Biblical Literalism

[gbrooks9 (George Brooks)]

@Mervin_Bitikofer

This challenge presumes that “explanation” (with all the modern scientific trappings of that word) is what I am aiming for. Understanding is a more realistic aim, I think. And that will get derailed if we aren’t first willing to consider what words and claims meant to the audience of that day, such as “earth”.

If you want to say the Bible scribe made a MISTAKE in thinking the Flood was a GLOBAL one … fine.

But there is NOTHING about the Biblical version of the flood story that can be interpreted as regional flood.

I will agree that regional floods INSPIRED the story … but it is not a story ABOUT a regional flood. No regional flood ever reached the Ararat mountain range.