I think we understand.
"folks who claim they are christian, believe the following..."
Same difference. I believe evolution is a fact. I also have studied geology at college level with field work experience and I breed carnivorous lants for a hobby so I know quite a lot aboutselective breeding. But 'belief' in a fact will not exclude me from eternal life.
In the first place, you statement is written in the third party, not as a statement of your personal beliefs.
In the scond place, Christian means "of Christ." How can one truly be of Christ when they believe contrary to the Scriptures, which Christ revered and acknowledge as the word of God? You can't simultaneouls believe that it is raining and not raining outside. You can't claim to believe in the Bible and yet disbelieve every other word of it. When you tell others that the Bible is false you become a false teacher. False teachers are the enemies of truth. Christ's followers are not His enemies.
What did Jeus believe about the flood? He said, "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be." Apparently, if the flood is a myth then it certainly fooled the son of God; who witnessed it.
All the events that you mention in your post were witnesses by Christ and are denied by "folks who claim they are christian." Your words, not mine. I haven't seen you yet count yourself among those making such a claim. I do know that you are teaching contrary to what is written, and false treachers are mentioned many times in the bible.
Regardless of what some "folks who claim they are christian" believe, the Bible is the word of God. God does not command consensus, he commands us to have faith.
The bible is inspired by God, not dictated. Noah's flood in the light of the end of the last ice age when sea levels rose up and ice locked lakes broke through with rapid climate change explains why flood stories are accross the globe. The story of Noah is coming from the epic of Gilgamesh, I quote from Wikipedia:
Relationship to the Bible[edit]
Further information:
Panbabylonism
Various themes, plot elements, and characters in the
Epic of Gilgamesh have counterparts in the book of Genesis, notably in the stories of the
Garden of Eden and
Noah's Flood.
The parallels between the stories of Enkidu/Shamhat and Adam/Eve have been long recognized by scholars.
[16] In both, a man is created from the soil by a god, and lives in a natural setting amongst the animals. He is introduced to a woman who tempts him. In both stories the man accepts food from the woman, covers his nakedness, and must leave his former realm, unable to return. The presence of a snake that steals a plant of immortality from the hero later in the epic is another point of similarity.
Andrew R. George submits that the flood story in Genesis 68 matches the Gilgamesh flood myth so closely, "few doubt" that it derives from a Mesopotamian account.
[17] What is particularly noticeable is the way the Genesis flood story follows the Gilgamesh flood tale "point by point and in the same order", even when the story permits other alternatives.
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In a 2001 Torah commentary released on behalf of the Conservative Movement of Judaism, rabbinic scholar
Robert Wexler stated: "The most likely assumption we can make is that both Genesis and Gilgamesh drew their material from a common tradition about the flood that existed in Mesopotamia. These stories then diverged in the retelling."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh
The Noah's ark story fits in nicely with with the end of the last ice age, so it has its basis in fact.