Sentences with phrase «flood stories»

Not only is there scientific evidence for it, but numerous cultures mention flood stories in their history.

The failure to appreciate that genre calibration is responsible for much of the tension in the evolution discussion... To observe the similarities between the creation and flood stories and the literature of the ancient Near East, and to insist that all of those other writings are clearly a-historical while Genesis is somehow presenting history — this is not a strong position of faith, but rather a weak one, where Scripture must conform to one's expectations.»

Yes, there are other flood stories, but that really proves nothing.

(I suspect that you believe all of the flood stories that pre-date the Hebrews are myths.)

Most other cultures around the world also have flood stories dating back to that time.

first of all, flood stories abound in all cultures because terrible floods happen when people build cities close to water.

I've heard that in other ancient flood stories, people were saved for other less noble reasons.

There was a global flood and all the flood stories are true.

Oh, and if you read the flood story, you'll find Noah never warned anyone, and nobody laughed at him.

The flood story was like the movie Titanic captivating the audience in presentation and they left the reading with tears in their eyes and the hope of being rescued from this wicked harsh world in their hearts.

= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance with the plan of creation for the salvation of souls.

Several cultures have a flood story.

What translation of the flood story do you read?

It is a retelling of the flood story from the Epic of Gilgamesh with Noah and his family replacing Utnapishtim and his family.

Attacking the flood story based on science is like attacking Aesop's Fable The Tortoise and the Hare with scientific evidence related to the anatomic structure of a tortoise vs the hare.

That very truth is clear when we read the flood story as false because of current knowable geology which is limited to known physical laws.

The flood story shows as few as one found favor in the eyes of the Lord when wickedness peeked.

= > The flood story is a warning.

The flood story touches on just about every aspect of God and salvation and I want it to be more than spiritual.

For some reason I want the flood story to be a real event when it does not need to be a real event.

She believes the flood story was taken from other cultures as well.

The global flood story requires that only eight people were left alive in 2349 BCE.

Are you not up to a rant on the viability of the flood story, pity.

Adam and Eve have nothing to do with DNA, the flood story makes it clear that observed physical reality is not as it appears (hence it is not about known relationships between matter and energy but relationship to God), contradictions in the Bible are not contradictions at all as most have been explained (the few not explained are insignificant).

While the epic contains a flood story I have to disagree with Mr. George, I challenge you to read the Gilgamesh flood tale and Noahs flood and point out how they follow each other.

What is particularly noticeable is the way the Genesis flood story follows the Gilgamesh flood tale «point by point and in the same order», even when the story permits other alternatives.

Wouldn't a whole lot of cultures having a flood story tend to support that something happened.

I'm not sure if all ancient cultures have a flood story, but if they do, does the timing of all the stories coincide?

I'm sorry Robert, but this whole flood story s just one more thing, in a long list of things, that your scientifically ignorant god got completely wrong.

People from all over the world throughout history have lived primarily in fertile flood plains and valleys... at some point they inevitably experienced floods... that's why there are commonalities to the flood story told in the Bible.

There are discrepancies between the verses regarding the number of creatures taken on - board, because parts of the flood story come from the Yahwist's version while parts come from the Priestly Source version and the two different versions of the story have been mixed together.

If this Jesus fellow was truly a god incarnate, omnipotent and omniscient then it would have known that the whole Noah flood story was just fiction.

@lewcypher, «If this Jesus fellow was truly a god incarnate, omnipotent and omniscient then it would have known that the whole Noah flood story was just fiction.»

How strange is it that while we decry and condemn such actions by various people today, we turn around and tell the story of God drowning millions of babies (along with their mothers and fathers and siblings) in the flood story of Genesis 6 - 8?

In the flood story «God» kills every human on the planet except for a few on a boat in the Middle East.

There are a list of 101 Reasons why you're wrong about the flood story here: http://www.biblicalnonsense.com/chapter6.html

You use archeological and geological evidence to support your claim that a huge wave did rip through the middle east where noah was, the flood story evolved from that but then you have to deal with the issues of a tsunami large enough to reach noah from the indian ocean without destroying the entire world.

I'd refer you to «Who Wrote the Bible» by Richard Elliott Friedman, a biblical scholar who is the Ann and Jay Davis Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Georgia regarding the authorship of the flood story in the Bible, specifically pages 53 to 60 in the «The Story of Noah — Twice».

If the bible is true and Noah's flood story happened then it doesn't make sense that kangaroos are only in Australia and lions in Africa.

I'm simply saying that if we start at a supposition that the God of Abraham did create this universe, and that the flood story might be true, then what evidence do we have in any direction about his possible past dealings or ethics that can be verified?

G retold the local version of the flood story, and is convinced that Noah got the details wrong.

Sorry to disagree with you VPM — but the flood story is a myth that predates Christian literature.

Discovered by the museum's cuneiform curator, Irving Finkel, the tablet makes note of a round ark and is one of several versions of the flood story that have been found in Mesopotamian excavations.

The world's potentially oldest clay tablet containing a flood story was found in the British Museum archives and put on display last January.

Although this tablet from ancient Babylon, dated around 1750 BC, may be the oldest found containing the flood story, it's not necessarily the...

There's plenty of evidence againt, for instance, the flood story.

Every culture on earth has a great «flood story».

Unfortunately, if you are arguing for the flood as part of an argument for God, you will not be comfortable with the flood story being a myth.

You are leaning dangerously close to a reasonable answer when you allow the possibility that the flood story is a myth.

Babylonia also has its flood story, which, in some points of detail, is much closer to the Biblical account than the creation story.