Did the flood really occur?

[Ace Otana]

I do think it is more plausible for it to be local, but then I think of the ark and the animals, there would be no need for the ark if it was just a restricted thing...then again, what if God wanted to only flood Africa, then that could be considered local and the animals would still need saving....etc

What you have to try to understand is that, these stories came from people who knew virtually nothing about the world. They would say "goddidit" to everything. Even volcanoes because they didn't know anything about them. Like "fire from the sky" which was describing rocks being thrown from a volcano. They didn't know, they assumed it was god chucking down fire balls to punish people.

Reason why such stories cannot be taken seriously now is because we now understand a great deal about the world. This is why I won't take the bible at all true. People back then, knew very little compared to what we know now. We know wooden ships cannot be built too big, we cannot even today with our technology do what the bible claimed happened. Which means, the bible must be wrong.

I have reason to believe that Christ is real because after accepting him I changed in ways that I was incapable of doing on my own. As you can see, that kind of reasoning isn't effected by what history tells me.

I reckon it's just you. You're just giving your imaginary friend the credit instead of yourself.