A Bunch of Reasons Why I Question Noah's Flood Story:

[tas8831]

Can you imagine trying to get an ancient people to tolerate gay people?

I guess Yahweh is not so powerful or influential after all, huh?

Look at the US 50 years ago and even now.

Yup - more religious back then. Looks like religion is the main culprit in this kind of hate.

 

[tas8831]

Christ knew there would be many wolves going after the sheep!

He said, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

Wow, so insightful. No.... human.... could possibly have known such things.

 

[tas8831]

Btw I may not be humble in saying this; although our church is very wealthy, there's never been a financial scandal and only the top 15 make any money. #1 makes $90,000/yr. He has to pay for transportation and he travels all around the world. He is 97 years old, very healthy, and a world-renowned physician.

Lots of money in religion.
Money corrupts.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Can you imagine trying to get an ancient people to tolerate gay people? Look at the US 50 years ago and even now.

How about giving them a commandment?

 

[SkepticThinker]

When I was explaining how God guides different people at their level, different groups have different capacities and the level of morality isn't a straight arrow in time.

So God's morality changes over time.
What good is it then, if God learns at the same speed as humans?

 

[SkepticThinker]

Cultures in ancient times were different in general from those of today. Therefore what was acceptable centuries ago, or milleniums ago, may not be acceptable today. But this is not to say that God did not work with those of a notably different mindset culturally than what we have today.

Which is exactly what we would expect if morality comes from human beings rather than from some God(s).

Thanks!

 

[Faithofchristian]

The waters receded, didn't they?

That still doesn't explain how the Isles of the Gentiles survived the flood of Noah's..

 

[metis]

That still doesn't explain how the Isles of the Gentiles survived the flood of Noah's..

They did the backstroke?

 

[robocop (actually)]

God does not create humanity ready to conquer the stars. He gives us a history as a gift to us and to give us an identity.

 

[robocop (actually)]

Also, atheists are a part of God's plan. God created atheism and loves atheists.

 

[robocop (actually)]

When I was attending UCLA I thought of myself as an atheist but then one day out of nowhere I just felt like I was being watched while I was walking by a really big building to the bus stop.

 

[YoursTrue]

Also, atheists are a part of God's plan. God created atheism and loves atheists.

God created atheism? Really? ?

 

[YoursTrue]

That still doesn't explain how the Isles of the Gentiles survived the flood of Noah's..

I don't see what the problem is. Look at the scripture that should explain it. There's more, but that's a start to undertanding it:
Genesis 10 -
This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.2The sons of Japheth:
Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.3The sons of Gomer:
Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.4And the sons of Javan:
Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites, and the Rodanites.a 5From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations."

Some people claim to be Christian, go to church, like their church, etc., but make fun of the Bible, right? I hope this helps to explain how these "isles" got inhabited. Perhaps you don't quite see that for some reason(?)

 

[metis]

Some people claim to be Christian, go to church, like their church, etc., but make fun of the Bible, right?

I don't believe you have that right. Instead, maybe look at it as some of us don't believe the Bible is inerrant and somehow wasn't influenced by the culture it emerged from. However, that doesn't mean nor imply that it's trash or anything close to it.

Serious theology is to not assume things, thus certainty is the enemy of any serious theology. Plus, I would suggest that the Holy Spirit was and is at work within our faith, plus I believe that God's spirit was the impulse for the authors of the Bible to tell what they saw and/or came to believe.

IOW, God's Spirit was here long before the Bible was written-- so I believe.

 

[Dropship]

..The geological record simply does not support the idea of a "world wide flood"..

1- The "world" of those times might simply have referred to the Tigris-Euphrates area.
2- Isaac Asimov speculates in one of his books that an asteroid may have splashed down in the Persian Gulf and the resulting mega-tsunami washed Noah's Ark all the way up the Tig-Euph flood plain to Turkey.
3- As for the impossibility of cramming every species of creature into the Ark, that could be explained in modern scientific terms by speculating that the animals were reduced to tiny DNA samples and the Ark was a "DNA Repository".

The film 'Silent Running' touched on that theme where fullsize animals and forests were housed in large domes for safekeeping pending their return to earth-

 

[Subduction Zone]

1- The "world" of those times might simply have referred to the Tigris-Euphrates area.
2- Isaac Asimov speculates in one of his books that an asteroid may have splashed down in the Persian Gulf and the resulting mega-tsunami washed Noah's Ark all the way up the Tig-Euph flood plain to Turkey.
3- As for the impossibility of cramming every species of creature into the Ark, that could be explained in modern scientific terms by speculating that the animals were reduced to tiny DNA samples and the Ark was a "DNA Repository".

The film 'Silent Running' touched on that theme where fullsize animals and forests were housed in large domes for safekeeping pending their return to earth-

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A "tiny DNA depository" would leave evidence of its existence. That clear evidence is missing.

 

[Dropship]

A "tiny DNA depository" would leave evidence of its existence. That clear evidence is missing.

The Ark served its purpose in keeping the DNA samples dry, then the samples were re-activated into living creatures after the flood subsided..

 

[Subduction Zone]

The Ark served its purpose in keeping the DNA samples dry, then the samples were re-activated into living creatures after the flood subsided..

Life does not work that way. You should probably take a sex ed class.

 

[SkepticThinker]

1- The "world" of those times might simply have referred to the Tigris-Euphrates area.
2- Isaac Asimov speculates in one of his books that an asteroid may have splashed down in the Persian Gulf and the resulting mega-tsunami washed Noah's Ark all the way up the Tig-Euph flood plain to Turkey.
3- As for the impossibility of cramming every species of creature into the Ark, that could be explained in modern scientific terms by speculating that the animals were reduced to tiny DNA samples and the Ark was a "DNA Repository".

The film 'Silent Running' touched on that theme where fullsize animals and forests were housed in large domes for safekeeping pending their return to earth-

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Are you suggesting that Noah and his family actually existed and constructed modern looking domes to house all the animals on the Ark?
Seriously?

 

[Dropship]

Life does not work that way. You should probably take a sex ed class.

Thanks mate, but between you and me I'm terrified of women..