Not sure how you got atheist over what was said. I merely pointed out that evolutionists make claims that are not true about Flood accounts.
Yes it does. Evolutionists would be saying the things they do if everyone had those accounts to read at home. Most people don't. That is why they get away with lying.
Well lets just hope that evolutionists have enough respect for their own religion of ancestry to be able to translate Sumerian accounts. Because all of the Sumerian accounts that I have (which are many) are translated by evolutionists. Even my Egyptian accounts are done by evolutionists. So lets hope they know how to translate their own religion. I would never trust evolutionists translating the Bible. Gees, atheists have already made false translations with the NIV'11 (which corrupts 40% of the NIV'84), the NRSV and NAB (all flat earth books). These translations are so obviously done by atheists its impossible to trust them. But at least they should probably show more respect for Babylonian antiquities since that is where their religious philosophies are traced to.
With that said, I have multiple translations of Flood accounts from Sumer-Babylon.
The Babylonian legends are firmly rooted in history. There is truth to them. However, God agreed with the Genesis account. That account also has an ark that floats.
That would only be true if the details of these accounts supported that hypothesis. Both these accounts, whether we are talking about the Genesis account, Babylonian accounts or whatever, they describe the ark above the mountains of the earth. When you read this stuff it cannot be a local Flood if the ark is above the mountains in all accounts. Only one account, the Eridu account, does not supply much for details and is very short without enough information to say much about it. I have that account and if anyone says it was either a global or local flood then they have not read the account. There is next to nothing for information in that account. But the Atrahasis epic and the more popular known Gilgamesh epic are global Floods in which the waters rise above the mountains just as we also read in Genesis.
I have no problem believing Genesis as the word of God. Some churches teach that Genesis never happened. But that is not the tradition of the church. So many churches today teach that Mark is the first Gospel written. That is not true either and tradition doesn't support it. Matthew was the first Gospel written which is why to this day its the first Gospel of the NT. I personally don't follow this liberal brand of Christianity as its too obviously fake. Therefore I live my life knowing I can trust God at His word and by doing so I am not stumbling over all these traps and zaps set by atheists meant to deceive us out of our faith. I just keep my eyes focused on Christ and don't care what liberals say about the Bible.
You are definitely implying that views such as evolution or a local flood as history are atheist views. That would mean those that hold them are atheists, which would include me. Basically your premise is a mistake -- they are not atheist views: the majority holding these views are not atheists.
Scholars, whether they are atheist, Christian, or Buddhist, use their expertise to be as accurate as possible. They do not "lie." Lying means deliberate deception. There is none of that going on. Are honest mistakes sometimes made? Yes. However, you are pretty safe if you stay with the consensus of scholars and shy away from those with eccentric views.
I also have no problem with saying that the Bible is the word of God. God chose to use many, many forms of literature in order to teach faith and morals and the way of salvation. This includes histories, letters, prose, poetry, apocolyptic literature, genealogies, myth, legal documents, proverbs, parables, and legends.
Although we may not be able to parse out all that is history verses myth in the legend of the flood, we CAN know that it was a local flood based on
1. geology
2. basic reasoning
For example, if there was a global flood, we would expect to see a layer of recent sediment at the same level around the world. It simply doesn't exist. Also, basic reasoning unravels core elements of the Noah story. For example, given the specifications of the size of the boat, it could not hold all the species of animals, birds, and insects, much less food for them, even less contain their waste products.
Noah is a teaching story about God and sin. No matter how loving Jesus and the NT God is, we can never forget that God does not tolerate sin, and that there are consequences that bite.
There is also a message in the tale for modern man, interestingly enough. If the LORD cared enough for each species to preserve it from destruction, whoa unto humanity for every species we drive into extinction.
