What's The Flood Real Or Was It Just A Myth

[locusts]

what's the flood real or was it just a Myth // – this is a question that many people ask-- And the Bible gives us this information to inform us that there was a flood--- And many people of other nations have their own version of a flood ??-- so with this in mind -- And many top documentaries on the Flood gives us a reasonable and possibility that there was a flood-- As for me the Bible is my expert and that's what I believe..

[naomi24]

By the way, locusts, if you want real answers you won’t find them at ‘Answers in Genesis’.

[nailit]

//And many people of other nations have their own version of a flood//
So?
Other nations have fire breathing dragons in their mythology as well. Do you believe in fire breathing dragons?
Their are many flood stories and all are found in cultures that have been in flood plains. You wont find a flood story in Japan for instance because Japan has never been prone to flooding.

[royfromaus]

Of course it was real.
Back then, we were like cavemen, But we map the moon and the stars. Then we forgave them.

[Peter Pedant]

// /many people of other nations have their own version of a flood//
True ... so what makes the biblical account any more special than the rest?

so I think ........ that is a yes - to a bible question
showing boys and girls that even someone who stoutly, defiantly, nay intrusively calls the Bible a load of old crap day after day

may then consider the odd thing or two to be historical

I was reading somewhere having tired from the same old stuff on AB, that even in NT times ( 'another load of old crap' - a deep thinker) the Jews knew the earlier bits of the OT were mythical ....

tale of Gilgamesh - but that is confined to mesopotamia innit ?

[Peter Pedant]

.// You wont find a flood story in Japan for instance because Japan has never been prone to flooding.//

no ! none at all, not then not now !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cnvemp451dgt/japan-floods

jesus

[nailit]

PP,
some people in modern Japan getting their carpets wet isn't the same thing as a planet getting getting wiped out is it?
Jesus!

[nailit]

God ordered Noah to build an ark.
The Hebrew word for ark was box (as in 'ark' of the covenant)
Literally a box.
No sails, no mast, no stern, no aft, no rudders, no motors or means of transport etc.
A box. And this box *sailed* for weeks (full of livestock) and no other culture on earth had a sea-fairing vessel better than a box?.
Your're **itting me.

[royfromaus]

Watch your mouth son or you'll find yourself floating home.

[nailit]

The Egyptians have thousands of years of unbroken history as well.
Seems as though someone forgot to tell THEM that they were once flooded.

[Peter Pedant]

// Seems as though someone forgot to tell THEM (pharaohs) that they were once flooded.//

er that might bebecause it happened once a year so they er sort of didnt need to be told
BUT
they dug dry well sort of near the Nile ( nilometers) and when there was a flood ( er yearly, remember) the water level rose and they assessed taxes on it

jesus - or should I say moses?

[Peter Pedant]

// Japan getting their carpets wet isn't the same thing//

an old duffers' home wasnt evacuated quickly enough = the Japanese waiting around for instruction apparently, as they have done before
and so they watched as they floated down to their deaths

slightly more than wet carpets - jesus

[nailit]

PP,
NOBODY floated to their deaths in ancient Egypt or Japan.
Keep up!
Some cultures are prone to flooding more than others. (the ones with flood myths)
Japan is not a culture that recognises a world wide flood.
(Other nations had boats and ships and sea fairing vessels etc anyway)

[retrocop]

My God. We are getting deluged with effluent this evening. :-(

[MallyJ]

Good grief...its locust/theland and Youtube again. Why do people keep asking what others believe when they have no desire to listen and accept what those people say but read fairy tales and watch Youtube and believe in all that guff? Each to their own I suggest and stop trying to convert others.

[andy-hughes]

Locusts, when you are posting, please put // at the beginning of a post you are responding to, and a // at the end of that post.

Do not put // at the beginning or end of your reply - it's making following your posts difficult.

Thanks!

[Peter Pedant]

// My God. We are getting deluged with effluent this evening. :-(//

no I think it comes in - - spurts

[jno]

a possible explanation for the flood here, PP: rising oceans after the Ice Age melt breaking into the Black Sea

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/evidence-for-a-flood-102813115/

No great surprise if that lingered on in Sumerian folk mythology too and informed the Gilgamesh story; Sumer's not that far off.

The meltdown seems to have caused problems in the Nile valley too:

"virtually no evidence exists for human occupation in the Nile valley between 10,000 and 6,000 BC"

http://www.egyptorigins.org/prehistory.htm

I think the floods were real, and it was more than just localised heavy rains; though I don't know whose god instigated them or why.

[naomi24]

The Epic of Gilgamesh pre-dates the bible.

[jno]

Gilgamesh draws on an earlier Akkadian myth; the biblical story may draw on earlier stories as well. The flood predates them both. In oral cultures, remarkable events could be remembered without being written down at all at the time.

[THECORBYLOON]

If all the mountains were covered by the flood, the level must have been as high as Mount Everest.

Where did all the floodwater go to?

What did the animals from the Ark feed on once they got off it? As all the other animals on land had drowned, what could they eat?