(November 4, 2019 at 7:54 am)soldierofGod Wrote:(November 3, 2019 at 8:54 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: At best it’s based on the Epic of Gilgamesh.The Hebrew-Israelites were not based on the epic of Gilgamesh but what the Prophets of God revealed to them. The Sumerians also descend from those who were saved from the flood. The Sumerian civilization formed after the flood. They are located near where Noah's ark prostrated and therefore the story prevailed mostly intact through oral and written transmission, while the rest of the cultures, separated by space-time and far from the ark, tell a similar story but with alteration produced by oral transmission.
Either way, there was no global flood.
And no regional flood that could have been that large.
The only possibility is that the story is based on memories of the flooding of the Black sea, thousands of years earlier.
A regional flood can be a global flood depending on the area where the event took place (Noah and his Ark).
(November 3, 2019 at 11:29 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: Not physically possible, never existed.Noah did not pick up all the terrestrial animals on Earth but those around him. Those animals he collected were not many.
Unless you are going to claim a miracle.
And if miracles are possible, then anything is possible.
So I can claim that women have periods because they deserve that miracle. Fuck biology. Therefore they should be slaves because whatever I make up.
And that is all you can come up with.
Jesus H Spaghetti Monster. Why are you so threatened by empowered women? I am a red blooded male and I want women who step up and wont back down.
And Noahs ship? Feel free to explain how kangaroos made the trek to the ark and back from the Ark. And Koalas. And Duck Billed Platypuses. and well anything. That is what is meant by the claim that this superstitious explains nothing.
Then please explain: [bold mine]
'You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.'
and
'Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark'
Nowhere in Genesis does God say or indicated that Noah is to collect only local creatures, but two (sometimes seven) of ALL creatures.
The Noahic flood is a morality tale, it wasn't ever meant to be taken literally.
Boru
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