don't know jackshit about anything, dude.
I like how icebear's idea of a terrible beast that even God wouldn't DARE create, that only humans in their overwhelming GREED and CORRUPTION and SINFULNESS would ever stoop to bearing, is a fly . That bites.
If some others survived, the Bible is contradicted, again. Try not to be literal, and you´ll have an easier life.
"...chiggers, ticks, and biting flies. There is no reasonable way to believe that a loving God created those kinds of things."
"All Things Dull And Ugly" from Monty Python's Contractual Obligations Album
Just because the bible writers STOLE this story from older Pagan myths, like the story of Gilgamesh, doesn't prove it's real. Someone on another board worked out all the stats. It's a geologican/climatolical FACT the flood could NEVER have happened on a worldwide scale. Local flood, sure. NOT worldwide. Where did all that water come from and go afterwards? Not earth's poles--look at global warming predictions. For that matter, look at the size of the ark. Where did this bozo put all the BILLIONS of animals and creatures?
No major flood is mentioned in the historical records of China, India, or Egypt, during the time-frame attributed to the flood in Genesis. I'll take real-world evidence, thank you. So there.
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