Do you believe in the story of Noah and the ark (and if you do what do you believe about it)?

Catballou said:
Absolutely not...science has debunked it time and time again. And what a horrific story of genocide. The "loving" God got pissed off at the "sinners" he made and drowned everyone...including innocent children...except for Noah and his family. And that's just the beginning of the fairy tale story. There is something seriously wrong with anyone who believes it.
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Forget about the manipulative picture religions have created for their gods and what they are supposedly responsible for and what they did. Instead as has always been the case, powerful ruling classes have been the actual bad guys. Consider how God (or UIEs) oddly for such a supposedly advanced entity doesn't ever defend himself in scripture created by earth monkeys. Even obviously for we modern humans stupidly immoral sections. As in not actually from god. Very evident in how Jesus condemned practices of religious elites that were merely puppets of rulers.

An advanced race of aliens in space craft could easily influence atmospheric weather in order to create limited river basin floods that would totally destroy human lives within, especially if that was what to them were excessively morally corrupt humans. From that perspective not at all surprising. If one carefully considers the Ten Commandments and OT scripture, the primary offense points to centuries of secksual issues, human sacrifice, murders, endless senseless warring, and the powerful subjugating the weak and defenseless.
 

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When you consider all the history, technology, experience, knowledge, that current humans have to fall back on.....and then look at how very easily so many are influenced/duped, is it so amazing that people back then, who didn't know they were on a planet, might exaggerate tales that were passed from person to person?

Noah might've been just a guy who wanted to save his camels and a couple sheep...then, with each retelling, because people have always loved one-upmanship, the story escalated from there.
 
LadyEmeraude said:
It is a myth to many and true to others...

What don't you believe about it?
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In Genesis 6:18, God says to Noah, "But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you."
There's so much in the Book of Genesis that contradicts itself. Had I said that at my Catholic school I would have probably been damned, they might even have expelled me.
Like the story of Adam & Eve, I think that Noah and the Ark is a metaphor, but then I was always a little heathen!
 
I don't believe Noah's flood ever happened. It's too absurd to take seriously. When I was five, my Sunday School teacher used a flannel board to create images of Biblical stories by placing flannel figures and objects on a flat flannel board as we sat on the floor learning Bible basics. On many occasions she would use the same flannel figure of this one old man over and over again. He might be Noah in one story or a wise man in a manger in another story.

I was entertained by the stories, and the way the figures and objects stuck to the flannel board was almost magical, but I don't remember believing the stories with any real depth, certainly not to the blind level of belief I witness in some adults today.
 
Do you believe in the story of Noah and the ark (and if you do what do you believe about it)?
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Uh, as told in Bible school when I was little, even then I thought it was a bit of a stretch. Ancient writings that have been translated many times through numerous languages & often deviate substantially from the original writing. But even so, the Ancients had many beliefs and world views that prove to be erroneous nowadays.
But, I believe there was a man named Noah, and perhaps he did receive a message from God to build a vessel and collect animals, but back then "the world flood" may have been a more local event, as hypothesized by the Black Sea Hypothesis.
 

Do you believe in the story of Noah and the ark (and if you do what do you believe about it)?​


Yes, I believe it all, as written

I also believe in The Lord's words:

Matthew 24
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
 
ohioboy said:
Grow up. Saying that only shows your ignorance. A persons faith that comforts them does not make them a fool!
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Hey, I have no problem with people having faith, but many devout Christians are intelligent enough to realize that the Noah's ark story is just a metaphor. If you think it actually happened, I'm not the one who is ignorant and needs to grow up.
 
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As an interesting aside I read some true stories written by George Keen in anti-bellum Florida.

He was a white farmer and not a rich man, though he did own a few slaves. In one of the stories he spoke of the difficultly in believing the bible because the Noah story would mean he and black people had descended from a common ancestor. He wrote this at a time and in a place where such thoughts were not considered a bad thing. A very different perspective.

The book is a very interesting read:

Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams​

https://www.amazon.com/Cracker-Times-Pioneer-Lives-Reminiscences/dp/1570033463​


The other author, Pamela Williams was my great great aunt.
 
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