Try being Sherlock Holmes instead of a 5 year old in sunday school. Obviously this Noah biblical account was a myth built around a true story of survival in a hurricane. In 1900 there were similar stories of people being washed out to sea in Galveston and yet miraculously surviving. They told their stories to the press and then it was all glossed over by later news, nobody remembers now...
5000 years ago there was no press, no literacy; the only way this “Readers Digest” book section about an ancestor surviving a hurricane in a unique way, that could even be remembered, was by family history telling. Thus little embellishments get thrown in here and there, generation by generation, and a MYTH grows in this little pakistani tribe : WE are the most famous and special people in God’s eyes because of NOAH! Young ABRAM swallows it whole...
Hitler understood the power of MYTH very well : aryan superiority. Millions of people, many of them jewish children, died in WWII in part because of that MYTH. This then is why many pass the bible off as mere stories for children. The ocean never did cover all the land, it was just Noah’s limited perspective on being out in the middle of it. 15 cubits = 22’ deep water = storm surge in a type 4 hurricane(cyclone in those parts). His raft washes up on an outer sand bank, they have to wait for low tide to wade back to the true shore.
So, re-read Genesis, this time learn to separate the truth from fantasy. Although a mythical character himself, Sherlock Holmes routinely did that, the master detective...
Well, I might accept that Noah's story was mythical, but you'll never convince me that Bill Cosby lied to me.
Try having intelligent discourse instead of insulting people without having a clue what their opinion is.
susie
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After reading Genesis,
It sounds like you are saying that there was a hurricane that lasted a month and a half, then this old guy and his family floated on the sea for a year.