RE: 10 Questions Every Christian Needs To Answer.
August 1, 2014 at 1:28 am
(This post was last modified: August 1, 2014 at 1:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 1, 2014 at 1:13 am)orangebox21 Wrote: I honestly don't know if there was a point in history when there were no rainbows or not.LOL, well, if you'd like that cleared up, definitively....
Quote:In speculation, if there never were rainbows until after the flood that doesn't necessitate that God would have had to change the properties of light. You still need rain followed by sunlight to get a rainbow and not every rainstorm produces a rainbow. If it rains and you don't see a rainbow, that doesn't mean the properties of light have changed, just that they (the properties) weren't observed (by a person) at that time.I'm not sure that it's really all that reasonable to suggest that people had never observed a rainbow at any point since homo sapiens were on this earth until whatever timeframe you care put this flood myth in. That would be like me saying to you..."well....maybe no one had ever seen a cloud"-arguing that humans mistook clouds for gods, and that this in turn explains your faith.
Yes, a god would have to make changes, either to light or the human eye. That's the -how-, that's thinking "more deeply about how certain miracles could have been achieved through natural laws".
Quote:Or it could be that there have always been rainbows but after the flood God gave the rainbow special significance. This leads into your last question.Right, so..."it could be" is probably not a strong enough way to phrase this. I assume that Noah took a shit the day the rain stopped. That's as much a sign (as a rainbow) - in this case, isn't it? I want to stress here, that you are taking a very liberal turn with a just-so story. What's wrong with the just-so version?
"Sign of the covenant" is a remembrance. We see the sign, we remember the covenant.
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