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I am not being condescending, you are obviously an ex-believer, would you be saying the same thing if people believed in fairies to the same extent?
Not on the ark they weren't, God saw to all of that.
Only when people didn't know any better.
I wasn't joking, people have been deliberately raised to believe in such nonsense and I think it's scandalous.
Excuse me, obviously an ex believer? I suppose we haven't formally met. My name is Sarah, and I have never in my life been a theist. I have been a seeker for the past 7 years, but my own mind tends so far towards the skeptical, that I have been incapable of forcing belief onto myself, no matter how hard I have tried to do it, and continue to do it.
And of course one could make all sorts of specious arguments for the flood by throwing miracles around willy nilly. The problem is that it is supposed to be impossible for God to lie. Since all of the evidence tells us that there was no flood and God is the creator that would mean that God created evidence that says there was no flood. And the claim that God can't lie makes that a terrible self contradiction for Flood believers.
In the bible, no one is stated to have been critical of Noah. It would make sense if they were, given how long he worked on the ark, but no such information is stated by the bible. Then again, my memory for scripture is definitely not the greatest.
Sorry, but that is called "rationalization". The problem is that all of the evidence out there tells us that there was no flood. That means that to believe in the flood you have to believe that your God covered up the evidence. That would mean that to believe in a flood you have to believe in a lying God. Even when I was a Christian I did not believe in a lying God.
In contrast, I could see how one could interpret YHWH as a dishonest deity. How likable a deity is has nothing to do with whether or not I believe it exists, and I am enough of a coward to worship a morally questionable being if it means a better afterlife for myself. I just don't think any deities actually exist, be they moral or immoral, or anything in between.
This goes beyond "We have never seen anything like this". You are describing a lying God. That is not a reasonable belief.
No, the evidence says that there was no flood. For that to happen would require a dishonest God if your belief in the Flood was correct. "Fixing" everything is one thing. Making a false past that refutes the flood is another.It's all covered in scripture.
People cannot believe, whatever "it" is.
