Posted: Dec 08, 2016 5:37 am
If god can extend a man's life to 500 years (or 900) then is there really any further leap of faith required to think god didn't just preserve all the bugs, and solve all the unsolvable problems that render the ark implausible? It's why this falls on deaf ears with creationists. One magic can be any magic.
One does have to wonder though, if god is really capable of all that, why the fuck was the flood even required? Wouldn't a snap of his fingers kill off all the evil humans instantly? Ha! Your god is weak.
When I was little and in church, I think we were taught more pragmatically than the literalists teach. I seem to recall asking how it was possible to flood the entire Earth. I recall being told it was figurative and it was just a flood of all the world as far as Noah knew existed. The rest of the planet wasn't really flooded. Of course, even that was contradicted at times by other teachings. Can't nail a puddle to the wall.
One does have to wonder though, if god is really capable of all that, why the fuck was the flood even required? Wouldn't a snap of his fingers kill off all the evil humans instantly? Ha! Your god is weak.
When I was little and in church, I think we were taught more pragmatically than the literalists teach. I seem to recall asking how it was possible to flood the entire Earth. I recall being told it was figurative and it was just a flood of all the world as far as Noah knew existed. The rest of the planet wasn't really flooded. Of course, even that was contradicted at times by other teachings. Can't nail a puddle to the wall.