(August 9, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(August 9, 2015 at 11:37 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Let me fix it:What is not literal about God ordering Moses to build an ark because he was gonna drown everything?
...If everything in the bible is to be taken literally.
In which case I'd also believe that eating pork was a sin, clothes made out of wool were immodest, earth is just a few thousand years old, and the universe was created in 7 days.
Perhaps the story was meant to represent cleansing and new beginnings, rather than to say that God actually talked to a man named Noah, and actually told him to build an ark that holds a pair of every single living species of animal on the planet lol. Some people say it was a metaphor for baptism.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
