this is silly. we do know that it would have been 100% impossible for Noah to have every animal on the planet on an ark. He would not be able to build one large enough nor would he be able to store the food each needed. Also all the fresh water sea creatures would have died as well as the vast majority of plant life on earth. So barring some magical interference it would not have been possible. Also being as there isn't any actual evidence that it occurred there's no reason to believe in it.
Originally posted by LDHZenkai
this is silly. we do know that it would have been 100% impossible for Noah to have every animal on the planet on an ark. He would not be able to build one large enough nor would he be able to store the food each needed. Also all the fresh water sea creatures would have died as well as the vast majority of plant life on earth. So barring some magical interference it would not have been possible. Also being as there isn't any actual evidence that it occurred there's no reason to believe in it.
Well God gave him that task to do. And I believe that if God gives someone a task he will open the way up. Therefore making it possible.
Originally posted by Kinkin
Its been a while I guess I remember it wrong,I tried reading it once for the stories but reading it all, I gave up after a few pages if I remember right.
the point is that after genesis, the first story in the bible about adam and eve, God essentially plays a major role in the lives of humans in every other story of the OT.
Originally posted by Kinkin
If I read it for 2 hours every day, roughly how long would it take me to read it ya think?
no idea, never read it.
Originally posted by Tonks
Well God gave him that task to do. And I believe that if God gives someone a task he will open the way up. Therefore making it possible.
Originally posted by LDHZenkai
The problem with that is that God has done nothing in recent history that would lead anyone to believe he was real. Are we to believe that in the 2009 years since jesus' death there hasn't been anything worth getting involved in for God? Even in the past 100 years nothing has happened that God has wanted to get involved in? Yet back in the day he would get involved in all sorts of random, trivial stuff? Either God is someone who intervenes, or he's someone who doesn't.
Well I am not going to argue with you on that one. I believe that he has intervened in the past 100 years. The only reason that it looks like he intervened is because you have a whole history (The Bible) that gives testimony of it. You are looking at today but you dont see it the same.
Originally posted by Tonks
Well I am not going to argue with you on that one. I believe that he has intervened in the past 100 years. The only reason that it looks like he intervened is because you have a whole history (The Bible) that gives testimony of it. You are looking at today but you dont see it the same.
Originally posted by LDHZenkai
Yea but the Bible was written about 300 years after the events it details supposedly happened. So we have the fact that no one really knows if anything in the bible is true, more than likely it's not. Stories tend to get changed and embellished when past around to 3 or 4 people, let alone thousands of people over 300 years. Now that we have proper ways of documenting events there have been none to document. That further leads me to believe that nothing written in the bible happened anyway near like it's recorded. If it had at least been written a year or so after the events it would be at least marginally more believable. And the reason we don't see things the same today is because we can explain events with science. Science wasn't around back in the time of the Bible so if something happened they didn't understand they assumed it was magic. It's like the Native Americans old belief that if you took their picture it stole their soul. They know it's not true, but they firmly believed it then.
It's best not assume something based on how you view reality today. Reading the Bible I do notice a clear change in the way God operates. In Genesis and the books of Moses he's very visible, all through to the Judges and books of the major prophets, but as we wind down to the NT we see a less visible God, appearing in dreams etc. The Bible describes the latter generations as "those who believe without seeing", essentially as we go further the rules change, belief becomes more and more dependent on faith.
There are some who still claim to witness miracles and other otherworldly occurrences, what is true or not, is ultimately up to an individual; even within the "magical" ages of the Bible this was the case.
Originally posted by Allankles
It's best not assume something based on how you view reality today. Reading the Bible I do notice a clear change in the way God operates. In Genesis and the books of Moses he's very visible, all through to the Judges and books of the major prophets, but as we wind down to the NT we see a less visible God, appearing in dreams etc. The Bible describes the latter generations as "those who believe without seeing", essentially as we go further the rules change, belief becomes more and more dependent on faith.There are some who still claim to witness miracles and other otherworldly occurrences, what is true or not, is ultimately up to an individual; even within the "magical" ages of the Bible this was the case.