When Noah built his Arc


A number of ancient civilisations having legends about a flood might more be evidence about the documented way in which archetypes repeat in human culture and borrow from each other (the king who has to be sacrificed, for example, the trickster, the shapeshifter, the fool) than about there being actual worldwide floods.
 
Most cultures worldwide tell similar mythical stories of great floods, where most civilization was wiped out and survivors came back to start it again. Its likely that these stories refer to the end of the ice age, during the Younger Dryas period c. 12,900 to 11,700 years BP. Noah's 'Arc' is likely one variation of myth that has been passed down through the generations and ended up in that form.

So yes massive sudden climate change like we can't imagine.

There is an outstanding documentary on Netflix currently called Ancient Apocolypse for those interested. Its amazing stuff.

I watched that Ancient Apocalypse series. Some beautiful scenery mixed in with a MASSIVE amount of utter bullshittery from the narrator.

If you read the Wikipedia pages for all the places he visits, almost everything he mentions has been debunked.

Really interesting to see all these places, but don't believe a word the narrator or any of his guests say.
 
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He did it because YHWH wanted to murder all the men , women , children and babies on the Earth to show how much he loved them. Then he killed his own son to stress the point.
 
A lot of biblical tales are very similar to other, more ancient stories.

Almost as if they had been passed down through generations and ‘modernised’ to enable the teachings to be passed down in a way that resonated with the target audience of the day (and helped further establish religion).
Yes and we need to remember that the original Hebrew religion was Elohist from Abraham unto Joseph and then only with the arrival of Moses became Yahwist. Abraham had migrated from Mesopotamia and must have known of the old Zarathustrian concepts and legends of the Avestan speaking people who had close connections to the Vedic people of the Indus Valley. Lots of recycling of legends and concepts from the Vedic Indians to the Elohist Hebrews who all followed theistic religion.
 
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