Are there any Christians here?

Question

Are there any Christians here who 1) do not believe the story of the flood? Or 2) who do not get your "news" solely from the Fox Network?

Answer 1

I am christian and I believe God's Word and I get Fox News too

Answer 2

Hey can I answer, my hand is raised, oops, I don't believe in compulsary education, sorry.
The word Christian, is a real vague term, I believe in Scripture, Genesis through Exodus, I accept and love the Messiaha, And if I had to categorise myself, more towards a Nazarene/Judaic, I believe in the Torah Law and that it will stand at least until heaven and earth pass away, and that Messiaha taught this, read Matthew. I do not believe in tradition or legalism, ya, you guessed it; I do not fit into the church culture, they kick me out when I discuss Scripture. So if you choose to consider my view here, that's fine and if not that is fine as well. We are all creatures of free will.
#1) There are 2 Great Scriptural floods, so which are you asking if I believe in or not? I believe in both, although the flood of Noahs' time was to destroy all traces of the Seripheum mating with humans, so may not have been world wide, YHVH knew how far He had to flood to destroy the defiled blood lines.
#2) I don't watch Fox network, I read the news.
Is there any purpose to this query?
Shalom,
YHVH_clan

Answer 3

The earliest mention historically of a flood was in the epic of Gilgamesh on Akkadian cunieform texts, copied from earlier Sumerian ones. The story is the same except the birds are different, one is a dove the other a raven. So obviously anyone looking for Noah's ark in Turkey is wrong. They should be looking for Gilgamesh's ark in the Zagros Mountains.
I don't get Fox here just CNN.

Answer 4

1) As a Catholic, I believe that the story of the flood is true only if we read the way that it was meant to be read. For example, we read newspaper and song lyrics differently: when Dave Matthews sings "crash into me" he means something different from what the Times would mean if it reported someone had "crashed into" Dave Matthews. The Bible, too, contains all sorts of different kinds of writing, and almost none of them were written like newspaper articles.

Pope John Paul II spoke of Genesis as having a "mythical character" which expresses truth in a non-historical way. Myth is not meant in a negative way as if it were the same thing as "falsehood." "Myth" is meant as the name of a kind of literature, like "poetry" or "newspaper article." Pope Benedict also said that Genesis "represent[s] truth in the way that symbols do - just as, for example, a Gothic window gives us a deep insight into reality, thanks to the effects of light that it produces and to the figures that it portrays."

I think that the flood story is probably more like a myth than a newspaper article or an encyclopedia entry. In richly symbolic language, it expresses crucial truths about the sinfulness of human beings and the relationship between God's justice and mercy (mercy wins out in the end, by the way). I believe that this story, along with the rest of the Bible, is inspired by the Holy Spirit and that it is completely true - but true in the ways that a myth can be true, not the ways in a which a newspaper article is true.

2) Fox News gets on my friggin' nerves.

Answer 5

I do not like Fox news! Too slanted and biased for me! I like to watch other news stations. I am a Christian and I do believe everything the Bible says(including the flood) because it is the word of the Most High God!

Answer 6

LOL. I believe that the story of Noah's ark is symbolic, as there are flood stories told in practically every culture. I think the story is meant to teach us that if we follow God's will, even in the face of adversity, we will be rewarded. Even though The Bible teaches many good lessons about life, it is not a history or science textbook.

And by the way, I never watch Fox News. I'm a Headline News girl, myself.

Answer 7

Strictly and "internet news" gleaner. Get lots of edgy stuff from bloggers, along with mainstream and international news feeds. Fox is only one of the sources.

And I am absolutely certain of the Noah's Cateclysm (which some people misuse the word "flood" to describe). I'm pretty convinced that God hit earth with a small comet to do it. That's why all those mammoths are frozen standing up with food in their mouths. Can't come up with any other viable hypothesis.

Answer 8

i do not solely get my news from Fox I prefer BBC. Oh I believe in the story of the flood.

Answer 9

On the Fox Network thing - most of my news comes from the WSJ.

Answer 10

I think that is me. I should clarify that I believe the story of the flood is meaningful, though not a historical account. It is a very interesting story on the response of God to human evil.