The Bible hard to believe?

Question

I mean some stories are just to hard to belive, like Noah's Ark and the flood. Wouldn't the flood had left some geological evidence that it took event? For all you know it only took event on that area with those animals who habited there (which might have been all the animals of the world to them) and not only that but the other stories. Or maybe it's a guide to christian faith.

Answer 1

Faith is another word for "constantly wrestling with doubt."

If there is a confident faith ... then it probably is a suspicious faith.

Answer 2

You start very well.

Specifics about the flood story:
The flood stories are remarkably wide spread. Our ancestors certainly had observed fossils like shells and so on that were definitely of marine origin on mountain tops. It was only in the last two centuries that the understanding of how Mountains form became available. Before this understanding of geological processes happened there was no better way of explainig how mountains could have been under water than a great flood.
If you can understand just how little the people who wrote the Bible actually knew compared to what we have today then you start to see it in a different light.
The desert dwelling goat herders who wrote the Bible had the observed shells etc to tell them there was a flood, however they did not have the mapping or measuring to tell them that the mountains had been pushed up from below the oceans over time, instead of a flood. They were working to the best of their knowledge at the time.

Answer 3

You are correct in one point: the Noadic flood may have been a localized event. After all, those who lived through it only know that a huge area was flooded - right up to the top of Mount Ararat. Whether the flood was *truly* global or not is really *not* specified in the bible. (Really - - read the account).

Nevertheless, I believe that the bible is wholly true. It is *also* a guide to Christian faith. However, you would be hard-pressed to prove that anything in the bible is false.

Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 4

Well, Christianity is about Faith in what you may not see. And they found Mt Ararat where Noah's ark rested, as stated in the Bible. The Bible is a guide to Christian Faith. And it is by Faith that things were done in the Bible. I believe that the Word is true, I teach it at my church and to my children. I guess for anyone who does not believe in it they will find out at their death.

As a mother it is hard for me to believe that someone could "accidentally" forget their child is in the car and only realize it 8 hours later! But then again, the news is filled with many more hard to believe stories than the Bible will ever be! And many things written in the Bible and found to be unbelievable have recently been proven to be true! So, choose what you have faith in wisely!

Answer 5

It depends on how people look at it.

Some say, "God created all things in six days". What is time with God? For man and plant life a day is 24 hours. Noah is giving this time 40 days and 40 nights rain, 375 days in the ark.

So some say, God can do all creation in six 24 hour days, but Noah and the ark is not possible?

Gen.1:1,2 [ All exist and ages in time is evident ]; Gen.1:3-25; Job 38:4-7,30-32; The ages old earth is prepared ages to perfect for intended habitation to live forever with all perfect on earth.
The man/Adam looses eternal life and passes death onto his offsprings.
God does not wipe the whole mess out. God has power, so how does he use it?
He ends the violence by saving Noah and his family, and all he wants with them that will be on earth after the flood.
The life sustaining earth was sacrificed in the flood, all things have got to be made as new as before Eden, and eternal life will be restored for those that are for the new heavens and for those that are for the new earth. 2Pet.3:13;
Rev.21:1-5;

Answer 6

If you watch your news, every once in a while the scientists of this world are discovering where an ocean could have been, even way inland from any of our oceans as it is today. I will see if I can find one of those links for you. The flood really happened. just like God parted the waters of the red sea for the children of Israil to walk across. I read somewhere where evidence of Chariots was found at the bottom of the Red sea.

Now how could a chariot have gotten into the sea if someone hadnt been trying to cross it. The events in the Bible really happened. Even the scientists cant dispute this, because of fact findings.

Answer 7

The flood did leave evidence. The oceans we have today.

The earth was geologically different before the flood. There was a canopy of water around the earth's high in the atmosphere. This made the earth very warm as it kept the heat in to a comfortable temperature all over. The ground was watered by mists. When the billions of tons of water fell to the earth the weight compressed the basins of the seas making them deeper as the crust deformed under the pressure and this caused other areas of the crust to buckle up higher so mountains became higher. So before the flood mountains were not so high as they are post deluge.

All the water that fell is still here on earth but has settled into the basins it formed - hence we live in such a watery planet.

Some people will just dismiss this without much thought but every civilisation known worldwide has an ancient flood story. Coincidence? Yes because it happened worldwide.

Jesus Christ even gave further credibility when he said:

(Matthew 24:37-40) For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.  For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.

I wouldn't call Jesus a liar.

The Bible has remarkable knowledge that nobody in those times could of possibly possessed by themselves. Yet all knowledge is given is credited to God.

People will debunk the Bible yet without a single study of it's authenticity. They are smug in not knowing what it is they shove away from themselves.

Don't be fooled with sites with shakey "science" which offer explainations to water down the deluge (pardon the pun) but offer no real data to back this up.

Answer 8

particular, the bible is quite achieveable in case you assume god to be genuine. yet whilst not, then the bible has too many ridiculous memories to stand as evidence of god. You declare that areas of the bible are allegories or metaphors. not anybody is of an identical opinion with you. Many Christians think of each understand the bible is literal certainty. Which view is genuine? does not that remember on which assumptions you're making approximately god? Which assumption is genuine? How do you show your assumptions are suited? i think of the only reason we, at present, locate the tale of Jonah so outstanding is that all of us comprehend extra approximately whale biology and digestion in many cases. back whilst the tale originated, human beings did not comprehend that plenty. they won't have been purposefully mendacity, yet might have quite believed that residing in a whale become achieveable. Or, with the aid of the ordinary information of the time, the tale become achieveable sufficient. Who is acquainted with. yet that, and a great style of memories in the bible, are in basic terms stressful to have faith without the theory god exists.

Answer 9

I am not supposed to comment upon the Holy bible, it could be offensive to Christian people...However I can express what I believe to be the truth of it: undoubtedly the stories in a bible are highly ethically educational, there could be no doubt of that...We might claim it is some kind of moral and ethic law accepted by good intended people, which one might say even for the Koran and the holy books of other religions and of course it is a guide to christian faith as you mentioned...

Answer 10

Even to many who are not skeptical by nature it becomes impossible to believe once it's fallacy is pointed out by others who bothered ... Science just has too much integrity and good standing to fall to the vain accusations of the unscientific faithful . If it were up to me the first commandment would be thou shalt not take the facts in vain before fallacious preachers.

Answer 11

O_o not only hard to believe, BUT CONFUSING....
First there's the Old Testament, then the New Testament....
Then a question of accuracy from centuries of hand-written copies before the printing press, THEN there's a question upon whether the stories were suppose to be literal or metaphorical....THEN the contradictions and fallacies and the stolen ideas....