Drifting wrote: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.
not that you bother to actually be informed, both about science or theology...but you have left out many important details.
One, it was not just rain that caused the flooding.
Two, you ignore the purpose of the flood.
Three, it is not stated that every living thing "drowned" ( Gen 7:4 "..and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made" AND Gen 7:23 "So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air.") - cause of death is not attributed to water.
Four, it is likely that Noah's boat was protected from having water fill it from above (see Gen 7:16 "shut him in"), a typical fishing boat will not stay afloat if the rains are so heavy as to fill it...anyone who has been in one, in the rain knows this.
Six, a blind eye is often turned to by people so deeply entrenched in their "sinful ways", that they don't recognize the flood until it is to late......
whispers to the side - 'like you'and lucky Seven, the flood waters are never termed as a force of death, more likely as a means to cleanse.
I think a more interesting topic for discussion is found in the first words of Genesis 8
"Then God remembered Noah..."
remembered?
what was God doing for 150 days that He suddenly went "Oh yeah, Noah is still on that boat".....
....jus sayin....more interesting than highlighting the hypocrisy of those who exclaim that a global flood was, or is, impossible based on their speculation which has the same justification as exclaiming that it is possible.....jus sayin