(November 21, 2013 at 2:14 pm)super spidey man Wrote: Ok, I thought you were going to say that. But the flood wasn't world wide that wouldn't make any sense. It was the area or chunk of land they were on at the time. If god told them of other continents and other places the people of that time would have no clue of what he was talking about. All they knew was the their whole world. It was ment for the people of that time.
Why would it have been such a mind-blowing revelation that there are other continents and other peoples? I'm pretty sure the ancient Hebrews could have handled the news.
Let's dispense with the fiction that "God" revealed anything in the Bible. The reason the flood is understood by the story's author(s) to be a worldwide event is because is was written by and for a provincial desert people who were utterly ignorant of the sophisticated, flourishing contemporary civilizations (e.g., the Chinese, the Indians, etc.) that made a mockery of their pretensions of being a "chosen people," rather than the ass-backward hicks they really were. The story is the product of ignorance, nothing more. Yahweh didn't spare anyone uncomfortable knowledge of the wider world. Yahweh didn't because Yahweh isn't. Your Bible is a human artifact from a bygone time.
