Why I don't believe the story of the Great Flood...
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:07 pm
Okay, a quick recap on the story:
World wicked, Noah told to build a boat, Noah fills boat with animals and good people (circa 8), people thing he's a looney to build a boat in an area with minimal rain fall, rains for 40 days and nights, whole earth flooded, everyone and everthing dies except the people and animals on the ark.
Now, put yourself in the shoes of the unrighteous people; the ones who mocked Noah for building a boat because a flood was coming.
Okay, you don't believe him. But then it satrts to rain. A lot. In a few hours puddles start to appear, in a fews hours streams become torrents, in a few days perhaps low lying areas start to disappear underwater. It reaches your shins, then days later it's up to your waist. Houses become half filled with water, animals start swimming around and drowning. Small children and babies have to be held above the adults heads etc.
People are moving to higher and higher ground as less and less land becomes visible. And so it continues until, after forty days there ain't no land to be had. You swim for as long as you can and then drown, along with your wife and kids.
Here's the unbelievable bit.
Why, at no point did you think "hmmm, perhaps Noah was right let's build a boat"? Boats existed, people went fishing etc. Why not stash some of these boats with food like a lifeboat?
Why, at no point did you think "hmmm, perhaps Noah was right, let's go and get on his boat"? 8 people could not have resisted the sodden mob that came rushing up the hill to board him when they saw the waters rising.
No, instead, you ignored Noah's boat, ingnored your own boats, ignored the urgency of perhaps building a boat and allowed the waters to slowly rise until you were fish food.
World wicked, Noah told to build a boat, Noah fills boat with animals and good people (circa 8), people thing he's a looney to build a boat in an area with minimal rain fall, rains for 40 days and nights, whole earth flooded, everyone and everthing dies except the people and animals on the ark.
Now, put yourself in the shoes of the unrighteous people; the ones who mocked Noah for building a boat because a flood was coming.
Okay, you don't believe him. But then it satrts to rain. A lot. In a few hours puddles start to appear, in a fews hours streams become torrents, in a few days perhaps low lying areas start to disappear underwater. It reaches your shins, then days later it's up to your waist. Houses become half filled with water, animals start swimming around and drowning. Small children and babies have to be held above the adults heads etc.
People are moving to higher and higher ground as less and less land becomes visible. And so it continues until, after forty days there ain't no land to be had. You swim for as long as you can and then drown, along with your wife and kids.
Here's the unbelievable bit.
Why, at no point did you think "hmmm, perhaps Noah was right let's build a boat"? Boats existed, people went fishing etc. Why not stash some of these boats with food like a lifeboat?
Why, at no point did you think "hmmm, perhaps Noah was right, let's go and get on his boat"? 8 people could not have resisted the sodden mob that came rushing up the hill to board him when they saw the waters rising.
No, instead, you ignored Noah's boat, ingnored your own boats, ignored the urgency of perhaps building a boat and allowed the waters to slowly rise until you were fish food.