therefore ridiculous and pointless? He didn't have to save Noah when he could just make a new Adam and Eve. Ridiculous story, and based on an older Mesopotamian story as well, where the all details are the same as the later Bible story.
2007-09-22 03:34:20 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The ancients Greeks were more sensible. In their version Deucalion and Pyrrha float to safety in a wooden chest.
After the Great Deluge the animals are born anew from the mud.
The story is found throughout the ancient world. It was not meant to be a parable--the Great Deluge was treated as an historical fact by people of those times.
Presumably the Biblical ark was only believed to carry two each of all the domesticated animals -- cattle, donkeys, horses, sheep, etc. & not the wild animals.
2007-09-22 03:58:26 · answer #1 · answered by Thalia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always wondered where he, Noah, put all the fish.
I also wondered why God drowned all the young children, the infants and the women pregnant with absolutely innocent children.
Some people keep looking for the ark. If it ever existed, it's gone. Noah had to take termites too you know.
You're right. It's a story but no more ridiculous than any other and perhaps less pointless than many.
2007-09-22 10:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by jack of all trades 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't have any problem with God warning Noah of an impending cataclysm. And Noah preserving some of the Lifeforms in his area. I doubt he gathered beings from the whole World, as we know taking some out of their natural environment can cause harm to other forms of Life.
So the legends of the flood from other parts of the World. And other good people being warned. Makes more sense.
I find it harder to believe that any time a natural disaster happens. People think it is Gods revenge!
2007-09-22 10:56:44 · answer #3 · answered by THE NEXT LEVEL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing that most thinking people realize is that the bible is not to be taken literally. Most stories in the bible are based on actual events but I think in many cases they are dramatized a bit for impact. The key is to look for the moral of the story and not dwell on the details.
2007-09-22 10:43:33 · answer #4 · answered by James H 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If people would have just listened to Noah and God the ark would have had people on it ,instead of animals. It's about Trusting God.
GOD BLESS
2007-09-22 10:44:46 · answer #5 · answered by TCC Revolution 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a test for Noah, he and his famly were the only ones who believed in God.
2007-09-22 11:03:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because noah asked god to punish his ppl because they didnt fallow his religion only the few ppl who were believing in him who got on the ark & there is a point of god but i forgot it
2007-09-22 10:44:30 · answer #7 · answered by husshuss 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what about all the micro organisms did thet go in 2 by 2 the bible did tolkien write it?
2007-09-22 11:33:06 · answer #8 · answered by WAYNE R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe just for the story !?
2007-09-22 10:45:19 · answer #9 · answered by martinmm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋