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noreasonjustrhyme
3/23/2005 7:17 PM
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Do you believe the story of the great flood and Noah's ark actually occured, or is it a fable designed to teach a lesson?
If it actually occured, does that prove that God is flawed and makes mistakes?
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kaihados
3/23/2005 8:19 PM
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It's an interesting question. Most every ancient creation myth that I know of has a flood story.
Is the story of Noah’s Ark true or mythological? The answer, I think, is yes!
Kai
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rbethell
3/24/2005 10:13 AM
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There is no doubt a real basis for the ark story. There are many stories from the Mesopotamian area of a farmer who survived a flood with his animals by building a boat - Noah, Gilgamesh are the more famous ones.
That said, it is important to understand what the theological meaning is for Catholics. It isn't that "God erred" - the cleansing aspect of the Genesis variant of the flood tale prefigures Baptism for us - God washing our sins away and starting over.
Nature finds ways to clean and purge that seem violent to us. In a sense there is a certain Baptismal violence too - dying to self, and rebirth in Christ is a drama played out at Golgotha and the Tomb.
But it is the radical nature of baptism that the story prefigures for us - baptism is like destroying a whole world, and then rebuilding a gleaming new one in its place, washed clean of its stains.
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noreasonjustrhyme
3/24/2005 12:05 PM
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Why has He not cleansed the world since?
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