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Originally Posted by KnifeMissile
It depends on what you mean by "mirror" the great flood of Christianity. I don't know what all these other flood myths are so I can't say anything about them. The only similarity you've mentioned is that they share a flood. While this is an unmistakable similarity, it's also a superficial one...
All these flood myths can be explained by a singular flood, multiple floods, human imagination, or some combination thereof. Disregarding all other factors, I'd be inclined to agree with you and it was probably a single flood.
However, there are many other factors to consider. Why aren't all the flood myths the same? Why don't literally all cultures have flood myths? Do all cultures assert them as more than myths? How would such a flood happen? Where did all the water come from and where did it all go? If a great flood wiped out all the Mayans, for example, why were there still Mayans?
In light of many other factors besides the existence of flood myths, the other explanations that would, otherwise, seem less likely, seem much more plausible. Context is everything...
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Was “The Flood” truly universal or confined to planet Earth? Did God just “spit the dummy” with his terrestrial kids, or did he drown ALL extra-terrestrials sinners too? (Surely He wouldn't leave himself open to being accused of being Jewish
and planet prejudiced.
)
If it’s the latter, what did he use to sadistically asphyxiate his wicked kids on
parched planets. I mean, why would a “God” need water, or any other physical medium for that matter, to rid himself of his delinquent kids?
If His clearly psychotic personality
compelled Him to drown mankind like so many unwanted kittens in a sack, why, like his comparatively compassionate creation, Adolf Hitler, couldn’t He have snuffed them painlessly with a global whiff of Zyklon B, if he needed a mortal medium?
It seems to me that Hitler was far more humane than the Jewish God whose people this kindly killer compassionately Holocausted!
Indeed, I have a daughter who is a drug addicted prostitute. According to God’s commandments and His own biblical example, I should have her stoned to death or drowned! In spite of this, I can’t even bring myself to hate her enough to self-righteously “rebuke” her for her “evil” lifestyle.
Does this mean I am more tolerant, merciful and loving, and consequently, if Christian’s claims for loving Him are to be believed, more
worshipful than God?
Jesus Henderson…it does have a certain ring to it, doesn’t it?
