Comment on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015

Mon, 05 Oct 2015 09:31:29 GMT

Does that mean the bible which assumes that God wiped out most of humanity with the flood is definitely wrong

No.

a) The existence of an afterlife would mean that those people were not destroyed. They had a really bad day and then woke up someplace else.

b) The story of the flood, in itself, may be a parable (by which I mean, a story intended to teach a lesson, usually of a moral or ethical nature, without necessarily being true) like the parable of the Good Samaritan, or the story of the Garden of Eden.

c) There may have been reason for the flood.

Any one of these alternatives could answer your question; personally, I think (b) is the most likely, though (a) and (c) are also possible.

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