Nope, it never happened. There's evidence of populations of people living elsewhere around the world before and after the time of the alledged flood event. Geological evidence dismisses a global flood event.
The people who wrote the bible didn't know that so got caught out on that lie too. The biblical tale of creation is also fiction.
Didn't the Black Sea suddenly flood many 1000s of years ago at the end of the last ice age when the ocean broke over the barrier and put hundreds of feet of water over inhabited land. The Hebrew bible is not the only ancient account of a catastrophic flood. There are a lot of the bible accounts that have been found to have some basis in the evidence uncovered by archeologists such as the total destruction of Jericho.
If the Black Sea flood occurred, it was a local event and not consistent with the world wide flood of the Bible.
I understand that, but to the people that survived the Black Sea flood which almost surely happened their whole world flooded and you know oral histories can get somewhat distorted. So there is a historical event that roughly corresponds to the biblical flood and some survivors. As to Jericho there is evidence that a hostile nomadic tribe (Hebrews) besieged and broke through and razed the place. They very well may have been aided by a seismic event at the opportune time. There may have been a fifth column (Rahab's family) in the city acting as Hebrew agents. Who knows what got abbreviated or left out or embellished in the telling but the story can easily be roughly true.
The problem was that it was grossly exagerated as a narrative to support their story. Shows another failure of god and raises again the issue of incest.
Originally Posted by mauserand9mm
Originally Posted by mauserand9mm
Originally Posted by Raspy
Whatever you said...everyone knows you are a lying jerk.
That's a bold assertion. Point out where you think I lied.
