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2006-12-01 04:37:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think it's the "source"....I think it's the INSPIRATION.
I find it hard to believe that a god told this random guy a flood was coming and to build an ark...etc. etc. etc.
Whoever wrote about the "great flood" probably got inspired by the tsunami, and just went to town. It's a great story after all...fairy tale.
2006-12-01 04:40:54 · answer #1 · answered by Heck if I know! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. The Bible very clearly says that God caused it to rain.
Genesis 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
The great flood didn't just destroy Israel. It destroyed every living creature on the face of the earth. Read further:
Genesis 7:17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. 18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet. 21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
This was more than a mere isolated tsunami.
2006-12-01 12:53:12 · answer #2 · answered by Pamela 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think it's accepted that there have been several "great floods" or Tsunamis as the result of seismic activity etc. Some ancient natural disaster is the origin of the myth in different cultures but there has never been anything like the biblical universal flood.
2006-12-01 12:41:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some believe that the Flood was a indictor and catalyst for a broad geo/climate change
2006-12-01 12:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by sdr35hw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that this happend after the great flood, but it was a very interesting read. Thanks
2006-12-01 12:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by sea_of_fire_and_dreams 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Possible.
2006-12-01 12:47:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holy cow. And that crazy drunk, Noah, got lucky.
2006-12-01 12:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no such event occured
2006-12-01 12:43:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋