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[lemondiesel]

Where is the evidence for a worldwide flood event?

we look at the worldwide flood even through writings and teaching of past civilizations. The biggest help in knowing that most of these religions believed in a flood story was from the Chinese. They had a flood story, different people of course. Its a good breakthrough because at the time, China was very different from the other Indoeuropean nations (due to the Himalayan mountains)

but to continue, thanks for the feedback first of all guys this has been SUPER helpful. But another question that rose to my mind reading your comments is what if God was not a person/idea/higher being, could someone argue that God could be the connection between all living things? I do not mean this by, “God is in all living things and in our hearts”

I’m a history minor and i have just been reading ancient religions and i ask this because as our catholic/christian beliefs spread in the middle east, the people in places like early americas for example were much closer to earth and believed in a higher one being, but not as a person but as feeling/spiritual connection with all creations

and before commenting, i know this idea looks like i just watched the movie Avatar (lol ) , but its not. many of the uninfluenced beliefs that were not connected to the eastern world.

 

[Robintrinket]

we look at the worldwide flood even through writings and teaching of past civilizations. The biggest help in knowing that most of these religions believed in a flood story was from the Chinese. They had a flood story, different people of course. Its a good breakthrough because at the time, China was very different from the other Indoeuropean nations (due to the Himalayan mountains)

but to continue, thanks for the feedback first of all guys this has been SUPER helpful. But another question that rose to my mind reading your comments is what if God was not a person/idea/higher being, could someone argue that God could be the connection between all living things? I do not mean this by, “God is in all living things and in our hearts”

I’m a history minor and i have just been reading ancient religions and i ask this because as our catholic/christian beliefs spread in the middle east, the people in places like early americas for example were much closer to earth and believed in a higher one being, but not as a person but as feeling/spiritual connection with all creations

and before commenting, i know this idea looks like i just watched the movie Avatar (lol ) , but its not. many of the uninfluenced beliefs that were not connected to the eastern world.

This seems to be pantheism. People are all made by God, in His image, and when we have sanctifying grace, He dwells in our souls, but we are indivduals and can make choices. And if God is not an intelligent being with humanlike qualities like us (although He is greater than us and beyond our understanding–we are in His image not the other way around!), but a “feeling/spiritual connection”, isn’t that saying that we are higher than God, that intelligent beings with human qualities came from something that is not intelligent and has no similar qualities? A “feeling” cannot create. Seeing God as a “feeling/spiritual connection” is the way the peoples in the early americas’ knowledge of God was distorted.

 

[StrawberryJam]

we look at the worldwide flood even through writings and teaching of past civilizations. The biggest help in knowing that most of these religions believed in a flood story was from the Chinese. They had a flood story, different people of course. Its a good breakthrough because at the time, China was very different from the other Indoeuropean nations (due to the Himalayan mountains)

but to continue, thanks for the feedback first of all guys this has been SUPER helpful. But another question that rose to my mind reading your comments is what if God was not a person/idea/higher being, could someone argue that God could be the connection between all living things? I do not mean this by, “God is in all living things and in our hearts”

I’m a history minor and i have just been reading ancient religions and i ask this because as our catholic/christian beliefs spread in the middle east, the people in places like early americas for example were much closer to earth and believed in a higher one being, but not as a person but as feeling/spiritual connection with all creations

and before commenting, i know this idea looks like i just watched the movie Avatar (lol ) , but its not. many of the uninfluenced beliefs that were not connected to the eastern world.

Most religions believed in a flood story= flood story is true?

 

[James_S_Saint]

Most religions believed in a flood story= flood story is true?

A **metaphor **is a story of conceptual accuracy, a **true **event, but told by switching the more complex spiritual concepts with material, analogous nouns.

 

[StrawberryJam]

A **metaphor **is a story of conceptual accuracy, a **true **event, but told by switching the more complex spiritual concepts with material, analogous nouns.

True is defined by a believer in what way?

What is truth? How do we define it?