NOAH’S BIBLICAL FLOOD ACTUALLY HAPPENED, SAYS FAMED ARCHEOLOGIST WHO FOUND THE TITANIC

by ÁrbolesdeArabia 42 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  rebel8

  A few thousand years ago, over the course of many years, people who didn't know each other all wrote down books with various stories in them--embellished, fueled by hallucinations, bragging, exaggerations, deliberate fiction, attempts to explain Stone Age people couldn't yet explain--all with a tiny sprinkling of true facts mixed in.

  Ever since then, the same myths keep getting repeated and repeated, and few people actually question them, even though those myths are easily disproven.

  It seems as though it's mainly those who are caused pain by those myths who end up fact checking.
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  sabastious

  The story of Noah is a promise from God to man that salvation comes to those who meet a certain predetermined set of divine requirements.

  -Sab
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  srd

  This whole endeavor is endemic to pushing our own presuppositions onto ancient texts, rather than looking at them from the historical and literary contexts that produced them. For shame http://contradictionsinthebible.com/the-flood-narratives/
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  MrFreeze

  If a global flood happened, wouldn't we find salt deposits just about everywhere? Wouldn't there be no more fresh-water lakes? How did the fresh-water fish survive? Why couldn't God have just struck everyone dead instead of going through the flood ordeal?
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  Comatose

  Arbole - if god was going to make a flood and then use amazing magic powers to speed up time etc. then why did Noah spend 80 years doing the ark? Collecting food and such? Why not just use Holy Spirit to save all the animals and Noah? You can't invent fanciful magic to explain it. Either it happened and covered the earth and mountains and every animal died and it lasted 150 days or it didn't. IMHO.
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  ÁrbolesdeArabia

  talespin: I clipped part of the story about the "Black Sea" once being fresh water. Please explain how that is cherry-picking. What is the triple periods in English used for ... ?
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  Phizzy

  There are so many holes in the concept of a global flood that when my youngest son was studying with a M.S he asked loads of logical ,but damn awkward questions, in the end the M.S had to fall back on the "It was all a miracle by God" nonsense.

  As my son said to me after he had gone "It had to be a series of unbelievable miracles, not just one, and if so, what for ?" Needless to say, not long after this my son, in his early teens at the time, decided the JW religion was not for him, he never went to a K.H again.

  He is now a happy, successful, well adjusted adult, I am proud of him, not least for his critical thinking skills, which he obviously had from an early age.
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  heathen

  I think what's spurring this on is the discovery of underwater cities , I think the belief from the WTBTS was that the world prior to the flood was the one continent that had no mountain ranges and was flat so possibly easier to imagine a flood that caused the seperation into 7 continents and the pressure on the crust caused the mountain ranges to appear . sorry I did read the creation book LOL
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  Finkelstein

  When he states that the melting of the world's glaciers caused a great flood to occur, is pretty weak scientific speculation/theory.

  Every and any attempt to prove the flood of Noah occurred as it was mentioned in the bible has proved to be flop, why ?

  Because it didn't happen. What did happen though was that there was mostly likely a regional flood which devastated

  a certain area and from that real occurrence stories were told that a certain god caused the event as an act of punishment and retribution

  against the population that existed at the time.

  Since all great catastrophic events such as earthquakes , lighting and storms etc. were perceived by all ancient civilizations

  to be caused or acts of gods, stories were told to expressively connect a semblance power and relevance toward

  their own god or gods to whom they particularly worshiped.

  Since the ancient Hebrews were pretty much monotheistic, YHWH (their) god, was the god that caused this calamitous event.
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  hamsterbait

  So BASICALLY he is saying that a catastrophic flood did happen in the middle east that left an indelible impression, and influenced the myths in the region- much in the same way such floods did all over the world.

  Nothing big in this.

  By the way, why is it called the "Black" Sea??

  HB