(sigh) Yes, that's my point. And there was this guy living in Judea (on the good side of town) named Shem Cohen. He was twittering about it the whole time, but then he dropped his cell phone in the flood, and his evidence was lost forever.
so more people than just noah survived? why did shem report that everyone died if he lived through it? why did noah need an ark if shem did ok in judea?
You'll have to ask a Jew. Honestly, one of the things I've never understood about Christianity is the maintaining of the Old Testament in the Church. To me, the OT was written for the Jewish people, who rejected Jesus as Savior. The New Testament is for Christians. Also, all I did in the first post was present a link to scientific evidence to corraborate the Book of Genesis' depiction of a great flood, if not necessarily a global flood. I never made a case for an actual person named Noah who really built an ark and filled it with animals.
Genesis 8:4 -- And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. I was taught in Baptist Sunday School that the Bible was God's Truth. The Sunday School teachers probably drew lots to see who had to take me each year, because they could never answer the simple questions that I asked. Finally they just settled on "We are not supposed to understand how the Holy Spirit works". I was thirteen. I told my mom on the way home that I couldn't waste any more time on a religion that no one was supposed to understand. I enjoy the Bible as literature and I never rejected God or faith, only the self-proclaimed Holy Men who make a living selling myths to good people.
Christianity is a Jewish sect. Christians worship a Jewish God, venerate Jewish Prophets, and hold the Jewish religious commandments sacred.
Well done. I don't memorize the Bible, other than John 3:16. :lol: I google'd Genesis and just did a quick scan for the end of the Noah story. Completely missed 8:4.:redface: Well, I guess like you I hold the faith close to my heart than the organized religion. That's a big question in my mind; why hold true to the tenets of a sect that ultimately rejected your savior?
You boys can debate religion all you want but the harsh reality is that I woke about 5:30 this morning, decided I would go for it one last time and was rejected rudely. Dayum!
