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Do you believe the story of Noah’s ark is literal or figurative?
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Literal occurrence in history. Whether the flood was worldwide or regional is something I wonder about but I don't question the overall account. I also tend to believe the account as there are a number of flood 'narratives' in different cultures, First Nations in particular
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It's not just a "story". If we start thinking that every event in the bible is just a story then why would we trust that the crucifixion and resurrection actually happened too?
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It wasn't regional, the entire world was transformed
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Have you ever seen a movie that starts off saying “Based on a true story”?
There’s true stories and fake stories.
Both are stories.
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We don't know this. The peoples of the "world" weren't scattered until the Tower of Babel event, AFTER the flood. Might this speak to a regional event? Just to clarify-I don't take a position of worldwide or regional.
Transformation happened at the Crucifixion.
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Cool! Like what?
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Would that make it ecumenical? Hehe
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The article ends with the question: "If God is omnipotent, why not kill what He wanted killed directly? Why resort to a roundabout method that requires innumerable additional miracles?"
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So do you believe that Noah’s Ark was just a figurative story?
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That question is interesting, I didn't read the article btw because that question alone sounds like a complaint against God, I mean seriously as Christians we know for a fact that the lake of fire is reserved for the devil and his angels and followers and that it exists so why should we have doubts about a former judgment?
It's silly to question where all the water went when you take all the scientific measurements by pure faith and yet find that a talking Donkey or a virgin birth is more impossible than being resurrected unto ever lasting life... is life itself not that great a miracle?.. It's certainly the greatest of all mysteries to mankind and Darwin was no closer to the truth than ancient greek thought, evolution is nothing new to man and in several thousand years from now we will be the new "ancient" and they will call it something else.
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It would certainly seem to be unless a slew of miracles were performed over the years of the construction and gathering of the animals.
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Literal. But I wouldn't say the bible gives the whole story here, more of a summary, specifically in regard to reason. According to Clementine literature, one of the big reasons for the flood was the Nephilim - the offspring of Angels and human women that are not only described as giants, but man eaters.
I don't see how the story can be figurative, and some sort of local flood is out of the question in my mind for various reasons.