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Originally Posted by Donny
I do believe it was a real event, yes. Amongst Christians there is much debate over whether or not the flood was regional or global, however.
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How silly, what insight would Christians have into whether the flood was regional or global?
Theistic evolution - so now you're saying that Genesis and its geneology is just an allegory, a story. The only evidence we have that there is a creator called God is found in the scriptures dictated to Moses by God himself. Such a conundrum, the scriptures thought to be the work of God, really aren't, they're just stories and ideas conceived by the Israelites. Of course a rational human being understands this paradox but you arent, so you'll attempt to present some kind of philosophical bs argument which you've assured yourself explains the existence of God and his creation doesn't rely on the literalness of the Bible.
But it does. There is a truth, this God and his powers and actions, were dreamed up by a tribe of Canaanite goat herders who worshipped a Canaanite god named Yahweh and over time imagined him to be the only god, the Creator of Everything.
This quote by Biblical scholar John Crossan nails the truth to the cross.
"?My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.?