Noah's Ark And The Flood Never Happened - Page 2

THEWAULRUS · 09-28-2006, 02:08 PM

some bible stories are originally not from the bible, like the ark...hundreds of years before its creation i think...

NeanderThal · 10-24-2006, 03:55 PM

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"Havingdone a lot of travelling, a lot of cultures mention a flood.........The Mayans have a flood in their creation story........
Then the aboriginals in Australia mention a flood, and the Ancient Chinese....

Fires, Floods, Earthquakes ect, of course, more than anything else, will be in the history of every culture... These are major events that still hit regularly all around the globe to this day.
To simple stone-age/bronze age "tribe" type peoples, (weather they be Africans, Chinese, Jewish, Indians or Aboriginies), many of these events would surely mean the near end of their "world" as "they" knew it, & would pass down those stories ....

THEWAULRUS · 10-24-2006, 05:12 PM

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Fires, Floods, Earthquakes ect, of course, more than anything else, will be in the history of every culture... These are major events that still hit regularly all around the globe to this day.
To simple stone-age/bronze age "tribe" type peoples, (weather they be Africans, Chinese, Jewish, Indians or Aboriginies), many of these events would surely mean the near end of their "world" as "they" knew it, & would pass down those stories ....

Exactly! And this is how the story of flood has probably come to life.

positronic · 11-25-2006, 06:17 AM

No way of telling what the world looked like back then. Based on the bible it was during the flood that lifespans dropped from the 900's to what is more normal for humans. As to why so many cultures have a flood story, the bible says that shortly after the flood everyone spoke one language and God ended up scattering them all over the earth and giving them different languages. Granted there is alot that God was said to have did but there is also alot of detail that would be unnecessary if someone were simply making up a story. I think that is a strong point of the bible, to point out all that God did that is not explainable along with all the Jesus did that is miraculous and tie it all together as God's plan. There really is no other collection of writing in any religion that gives so many details of miraculous events over such a long period of time with such a consistant goal of making man aware of God; to choose to accept him and do his will.

MickinEngland · 11-28-2006, 08:12 PM

Think outside the box, people :)
The Noahs Ark story may well be a metaphor where the rising floodwaters represent pressure to evolve spiritually or die..
Or maybe the floods represent the ocean of space in which the Ark (planet Earth) is floating?
Or think of the earth (Ark) as a DNA repository..

THEWAULRUS · 11-28-2006, 08:15 PM

I think this story is very straightforward and doesnt have that much of a mening like you jkust described behind it.You could be right...but it would make make more sense...besides who thinks outside the box?

MickinEngland · 11-28-2006, 08:35 PM

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....besides who thinks outside the box?

Christians do ;)
We have that zillion-mile stare..
"For we look at things unseen rather than the seen,for the seen are temporary,but the unseen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18 )

THEWAULRUS · 11-28-2006, 08:37 PM

Christians actually are the ones that dissalow most of important scientific research, not letting scientists think outside the box.

**George** · 11-29-2006, 12:24 PM

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Christians do

We have that zillion-mile stare..
"For we look at things unseen rather than the seen,for the seen are temporary,but the unseen are eternal" (2 Cor 4:18 )

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Christians actually are the ones that dissalow most of important scientific research, not letting scientists think outside the box.

Both very good points in their own right.

MickinEngland · 11-29-2006, 01:54 PM

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Christians actually are the ones that dissalow most of important scientific research, not letting scientists think outside the box.

Some stuffy fundie Christians might believe that way but not modern enlightened ones ;)
For example the guy who invented the camcorder deserves a medal because without him I wouldn't be able to enjoy Worlds Wildest Police Videos on TV..