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Is your God defined by the miracles he has performed as written in ancient texts, or is he possibly greater than that?I understand that for atheists. I don't understand how a believer can just pick what miracles he wants to think are true. To be a Christian you have to believe in the resurrection of a dead man. But you are going to balk at God keeping animals alive on a boat?
It is not the creation that is being questioned here, but the interpretations of the descriptions in the ancient texts.Creating everything that is isn't great enough?
It might lead you to a greater understanding of what was being said in these ancient texts.Again, if I believe in creation from nothing by an all powerful being, am I going to quibble over the Earth being flooded by the same being?
No.He is represented as being an Edomite, a descendent of Abraham. That's close enough.
No, you wouldn't quibble over anything He did. The question is, what did he do? And now we're back to the interpretation of ancient texts as Ponderous Curmudgeon pointed out.Again, if I believe in creation from nothing by an all powerful being, am I going to quibble over the Earth being flooded by the same being?
Just yes!Just... no.
You actually can read biblical Hebrew with understanding? You are familiar with contemporary extra-biblical sources? You know how to employ appropriate linguistic and literary research tools?I can read what was said.
So, where are they?
Are you seriously saying that they were so badly interpreted that the whole flood story meant something else entirely? I'm not sure what you are getting at.No, you wouldn't quibble over anything He did. The question is, what did he do? And now we're back to the interpretation of ancient texts as Ponderous Curmudgeon pointed out.
No, it's a story of a flood very clearly. The meaning is also clear, in fact it's telegraphed. But what about the actual events on which it is based?Are you seriously saying that they were so badly interpreted that the whole flood story meant something else entirely? I'm not sure what you are getting at.
And given that EVERY animal that lived right after the flood all came out of the same door in the side of the ark, it would have been very easy for Noah and his family to catch and eat most of them within a month or two.Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
God just granted them permission to eat them. Animals that hatch from eggs on the ground would be among the very first things that mankind would eat. You imagine yourself in the wilderness. Is it easier to catch and kill a moving creature or to raid a nest while its not attended? No doubt they did both but eggs are an easy target.
There are about 6 million speacies today, 2 million are in the ocean.Once all the animals came off the ark they faced a new hostile world.
One possible way is that the Ark was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside.
I believe scientists recognize eleven (or fourteen?) dimensions of space; not just the three we're accustomed to.
There are about 6 million speacies today, 2 million are in the ocean.
There were at least 700 species of dinosaurs we know of.
The global flood would also destroy sea mammals, many kinds of sea creatures and totally devastated plant life from which majority would never recover.
What was the point of the ark, again? To save all creatures and to lost 80% after that because most could survive the new conditions?
And given that EVERY animal that lived right after the flood all came out of the same door in the side of the ark, it would have been very easy for Noah and his family to catch and eat most of them within a month or two.
Obviously, after the flood, the fast moving turtles and sloths were harder to catch than the Deinonychus raptors since turtles and sloths still exist and Deinonychus raptors don't.
Also, pterydactyls (who must have been flightless despite their wings) must have been easier to catch than dodo birds who somehow made it to the 17th century.
Less understandable is why Noah and his family would eat the two tricerotops specimens over the probably much more tasty cows.
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