Bible and the history

[EnemyPartyII]

But then why the need for the story to be carried all the way around the world? Unless the earth was being repopulated? It appears in almost every culture. See here for a list: Flood Stories from Around the World

Not the same story of the same flood appears in nearly every culture.

 

[catzrfluffy]

The similarities are too remarkable to dismiss, please read the link, most of them contain some sort of Noah type figure as well.

 

[ebia]

I just read one page of them, and not a single Noah figure in sight, so "most of them contain a Noah figure" would appear, at first glace, to be an overstatement at best.

But what constitutes a Noah figure? Someone escaping the flood on a boat would be a pretty common theme in a flood story.

 

[EnemyPartyII]

The similarities are too remarkable to dismiss, please read the link, most of them contain some sort of Noah type figure as well.

I'ead similar things before. All the flood stories with genuine similarities have common roots in the same area, which is what we'd expect. One of the places civilisation began was in Mesopotamia, were the flood story is part of their oral tradition, so its not suprising that the flood story was incorporated into all of their successor cultures. But guess what? Cultures and civilisations that DON'T decend from Mesopotamian roots don't have the same flood story.

I'm not ignoring the similarities, I'm merely avoiding leaping to the conclusion that best suits what I want to believe, and rather trying to analyse things a little further.

 

[Christ's_Warrior]

There are undoubtedly valuable and reliable historical data in the bible, but the archaeological record is often in conflict with many of its major events. The website linked to in the OP is not a reputable source.

Finis,
E.L.B.

Which events are you referring to? Please let me know so I can show how much archeology has shown the Bible to be accurate many times over.

People like you have existed for many a century, over and over archeology reveals that events, dates, people, places and times that events occured to be true. Would you like a list my brother?

Also, one thing you need to understand is that archeology can only bring to light a very minute percentage of details that actually occured in history and much of it is open to interpretation.