(February 23, 2016 at 8:45 pm)Cecelia Wrote: 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.
Two each of the unclean animals and seven pairs of the clean animals.
The 'flood' in the story of the ark is unique. Meaning the very words used to describe the flood in hebrew are unique to the genesis account of the world wide flood. While ever person ever studied the hebrew text will tell you the words used to describe the flood and waters in hebrew will mean literal water and a literal water deluge/flood the words used as not the direct translations for those hebrew words. they are words used to describe the properties of water and the properties of the deluge. While I still personally describe to world wide literal flood, this does indeed leave the door open to other interpretations. for instance in the Halo Universe the flood is a disease that can rush in and wipe out sentient life. Point I am making is my faith is not contingent on what my current understanding of a flood it and is not.
who would raise all those children? noah? Remember the life supporting infrastructure had also just been wipped out, how would all those children live?
Only to a narrow mind.
