Did it happen exactly as it says in the bible?
Is it all just a pretty fairy tale?
Was it something similar to what's happened in England recently - immense localised flooding - which seemed to the people at the time that it was "world wide" and put down to God's wrath (people in secularised england today have been saying it was god's work - why not 3000 -odd years ago)?
If it is all just a fairy tale, does it still have some basis in reality - like the thai nursery rhymes that children would learn that told them to run to the hills when the seas receded (because a tsunami would be coming)?
Is it something else entirely?
2007-07-27 03:15:09 · 29 answers · asked by Alex 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Fairy tale.
And if it isn't, then it only serves to prove what a monster Joe Hovah is; and that we should be at war AGAINST him rather than bowing and scraping before him.
God throws a hissy-fit and murders the entire WORLD? You're saying that absolutely NO ONE could be redeemed, and that even infants and unborn fetuses were irredeemably EVIL? And even if that were the case, we know from the slaughter of the first-born of Egypt that Joe can do "surgical strikes" and murder exactly who he wants to -- why resort to such a sloppy method as a worldwide deluge?
And the best part is, ol' Joe decides to murder the world because man is "evil continually" (Gen. 6:5); then he promises that he would never do it again, FOR EXACTLY THE SAME REASON (Gen 8:21)!!!!
Where the HELL is the sense in that?!?!
2007-07-27 03:20:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Geologists have found the Great Flood traces in many rock formations throughout the world, so it did happen and since there was no way of writing down everything about the then situation, it was passed down through generations until it was written down. Just because it wasn't on the 6'oclock news, verified by scores of witnesses or written down immediately after the fact doesn't mean it can't be Truth.
2007-07-27 10:20:54 · answer #2 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was absolutely as the bible (God) says. It was world wide just as it says.
There is no ability to be half way on this or anything else in the bible. Religion is like math to me either you believe your religion or you don't believe at all. You don't believe in anything if you believe there are many right answers to one question i.e. 1+1=2 & 1 + 1= 3.
I am not trying prove Christianity it is a matter of faith but you either accept the bible or you believe something else or nothing at all.
2007-07-27 15:33:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Noah and the deluge is just a copy of the Sumerian tale of Utnapishtim and a world flood that is better in many ways. His boat was 4 times as big as Noah's, and he just took seeds of all things. It has been proven that Noah's Ark could not hold all the things needed; there is no geological evidence of any world flood; scientists have shown that there is only 30% or so enough water to submerge the tallest mountains under 15 cubits of water as Genesis says. Theree were flood on the Euphrates river, and a large one must have been the basis for the Sumerian tale told in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
2007-07-27 10:26:33 · answer #4 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
This question was asked yesterday.
Frankly, you're not the only one who's had flooding in modern times. No one else thinks it's God smoting them. Probably because they're 1) not stupid enough to think their little area of the world is important, and 2) knowledgeable enough to know that the story ends with a promise to never let it occur again.
The story of the flood is assumed to have happened because it is present in the myths of so many ancient middle eastern cultures, even from an entirely nonreligious standpoint.
2007-07-27 10:21:51 · answer #5 · answered by Schwarma 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is a true story not a fairy tale. Noah's Ark came to rest in in Mt. Ararat, mountains of present-day Armenia and eastern Turkey.
2007-07-27 10:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by onoscity 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It really happened.
You'll get so many replies saying it was a myth, a fairy tale, a man made story, but in truth, it comes from the Bible.
There is NO reason to doubt the Bible, nor its accuracy.
2007-07-27 10:35:02 · answer #7 · answered by Jed 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Doubtful. If the whole world flooded, where did all that extra water go? Also, we would have found sediment deposits and aquatic microbe fossils in rocks that are in landlocked places like Colorado for example. I like your idea that it was just severe localized flooding - that makes much more sense and indeed would seem like the whole world to those people because they did not know of anywhere else.
2007-07-27 10:19:46 · answer #8 · answered by Dan Theman 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
My personal opinion is that it is a myth based on an actual occurrence. I am fascinated by very ancient history and read quite a bit about archealogical finds. Many finds have supported a world-wide flood in very ancient times. I think we have this fact that has been passed down through many ages.
2007-07-27 10:19:14 · answer #9 · answered by Scoots 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There was a flood, HOWEVER, there was never a global flood as religious people claim.
We are aware that there are salt water fish and fresh water fish. Therefore, if there was a global flood fresh water fish would not exist.
Plus primitive man was not aware of the size of the earth and assume what was around them was the entire earth.
2007-07-27 10:23:50 · answer #10 · answered by independant_009 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋