Are Christians aware of the many different Flood stories which are similar to the Noah flood story?

Question

The Epic of Gilgamesh predates the old testament by about 2000 years...now either the bible writers are story thieves or all the many flood stories besides the Noah flood are works of Satan trying to deceive christians and jews..

If you dispute the other flood stories, please provide some proof (other than words in a book) which shows that these other stories are in fact lies or works of satan meant to decieve.

Oh yes...flapping lips merely saying that the other stories are devil works is not proof of anything, except ignorance and fear in the closed minds of some.

Answer 1

If they are not aware, they should be. Many different cultures have a written story of a great flood, a man who built a large vessel and gathered his family and the animals onto the vessel. Heavy rains fell and the whole of the land was flooded.

Don't quote me but I believe the oldest known text of this story is written in Phoenician (spell check) and it was written something like 2500 years before the Bible.

Similar text describing this event has been discovered in all continents and in multitudes of languages. This suggests the event was real. It doesn't prove it was sent from God but it is tangible evidence in a historical sense that there was a great flood.

Archeologically, the biblical area where Noah (or Gilgamesh) (again, check spelling) lived shows to this day visible evidence of a major flood of the region which may have been "the known world" at the time of the event. The severe rains (extraordinary even during the rainy season) may have caused a break in a natural land barrier which caused the actual flood.

Scientists have proven that there could not have been enough water (even if both polar ice caps melted) to flood the entire surface of our now known world. It is more probable that a large regional flood took place. Remember, we are tallking about a period in time when "the world" was not really known to humankind. Also, in the texts it states "the whole of the land" was flooded. Later interpreted to mean the "world".

Answer 2

I happen to think that other flood stories are proof that there was indeed a flood in the days of Noah. These other stories exist because of people used to pass info down through the generations orally. People with different beliefs would change the stories to fit there beliefs. That is most likely where these other flood legends came from. Remember that every one alive today is a decendant of Noah.

Answer 3

If the whole world flooded (and it did) wouldn't it make sense that other cultures would have a similar tale?? I've studied history, I have a degree in history, and I studied this in some of my clases. Historically, God told this to Moses after it all happened, as a father might tell stories to his son after the fact, if my dad tells me a story about world war 2 for example, does it mean that world war two didn't happen until 2006? No, it doesn't. My question is, if certain flood stories predate the bible by 2,000 years, how did they survive the flood??

Answer 4

Even if they are aware of them, the question would be how do they think any of those people survived? The flood stories are all over the world, and in those stories are depictions of how some of the peoples had actually built boats to survive (it wasn't an all exclusive Jewish fable). So I guess we could conclude from this that there were several Noah's.
As a Native American I can tell you that story has passed down through our generations, and hey...we didn't even know who or what Satan was.

Answer 5

Yes. Good research work.

Thus it is a fact that flood did exist. But many remains as myth, as they were not properly recorded (some actually did, and the record also can be found in China, proper royal records).

For many years, historians always said there is no such things as a world wide flood, only regional flood. But the stories of flood from many regions proof that world wide flood did exist.

And soon follows, (after the tower of Babel), the people travels with them to other parts of the world with this story, and thus it becames stories of flood.

To me, it affirm me that the Bible is once again proven to be truth.

Answer 6

Yes, many Christians are familiar with other flood stories like the Epic of Gilgamesh. Is this a problem for the faith or evidence for the veracity of scripture?

Answer 7

You want to feel GOD's love really bad, huh? You do not know too much, huh? Because the entire WORLD was flooded in NOAH'S time. There is no other time the entire world was flooded.Because after GOD did a good job. He provided a rainbow. So folks like you will ALWAYS KNOW THAT GOD IS BIGGER THAN YOU AND YOUR THOUGHTS!( and to let you know that he will not destroy the earth again by WATER BUT by FIRE!!!! Hey ya know what. Since you are struggling with your weary mind. Ya know it's easier to feel GOD'S love....when you forgive others. Especially the several close people that has hurt you DEEP. Try it ...it WORKS!!!

Answer 8

I saw a story on the Discovery channel once about an Egyptian who was to have had a flood experience. I watched it with interest, then kind of forgot about it until you brought this up.

HOWEVER.... when I think of the story of God sealing Noah and his family safely in the ark, and I see the parallel between that and God sealing Christians safely into eternity with Him, protected from death while sailing through the storms of life, I feel peaceful and happy.

See the difference?

Answer 9

Of course we are familiar with those accounts. Why does that add up to "thieves"? Rather, could it be, that those are simply oral accounts (handed down through generations) of the same event? I suspect you are suggesting that accounts like the Epic of Gilgamesh detract from the Genesis account. I don't think it detracts at all. Rather, it shows the same basic story, from a watered down word-of-mouth passage of time perspective. Where is the problem?

Answer 10

Yes. There are many references to a great flood in varying religions! Most predate Christianity. It just shows that nothing is new anymore.