Can bible really be interpreted as if there is no torment but you cease to exist

[Aardverk]

Hello Arrdverk, Noah, thing about Noah is, his story is it is told from his experiences and understanding at that period of time, his view point. Most of the story's of the bible are, snap shots of time and understanding. The last major flood of the magnitude in the story is thought to be the end of the last glacial period 12,500 years ago. The world, as we know it, was not covered by that flood But the whole of Noah's world might have been, taken he was situated in a flood area. So what does the story say, Noah gets the heads up that there's a flood coming is told how to survive it and what to store to start again after.

So do you think God should have stopped the ice sheets melting.

I must say it's refreshing to have a Christian who doesn't believe the bible and who doesn't preach too much - well done. I rather like your notion that God's role was entirely passive and that he just acted as some sort of weather man for Noah. As you clearly don't believe the bible it makes it difficult to challenge you too much. Clearly IF we were just talking about the end of the ice age, the population of the known world would have had ample time to avoid the water and they would not have been drowned. Excellent! In your version God kills no one and Noah obviously has some major navigation failure drifting out to sea. That's a much better version. Can you teach it to the other Christians now.

Basically, what your saying about Mao is, you can not make an country without braking heads. The same go's for bronze age Israel.

Sadly revolutions are sometimes necessary but us imperfect humans rarely have a revolution without major bloodshed.

If I were a perfect, omnipotent god I think I would manage to create nations and get people to live in love and peace rather better than your God has managed. I obviously do not believe he exists but I presume you do. Do you think he should have done a better job or is His work good enough for you?

Well that's me off, back to the land of no contact till at least the end of the week. I just hope I can get a break sometime in the future to have a proper discussion.

I look forward to hearing more about your version of Christianity and why you don't believe the bible.