If there was a universal flood as described in bible, why didn't hindus or buddhists mention it anywhere?

Question

Sure they should have definitely noticed..LOL

Or was it just mean't for christians? :-)

rocc_carna, so you need faith for being drowned in a universal flood caused by omnipotent god?... LoL.. I know how to escape it then...

LoL@Christians submitting answersingenesis... you asking liars to pass judgement for their imprisonment?

Some kids mentioned Quran mentions it!!!...WOW!!.. Well not so wow.. I asked about Hindus and Buddhists who don't believe Quran.. you fools

Answer 1

Maybe because the Bible is a lie.....what do you think?

Answer 2

Because the Bible was written with a regional context. Its authors and editors had no knowledge of East Asia. To them, the flood that occured from the Black Sea in XXX, which is probably the basis for the biblical flood, encompassed the whole world.
Not to mention it wouldn't have served the fable's narrative purpose to have wiped out the population of the entire Middle East and left millions of people still in East Asia (and Africa, Europe, Australia, and North and South America).
However, Hindu texts to mention a great flood, as do most other religious mythologies and ancient regional histories. Although the commonality of the event does not mean there was a worldwide flood recorded by many cultures, it clearly means that the notion of a great flood is a very basic element that can serve a convenient narrative purpose in mythology of this sort.
Imagine what someone living thousands of years ago would have made of the recent tsunami or the Mississippi Valley floods of the early 90s. It is easy to see a primitive worldview interpreting such a deluge as a worldwide phenomenon from their perspective.

Answer 3

The great Flood is mentioned in the literature of the Hindus and in the Buddhist. If you didn't read it, or if you asked someone who doesn't know, doesn't mean it was never mentioned. Go to a Public library and ask someone to give a lead where to look; you will find it there.

Answer 4

My answer would be that it was a local flood, which is why only Middle Eastern religions mention it (it is referenced by the Babylonians, and a few other Middle Eastern civilizations). The European, East Asian, Australian aboriginal & Native American legends don't mention it because it didn't happen all over the world, just in the Middle East.

The "Bible is Literally True" crowd would have it that those other religions are false, and their tradition is just myths, so why should they have true things in it? You wouldn't expect to find truth in false mythology. Sigh. God said it. We believe it. End of Story.

Sad, ain't it?

Answer 5

Noah was born and lived before Abraham who had the sons Ishmael with his concubine Hagar which through his bloodline the Muslim faith began. Issac, with Sarah, turned into Jacob and all those guys.

If you read Gensis (and Exodus), instead of jumping to conclusions as many of the answers above did, you would quickly discover this. Instead we just LOVE to claim that we can disprove a religion that has existed for 2,000 years and pre-dates our existence without doing any research and leaning merely on our own pride. Our dispositions are pathetic.

Anyway, the other religions would not have recorded this because they had not begun recording yet and if they did, it would have been an inherited story.

Answer 6

Hinduism does have the flood story. In fact it is said, by scholars, to be oldest version of the story. The story was then spread from Hinduism to Zoroastrianism (Zoroaster is mentioned in the Vedas and described as a guru, unorthodox and perhaps even a renegade, but a guru). It is the Zoroastrian Persians that introduced the idea of the dove. It says that Yima releases a dove to see how low the waters have ebbed. The Sumerians then adopted the story, followed by the Babylonians and eventually the Jews. In fact, the story of a great flood seems to be the one universal mythological story found in almost all religions. Buddhism, of course, is a religion that came out of Hinduism (Buddhism and Jainism both emerged as seperate dharmic religions from Hinduism around the same time, Sikhism and Ayyavazhi are also latter dharmic religions that emerged from Hinduism, too).

It comes from the Matsya Purana, a very old sacred text (almost as old, in fact, as the Vedas and the Upanishads). The story goes as followed.

Long ago a man named Manu was bathing in a river when he accidently cupped a small fish in his hands. The fish begged him to take him home because a river full of hungry big fish was not a safe place for a tasty little fish.

So Manu agreed and took the fish home and put it in a bowl of water, but it quickly outgrew its new home. So Manu transfered the fish in a larger container. Again and again the fish outgrows its home and Manu transfers the fish into another container. Okay, so eventually the fish has outgrown all containers and so Manu realizes that the fish is now so large that it will be very safe in the sea. So he goes to release the fish and once at the ocean the fish thanks Manu for his kindness. Then the fish warns him that very soon the entire planet is going to be destroyed in a flood. He tells Manu to build a boat and put two of every kind of creature into it and seeds of all types and that he'd better hurry.

So Manu quickly does as the fish as said and soon enough the flood happens and blankets the entire world with raging waters. The fish reappears days later with a horn on its head this time. The fish tells Manu to tie the rope around his horn and so Manu does and the fish then tows Manu to safety of a nearby mountain. When the waters subside, Manu sets the animals free, plants the seeds, and repopulates the world. Manu is said to be the 'first human'...take a look at the word hUMAN or MANU...the race of man, mankind.

Anyways, the story makes it clear that Manu had figured out, when told to build the boat and about the flood, that the fish was God himself come to save humanity from total destruction. In Hinduism the aspect of God that is said to do this is Vishnu: Preservation. Matsya is one of the many avatars or incarnations of Vishnu. Now it's important to remember that in Hinduism there is only one God. The many names, forms, etc that are in temples, in stories, that people call God by or use to focus their mind in prayer and meditation and worship are all just the many sides of the one God. "There is only one God, but humanity calls him by many names." Rig Veda 1:164.46. So while the story says Vishnu or Matsya...it's all God, just one of the many names of God!

The story changes, if you look through all the other stories, little by little from Hinduism to Zoroastrianism, to the Sumerians, to the Babylonians, to finally the story of Noah found in the Bible. It's all the same type of story, but elements are changed to fit within the context of the culture and religion of the people retelling the story.

The 'universal flood' seems to be a universal story found in all cultures and religions. Those religions, like Buddhism and Jainism, that emerged from Hinduism do retain the story but they don't really focus much on it.

Answer 7

If there was a universal flood as described in bible, why didn't hindus or buddhists mention it anywhere?


Who said they were around then? the only servivors were Jewish. Noah's line became Israel.

Answer 8

Actaully, it IS mentioned in the Quran.

But still, its widely believed that the "world flood" was a flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers...that WAS the entire world of Noah (or Gilgamesh in the Quran).

Answer 9

They do! There is flood mythology in almost all cultures. I believe the bibles account is the accruate one. Anyway, there are flood legends everywhere.

And, if you don't want to believe the different legends, all you have to do is look at Geology and the sedimentary rock (what does sedimentary mean after all???). You can see evidence of a global flood everywhere.

Answer 10

first there are fossels at the top of mt everest. this is evidence in the worl for the flood. those other teachings are faulse. how would they know about it. the flood was long before these inventions came about. fairy tales! ask Jesus into your life and be born again by the power of the Gospel (an actual real life event in your real life) if you do this in a prayer sincerely God will answer you!

Answer 11

Because Noah, his family, and the animmals were the only ones to survive. None of them were Hindu or Buddhist.