To ask a stupid question? Noah's Ark

Where did I say that you cannot deny? I said that I personally cannot. You can deny whatever you like, you can mock, you can blaspheme, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you will do so without consequence.

Nice little threat at the end - believe or else

There is a Day of Judgment coming and every single one of us will give an account for what we have done. God warns us not to mock Him: 'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' Galatians 6:7.

Again, whoever reads that on here can respond however they like. But God calls us all to repent of our evil. Not only does He in His kindness warn us, but God incarnate, the Lord Jesus Christ, out of love for sinners took the punishment for those who do repent 2000 odd years ago on the cross. 'But God commendeth his love towards us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' Romans 5:8. If we repent from sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ He promises to forgive us, Romans 10:13.

Where did I say that you cannot deny? I said that I personally cannot. You can deny whatever you like, you can mock, you can blaspheme, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you will do so without consequence.

There is a Day of Judgment coming and every single one of us will give an account for what we have done. God warns us not to mock Him: 'Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' Galatians 6:7.

Again, whoever reads that on here can respond however they like. But God calls us all to repent of our evil. Not only does He in His kindness warn us, but God incarnate, the Lord Jesus Christ, out of love for sinners took the punishment for those who do repent 2000 odd years ago on the cross. 'But God commendeth his love towards us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' Romans 5:8. If we repent from sin and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ He promises to forgive us, Romans 10:13.

Wtf?! Are you threatening her or is this a hereafter fire and brimstone consequence?

Where did I say that you cannot deny? I said that I personally cannot. You can deny whatever you like, you can mock, you can blaspheme, but don't fool yourself into thinking that you will do so without consequence.

Oh yes I can.
I can deny it second by second, minute by minute, and so on.
Do not tell me what I can or cannot deny, particularly when you are telling me that such incredible bullshit. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and processing power, can deny such ridiculousness

A year? At a university?

The fact that you're using such emotional and ideological language makes me wonder why you're so invested in something you think is pure nonsense.

I’m not religious, but IMO there are plenty of Christians nowadays who don’t take everything in the Bible literally, and can accept that in bygone eras had to find ways to explain things they didn’t and couldn’t understand.

I don't understand how anyone can believe in religion in this situation. Once you accept that most of your holy book is a story, how to you decide "but not this bit, this thing definitely happened" when there is no more evidence than for any other part.

Oh yes I can.
I can deny it second by second, minute by minute, and so on.
Do not tell me what I can or cannot deny, particularly when you are telling me that such incredible bullshit. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence and processing power, can deny such ridiculousness

I'm a Catholic. Do I believe there was a righteous man called Noah? Yes. Do I believe he built an ark and put a whole bunch of people and pets on it? Yes. Do I believe God's wrath and mercy were involved in a big ass flood, yes but was it global? Meh probably not.

With respect, I think you do not understand what happened. Yes, God destroyed the wicked. And yes, the Omniscient, Creator God destroyed babies. I am guessing, being Omniscient, He knew that those babies and children would grow up to also rebel against His law. Again, Noah preached for 120 years warning people. 120 years...

Yes, I believed and now I know, because when you are born again, it's a supernatural work. If I said I 'believed' but didn't 'know' I would actually be lying. I cannot deny what I know is true.

I remember being taught even back in the 60s that those biblical events could have had natural causes and of course that will be what happened.

But when Christians agree (as they mostly do) then they are admitting that all god's actions were not his at all, but just natural events that the priests used to fool people.

Which is accurate, but I wonder how Christians can handle the contradiction.

Sincerely, if you truly seek God and seek to know Him you will. Just as God warns the people in Noah's day he does today. He has given you free will.

If I didn't know Him and know this to be true, I would not be spending the time writing this.

Oh and in my childhood bible Jesus was a blonde haired blue eyed man.

It was a global flood. Read the account in Genesis 6.

Three quick thoughts on it:

It was a global flood: 1.The whole purpose of it was to kill everyone who would not repent, I.e. everyone on the earth, bar Noah, as he and his family were the only people who feared and loved God. Of everyone else the Bible says 'the thoughts of their hearts were only evil continually'. Noah preached for 120 years warning people and what did they do? They mocked him.

It was a global flood: 2. What was the point of bringing two of every animal on the face of the earth into the ark if the flood wasn't global. The account in Genesis 6 states that the purpose of the flood was to destroy all living creatures on the earth.

It was a global flood: 3. God does not break His promises. He cannot because He IS Truth itself. He made a covenant that He would not globally flood the earth again. That was the whole point of the rainbow. We wouldn't be here if God hadn't shown mercy to Noah and his family.

This is not an exhaustive list. Read the Bible. The world lies. God doesn't.

No and I've even studied Geography for a year. I used to just believe what they told me there, that it was billions of years old and such. But now no I believe it's just caused by the flood.
https://g3min.org/the-flood-matters-the-grand-canyon-and-the-age-of-the-earth/

In order for a fossil to take place, it must undergo a swift burial that prevents a total decaying process of bones and preserves the animal from the elements which speed up the decaying process. In addition, this burial also conceals the animal from other wildlife and scavengers that would otherwise consume the meat and scatter the bones. To have such a large number of fossils preserved in the rock layers is indicative of swift burial that occurred during a cataclysmic event.
Any serious student of the Grand Canyon formation must face the reality that the fossilized sponges, squid, and other sea dwelling fish never lived in the Colorado River. The theory of the Colorado River cutting away rock layers over millions of years simply doesn’t hold up to the massive amount of evidence in the rock strata of the Grand Canyon’s walls. While the fossil records contradict the evolutionary theory often told about the Grand Canyon, they do not explain what actually happened.

LOL.

There is a photo of a fossilised boat shape on or near Mt Aratat. I know the dimensions of Noah's ark are given in the Bible (in cubits, which is the length of elbow to fingertips) and i wouldnt be at all surprised to find that they match. I can't post the photo but it'll be Googleable.

Biblical genre is a bit more complicated than that... In the Bible there may be allegory and poetry, but Jesus and Paul certainly spoke as if many old testament stories were historical events. I'm also not sure if the story neatly maps onto these symbols in the way you've stated. Jews hearing these stories through thr centuries certainly believed them to be historical events, and their additional symbolic interpretations would be considered void if they were simply myth.

It probably didn't happen. There's an awful lot in the Bible that probably didn't happen.