Did you know that according to Greek stories that Zues had a flood too?

Question

Zues was so sickened by mans greed that he decided to wash the world with flood. He asked Ducelion to build an arc to survive the human race...

I said there was no God or that this proves it. I believe in lots of Gods. Please don't make me say something I am not

And second of all, I was just stating a did you know thing. I just thought it was interesting is all! You people have GOT to stop jumping down people's throat. I am not disproving anything. It was just something cool I read! And as far as my mispelling chill. It happens.

Answer 1

That was amazing to me to, being a history buff. In learning that all pagan cultures as well as all recorded ancient history has a flood story. Do you know the word in China script for flood is a boat with 8 human figures in it? They are not Christians. So it has nothing to do with the bible.
The bible speaks of a time when the continents were divided? Genesis 10:25 They are just now learning that at one time the continents divided. They were going back to examine that text. I mean exactly what did it mean?
They are saying just now that this was not a small local event.
But a world altering cataclysmic event. Sea shells are on the tops of mountains. Left there thousands of years ago. In diggings, their are finding them. How did they get there?

It was at one time thought of as an Asteroid hitting the earth that caused this flood and it might have been we don't know what God used or the bible speaks of water vapor clouds that kept tons of water above the earth.
It would explain woolly mammoths frozen in time with tropical plants still in their mouth. Like it was a climate changing immediate thing. Not a long term series of events thing.
The tons of water would alter the rock strata and make it virtually impossible to know just how long they had been there.
Was it age or compression?
So some long held beliefs are now in question. May have to change history books.

Answer 2

Contrary to another answer here, the flood legends of all these different cultures do NOT match up chronologically. They were very likely local floods that became legendary. Realize that without any 'surveying' kind of technology, the furthest one could see was about seven (iirc) miles before hitting the horizon. Therefore, any flood that was at least that big in 'diameter' appeared to be a 'global' flood.

Just like if you were ignorant of how the Earth looks, you would think the whole world was water if your first contact with it was being dumped into the middle of the Atlantic. These old cultures had a habit in general of extrapolating what happens to them to the whole world, and to be fair to them, a decent-sized local flood DOES look like a global flood to the untrained (and uninformed) eye.

This explanation is exponentially more satisfying than the idea of a global flood, which is both completely without evidence of it having ever occurred, and scientifically impossible (there's simply not enough water on Earth, for one).

Answer 3

True, and the pagan myths are much more interesting than the boring Biblical story with it's desert tribal taboos.

These myths are common in the Mediterranean region because floods were common and there appears to have been a regional flood that inspired many of the stories.

But as far as the Global Flood nonsense that modern Christians have created, that stems more from illiteracy and ignorance than anything else.

Answer 4

Yes, the myth of a universal flood is common to almost every culture on earth. Parallels can be seen in China, North and South America, Polynesia, Mesopotamia, etc.

The flood of Deucalion was dated to the eruption of Thera, and may have been rooted in history. The flood of Noah incorporated many allegorical themes drawn from the universal flood myth - but Noah's flood was also a local flood that hit southern Mesopotamia around 2500 BC.

Answer 5

Yes, yes! OF Course.
But KNOW THIS: Look at history as in WHO told this great story first? It is just a PLAIN and SIMPLE clear understanding that satan is in these pagan beliefs, for it is him who started them in the hearts of those who went away from YHVH. The Biblical Account of the FLOOD is the only true account; if you want to look at it from a timeline.

Likewise; know that Zeus (not zues) was only a belief by peoples who HAD NO IDEA what was going on. Do a bit of research, and you will see how far fetched their "ideas" were in comparison to the HOLY BIBLE and the GOD of Abraham; Isaac; and Jacob...the GOD who breathed life into our souls, the GOD who set out "THE LAW" to bring order to chaos, and the GOD who already had lined up provision for our sins' atonement by JESUS CHRIST being present in the creation of this world, and in the making of Adam and Eve.
ANY other system of belief claiming differing versions of the kjv Holy BIBLE account; are MERE FABRICATIONS set forth by the enemy to CONFOUND the impotent of faith.
WORD TO THE WISER!!!~
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Answer 6

Many myths throughout the world speak of a sort of "great flood." The funny thing is, the event is spoken about as occurring around the same time in history. It leads me to think there was some sort of a great flood.

Answer 7

First off, it's spelled ZEUS.
Secondly, yes, in Greek MYTHOLOGY, Zeus flooded the world... but Greek Mythology was written after the original Noah flood took place. Back during that time, mythology stories came about as ways to explain things that have already happend.

Answer 8

Great! Just goes to prove as some have stated, it was world wide and not just local.
Now, perhaps you can explain all the different names attributed to God are differences in language, not proper names. God is a title, not a proper name. For example, Allah is Arabic for God, yet they think it is his name! Jehovah is his name!

Answer 9

Yes.

And your point is? I mean if the Bible were true then the flood would have happened before the time of the Greeks. Therefroe just a mock off of the real God, and flood. Which actually helps the Bible.

Answer 10

Yes. It's also in Gilgamesh, which was written in 2000 B.C.E. Scientists say that the Black Sea deluge apparently happened circa 5600 BCE.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_noah.htm