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You can also refer to the particular version you are speaking of.
What I am asking is your view of the flood, not the details. What was it? Why did it happen? Did they deserve it?
They deserved it completely.
You can also refer to the particular version you are speaking of.
What I am asking is your view of the flood, not the details. What was it? Why did it happen? Did they deserve it?
Miraculous world-wide flooding.What was it?
People were doing bad stuff.Why did it happen?
Yes?Did they deserve it?
What was it?
Why did it happen?
Did they deserve it?
The Quran doesn't suggest that either.The flood story is a myth.
It didn't. No global flood submerging all land forms ever occurred.
IMO, it's allegorical.What I am asking is your view of the flood, not the details. What was it? Why did it happen? Did they deserve it?
You can also refer to the particular version you are speaking of.
What I am asking is your view of the flood, not the details. What was it? Why did it happen? Did they deserve it?
God saw that the people were sinful and unrepentant, even after many warnings. Then he drowned them save for Noah and his family. He also saved two of every kind of animal.
A myth has been described as a story that is good to think with, or one that never happened but was always true. Mesopotamia was always subject to terrible floods when the rivers (particularly the Euphrates) burst their banks and changed course. When a town ends up under ten feet of mud, people tend to remember, and so the idea of a catastrophic flood became an obvious symbol for divine punishment.
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What I am asking is your view of the flood, not the details. What was it? Why did it happen? Did they deserve it?
Long before Noah's flood the Gods of Sumer decided to drown mankind because they were too noisy.
You ever been to Iraq?
This made me laugh.
How Long Did the Flood Last? | Noah's Ark: Beyond Flannelgraph
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I believe when the flood ended Noah was 601 years and 6 days old, so the flood lasted one year. Somewhere around that time table. Of course, they calculated “time” differently back then, they actually counted backwards, in BCE … and then became Common or Christine Era counting time AD 1,2,3,4.
Reason is this:
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
Gen. 6:11-12
They didn’t deserve to live eternally. Eternal life is for righteous.
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Mat. 25:46
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
Flood as what Bible tells it was. Water that came from the “fountains of great deep” covered dry land. Here are few images that show the principle how it happened.
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