re: Noah had dinosaurs on the Ark...

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Agreed. But that doesn't really answer the question if folks believe that God created the Earth in 6 days chronologically or metaphorically.

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We still have a 7 day week... but yes, I believe it means in six literal days. I believe this because of the "And the evening and the morning were the (1st, 2nd, etc...) day." part of the verses.

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At most there was a really bad regional flood and Noah put a bunch of local farm animals on a boat and it turned into this absurd story. At the least it is completely fabricated to teach a lesson. You also believe in Jonah and the whale? This coming from a Christian.

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Nearly every civilization on the planet has great flood myth. Ancient civilizations in Africa, Asia, the Americas and of course Mesopotamia all have an eerily similar version of the story.

God flooded the earth to punish/cleanse us

A chosen survivor saves a bunch of animals

Rebirth of civilization



Something happened.

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We still have a 7 day week... but yes, I believe it means in six literal days. I believe this because of the "And the evening and the morning were the (1st, 2nd, etc...) day." part of the verses.

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everything in the Bible can't be literal. If the entire Earth were flooded, how did the animals reach Australia? And, why are the animals in Australia unique to that continent. On some level, evolution is true. So the story of Noah can't be 100% actual fact.

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Something happened.

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Civilizations built up around water sources. Water sources flood (did you watch the news last week?). Therefore, civilizations told stories about flooding. There’s your something.

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On some level, evolution is true. So the story of Noah can't be 100% actual fact.

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Both can be true, in my opinion.

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Civilizations built up around water sources. Water sources flood (did you watch the news last week?). Therefore, civilizations told stories about flooding. There’s your something.

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They all told nearly the exact same story because some local flooding? Also, nearly every civilization has stories about the people before the flood living for centuries. It’s a global phenomenon.

Did God come down and tell one guy from every civilization to build a boat and save a bunch of animals? I have no idea. But it’s weird that every ancient city across the world has a nearly identical story.

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Did they?

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Pretty damn close

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Pretty damn close

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I don’t know. The Mesopotamian ones were (that includes your Biblical story), but there’s a reason for that, and it’s not that Noah’s ark was real.

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Because I believe the Bible? Okay.

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Yes, because you believe the bible. A book put together 325 years after jesus lived...books chosen and rejected based on the will of some dudes 325 years after the fact. Some gospels that completely contradict other gospels that were rejected. A book put together that says the Earth is 6,000 years old. A book that says that if you don't accept the Bible's version of God, you are going to hell...yes, it says that.

So, if you believe the bible, you also have to believe that the majority of the people on Earth (82.3% or so) are going to hell, regardless of the life they lived. That, friend, is the definition of illogically crazy.

John 3:18 - "Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son"

2 Thessalonians 1:8 & 9 - "He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might."

Revelation 21:8 - "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

So, to get around this clearly insane belief, you will just tell me that it means something different. It's the convenience of being Catholic ("The Bible is real and we have to believe everything as written except for the things that obviously don't make any sense...THOSE things need to be interpreted.").