RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 28, 2017 at 2:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2017 at 2:02 am by Fake Messiah.)
Well yeah this is like asking how would Domingo Gonsales' flight to the Moon tied to a flock of geese look like as it was described in Francis Godwin's early 17th century SF novel "The Man in the Moone". It wouldn't look like anything because it's totally impractical and impossible. When that book was written people didn't know anything about air pressure, vacuum, gravity, flight mechanics and many other things so the book seemed plausible for people of those times; just like writers of flood myth didn't know anything about size and shape of the Earth, geography, zoology, meteorology and so on and on.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
