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A Common Flood Story. Not just the Hebrews (Gen. 68), but Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and Greeks all report a flood in primordial times. A Sumerian king list from c. 2100 BC divides itself into two categories: those kings who ruled before a great flood and those who ruled after it. One of the earliest examples of Sumero-Akkadian-Babylonian literature, the Gilgamesh Epic, describes a great flood sent as punishment by the gods, with humanity saved only when the pious Utnapishtim (AKA, the Mesopotamian Noah) builds a ship and saves the animal world thereon. A later Greek counterpart, the story of Deucalion and Phyrra, tells of a couple who survived a great flood sent by an angry Zeus. Taking refuge atop Mount Parnassus (AKA, the Greek Ararat), they supposedly repopulated the earth by heaving stones behind them that sprang into human beings.
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Too late - I said it first.You tell me first.
How would you demonstrate to a physically blind man that the sun exists?
You first.
Nope. It is not necessary, unless your point is that *you* cannot demonstrate that you not "spiritually blind". If so, you have shot yourself in the foot.Exactly. Demonstrate that you, personally, are not "physically blind".
What about them?
They invalidate your argument that a common story has any significance.
. The fact that multiple civilizations have records of a great flood strengthens the case for the biblical account of Noah.
If all the stories are talking about the same event then they all support each other, don't they.
Yes. And I'm trying to understand your thought process on this.Do you know what deductive reasoning is?
So says the blind man.You are misinterpreting some of your emotions and feelings, that is all. You are experiencing the same stuff we all experience, you are just slapping a fancy label on some of it ('spirituality') and then claiming it as proof for your completely unrelated and baseless religious beliefs. That is what is happening.
It's called deductive reasoning.
What about all of the flood stories that are different?
First off, we live on a planet that's constantly raining and flooding. It's not that weird for many civilizations to have myths about floods, especially since people tend to settle around areas that are prone to flooding.
Second off, how do you figure it supports the Noah story? How do you Noah's story doesn't support some other flood myth?
Yet Egypt doesn't have one, and they're one of the oldest civilizations that kept records...
We live on a planet that has rain NOW. I can see that you have never read the Bible, because you would otherwise know that it had never rained until the flood.
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