(August 29, 2017 at 2:14 pm)Cyberman Wrote:(August 29, 2017 at 12:38 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: To my mind and in contrast to both the OP and alpha_male, I think figurative language such as "foundations of the deep" and "window of heaven" point to a more metaphorical interpretation of the story. I never regarded the Bible as a science book.
Metaphors still have to refer to some object or action. Was the Flood a real event or not?
My personal opinion is that the biblical narrative was a local cataclysmic water event in Southeast Asia at the end of the Ice Age, retained in ancestral memory and expressed in flood myths across cultures.