Should the whole Noah's Ark story be thought of as littoral?

Answer 1

Literal? No.

Answer 2

Virtualy all ancient cultures a great flood story. This does not in any way indicate there was a world wide flood. For humans to establish permanent settlements they need a predictable food source, so they need agriculture. The most fertile soil is always where a river deposits sediment. So as a result all ancient cultures were established on flood plains! Guess what, if your civilization is built on a flood plain, you're going to experience floods.

When people lived in small societies their town was their world. Most were never even aware of the existance of other peoples. We're talking about a bunch of famers who probably lived their entire lives without ever traveling more than a couple miles from the house they were born in. So when the once-in-a-hundred-years flood hits and floods the whole town, it was nothing less than the destruction of their world.

Life spans in these societies were only about 30-45 years, so when one of these great floods hit, it was unlikely anyone alive had ever seen its like before. They could only compare it to the stories their father told them about the flood that happened when his father was a child. Stories that are told and retold generation after generation without being written down tend to get exagerated. Thus, unwritten history passed on by word of mouth becomes legend and myth.

What would people have said of the flood that destroyed New Orleans if none of them had ever ventured outside their own neiborhood?

Answer 3

Why don't people who claim that flood as true, because many other cultures have a flood story seem to understand that it is not really a flood story but a story of humankind's fear of being annihilated. There is one in every ancient culture, they may not be about floods but there is s story of the destruction and survival of mankind. The story was never meant to be taken literally.Besides the flood story of Utnapishtim is a far superior piece of literature.

Answer 4

I don't understand the question. "Littoral" means "coastal." Are you referring to the maritime virtues of the ark? OH, did you mean "Literal"?

Answer 5

Literal - Yes! Why is it so hard to believe? God actually told the people of that time how to live their lives the correct way but they decided to disobey him just like Adam and Eve and they were drunks, whores, adulterers,etc. and ungodly. They were so bad that God had to almost start over - he gave us yet another chance through Noah and his family. There is no harm in believing the flood was real. I wonder why the scientists and such, work so hard in trying to prove bible writings to be fictitous.

Answer 6

LOL...nice play on words. (you notice most responders don't know littoral refers to the sea)

But, word play aside, it is of course neither literal or littoral.
It is a lovely folk tale borrowed from several other cultures who heavily influenced Jewish mythology.

EDIT: HAMMY. If you have a science teacher telling you things like that, he should have his teaching licence suspended, and be sent back for remedial science education himself....not religious dogma
Let me guess, you go to school in the USA?

Answer 7

Literal??? Gods no. There's a reason it's called MYTHology. Because they're myths. Not real. Unfortunately a lot of people don't understand the difference between truth and allegory.

Answer 8

Learn to speak English -- it literal, not littoral

Answer 9

Of course! If it is in the Bible..........you can rely on the fact that IT HAPPENED! There is all kinds of proof! I could cut and paste all day about the things they found that are considered proof. Of course, there is no proof according to the Godless. No matter how much exists, they will not believe anyway!

Answer 10

Littoral as in referring to the coast of an ocean or sea, or to the banks of a river, lake or estuary? How very droll... :-)

Answer 11

Littoral,no. Not even clittoral.