(January 6, 2016 at 2:32 am)robvalue Wrote: Yep. If God wrote it, I'd expect the meaning to be obvious... unless God didn't want it to be obvious. In which case he's a nob shiner.Actually the meaning is very obvious. People are expected to believe completely and to obey without exception. All of the stories are based upon those two requirements. The stories themselves shouldn't be taken as reality. Remember, Jesus used parables. He never said that his stories were real.
The Noah flood story illustrates Jesus' parable in Matthew 17:20 about having the faith the size of a mustard seed and being able to move mountains. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...MP;NLT;MSG
Of course there was no global flood but the Noah flood story illustrates the parable in action. Noah believed; he obeyed. He did the impossible because he had faith.
In today's world people have their imaginations and they get ideas for all sorts of previous impossible things. Sometimes they are able to follow through and turn those ideas into reality. They didn't rely upon faith in an invisible deity but upon their own abilities and knowledge. So from that perspective the parable is true.
