If the global flood is in all religions...?

Question

Then how do you know that it was the flood of Noah ie Christian God as opposed to any other ancient religion at the time?

This is not a "Did the flood occur" question, its "If the flood is in "alot" of other cultures and religions why do Christians use it as evidence of their side? Even if it is in only one other religion how is it not that their god did it and not yours?

Yeah so I realize it was Jewish scholars that "recorded" the flood. But it still was the christian god, if you are christian.

Answer 1

The majority of modern Biblical scholars accept the thesis that the Biblical flood story is linked to a cycle of Assyro-Babylonian mythology with which it shares many features. The Mesopotamian flood-myth had a very long currency—the last known retelling dates from the 3rd century BC. A substantial number of the original Sumerian, Akkadian and Assyrian texts, written in cuneiform, have been recovered by archaeologists, but the task of recovering more tablets continues, as does the translation of extant tablets.

Answer 2

It's not in all religions. The Egyptians, who lived in the desert, never mentioned such a large oversight as flooding of the world. The Aztecs did not have records of a flood until after Christian missionaries entered the region.

Geological evidence points out that in many of the areas that DID believe in some form of Deluge or "Flooding that Reached the Heavens" experienced a large, but not global, flood at their neighboring rivers at some point in their history.

There is no evidence to support the Great Flood that cannot be explained by other, more rational, occurences.

Also, the in the case of Noah, there is no explanation as to how an olive tree could survive under water for 40 days and 40 nights with no carbon dioxide, oxygen, sunlight (as there could not be enough sunlight to travel the depths of the water in such a storm) and lack of anchoring such a flood would cause (any tree would be washed away in such an event). At the time the Bible was written, it was not known that trees needed to breathe air like land animals do.

These storied are exaggerated tales of major local flooding.

Answer 3

There are over 300 cultures that claim their ancestors were 8 people that survived a global flood. Religion has nothing to do with it.

Answer 4

The reason God chose the Jews as His record keeper(oracles) was they were so ,to the point of obsessive compulsiveness,stict on keeping the records straight and unchanged.(You are mixing the Jewish scriptures with Christian)Noah was recorded by Moses from Jewish oral tradition handed down.

Answer 5

There must have been a huge flood sometime. The men who made up the bible had to get it in somehow because the event was widely known. So they invented Noah and decided to use it to instill fear and thus retain control over the weak minded sheep.

Answer 6

The epic of Gilgamesh and other contemporary texts are obviously alluding to the same localised flood as the one in Genesis.

Answer 7

It's not in "all" religions. It's in "some" religions.