RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 30, 2017 at 7:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2017 at 7:46 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 29, 2017 at 2:48 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 29, 2017 at 2:14 pm)Cyberman Wrote: 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.
Excellent, pick an area on a map and we can see what it would have taken to produce conditions similar to those in he biblical narrative. Or, in this, are you proposing that the biblical narrative is in no way even remotely accurate..just a "ancestral memory" that waves happen...somewhere? SE asia, no less? You reckon there was an immigrant population of se asians that had moved into the levant? I'm trying to figure out why you floated this one..and hoping there's more to it than picking someplace on the globe where it rains and/or floods alot and flinging it at the wall.
@Anom
The Bosphoros Deluge hypothesis was discredited as soon as someone else took a look at it.
@Cyber
At least that actually happened, lol.
It's just a story. It's not an attempt at history or an "ancestral memory" - it's a vehicle for theology. It isn't based on anything that ever happened, and it doesn't need to be. People are capable of telling stories. Trying to tease out the "real" history of story x is a mistake we've consistently made with mythologies. It;s a mistake that religious orthodoxy promotes and has always promoted as a consolation prize for having been found to be peddling fraud.
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