Another problem with the flood that I don't see brought up much-- why did all the animals need to die? I've heard someone say that the animals were being bad too. But if that's the case, then why did Noah save two of each? Were there still two good animals of every surviving species after the Ark story? JUST two? and there happened to be seven of every clean animal that were also 'good'. No more, no less. Two of each kind. Exactly two.
Yahweh chose to save Noah and his family because Noah was a good person. Were all the animals being bad too? With God being all powerful, surely there were less messy ways of wiping out all of humanity.
Were there no good children? No good babies? How about unborn children? Surely at least a few people who died during the flood would have been pregnant.
It stretches the imagination to believe the story to be anything more than myth.
Yahweh chose to save Noah and his family because Noah was a good person. Were all the animals being bad too? With God being all powerful, surely there were less messy ways of wiping out all of humanity.
Were there no good children? No good babies? How about unborn children? Surely at least a few people who died during the flood would have been pregnant.
It stretches the imagination to believe the story to be anything more than myth.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
