I find the Noah's Ark story creepy

Tonio

Tonio

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Pixie, I believe the Bible is mostly fable and metaphor for real-life events too, and not meant to be interpreted literally. I've posted here before about my theory about the Garden of Eden story as metaphor for the development of human sentience.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this stuff, but here's why the Flood story and the stuff in Revelations bother me--they assume all of humanity is worthless and deserves to be destroyed. Moreover, they portray God as arbitrary and malicious, creating things and then destroying them, like a little kid building sand castles just to stomp them to bits. Sounds a bit like the portrayals of the ancient Greek gods, who were explicitly arbitrary and almost bipolar in their changing moods. Maybe this stuff was meant to show the randomness of life and death.

Originally posted by kwillia
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Cool photo, but what does it have to do with the Flood story?
 
Ehesef

Ehesef

Yo Gabba Gabba
Originally posted by Kain99
Psst! It doesn't! This comes from the book of Ceo_Pte:biggrin:
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I figured as much. :wink

Well I just read Genesis Chapters 5-9 (which is the story of Noah and the Ark) and saw no mention of it never raining before.
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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Originally posted by darkriver4362
CMC, I just beleive that there was a natural disaster, that somone took way out of proportion...I do not think that the "creator" had anything to do with it.
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If you choose not to believe in a "supreme being" of some sort, I don't care. I'm not pushing my agenda. I just took issue with the idea that people now are much worse than people way back when. I completely disagree with that statement. And it is possible that they were sooooo bad that a parent figure, "Creator," "God," "Father," what have you, might want to wipe them out. :shrug:
 
ceo_pte

ceo_pte

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Originally posted by Ehesef
I have never heard of this before. Where in the bible does it say this?
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Hey, hope your doing good...
It does say this in the Bible.. That's why so many people thought Noah was crazy when he told them that it was going to Rain (water was going to come down out of the sky).
 
Dymphna

Dymphna

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Originally posted by Kain99
why do Christians get so bent out of shape over the issue?
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:nono: don't generalize. You are talking about a few radical psychos. Nothing "Christian" in their behavior.
 
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Kain99

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Originally posted by ceo_pte
Hey, hope your doing good...
It does say this in the Bible.. That's why so many people thought Noah was crazy when he told them that it was going to Rain (water was going to come down out of the sky).
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Where please?
 
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darkriver4362

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Originally posted by ceo_pte
Hey, hope your doing good...
It does say this in the Bible.. That's why so many people thought Noah was crazy when he told them that it was going to Rain (water was going to come down out of the sky).
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Ummmm....Gyesers maybe?? Since the area was mountainous there is a good possibility that the air was very dry and didn't rain much but there's also a possibility of mountain streams coming out of the ground.....but they surely have had to see rain.
 
Ehesef

Ehesef

Yo Gabba Gabba
Originally posted by Kain99
Where please?
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:yeahthat:

It's not in the story of Noah and the Flood. I just want to see it for myself and see if you are maybe interpreting it incorrectly...
 
pixiegirl

pixiegirl

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Originally posted by Tonio

Maybe I'm reading too much into this stuff, but here's why the Flood story and the stuff in Revelations bother me--they assume all of humanity is worthless and deserves to be destroyed. Moreover, they portray God as arbitrary and malicious, creating things and then destroying them, like a little kid building sand castles just to stomp them to bits. Sounds a bit like the portrayals of the ancient Greek gods, who were explicitly arbitrary and almost bipolar in their changing moods. Maybe this stuff was meant to show the randomness of life and death.

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I absolutely agree! I guess I just look at it as a bunch of stories and not actual fact so I don't put a lot of heart into it.

Though I don't talk religion much I am for the most part totally against organized religion. In my mind God made me what I am; he's who I have to believe in an answer to not ANYTHING anyone else says. So to me I consider what's in the bible to be on the same fictional lines as fairy tales and don't put anymore thought into them then I would "little red riding hood" or any other.
 
Tonio

Tonio

Asperger's Poster Child
Originally posted by cmcdanal
And it is possible that they were sooooo bad that a parent figure, "Creator," "God," "Father," what have you, might want to wipe them out. :shrug:
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I believe that conflicts with the concept of a loving God, at least the one portrayed in the New Testament.
 
ceo_pte

ceo_pte

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Originally posted by Ehesef
I figured as much. :wink

Well I just read Genesis Chapters 5-9 (which is the story of Noah and the Ark) and saw no mention of it never raining before.
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Here... God did not send rain... streams/mist/water came up from the Earth and watered the Earth.

Genesis 2:6.

Kain, that was nice of you to accuse me of making it up. :rolleyes:
 
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darkriver4362

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Originally posted by ceo_pte
Here... God did not send rain... streams/mist/water came up from the Earth and watered the Earth.

Genesis 2:6.

Kain, that was nice of you to accuse me of making it up. :rolleyes:
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Which version of the bible do you have pte?? My mom has 2 right here and I can't find it in either, it's not there either.
 
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