Did God purposefully make crazy situations happen to make people humble themselves?

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It’s kind of a hard question to phrase but basically did God make the events in the bible hard to believe to humble us/ make us like little kids again. Let’s take Noah’s ark, for example, the event is really hard for an atheist to accept and therefore an atheist might see that and reject the whole bible. Did God do that on purpose to separate the closed-minded from the humble?
 
The Bible is not a history book, not a science book, it is not an almanac of weather.

The story of Noah is meant to teach us lessons, as we know if it were interpreted literally it does not stand up to reason.
 
I’m sure there are multiple purposes to most things in the Bible. It’s a hyperlinked text where something here references something there, there, and there. It’s a very deep and interwoven text. The stories in the Bible relate to other events and stories. As far as unusual or miraculous events, well that’s just it, they are unusual. Lots of mundane things happened too, but there’s not a useful reason to record them. Imagine the length of the Bible if Noah’s entire itinerary was included. “and on the 34th day of the flood, Noah washed some clothes and made a sandwich. And the meat in the sandwich was chicken. And upon the sandwich was a layer of bread, as it was also beneath the sandwich”. That would be a really long book!

I don’t think it’s meant directly to humble, but to show the mighty events that have happened, which is by itself humbling. So it serves to inform, to humble, and to continue the narrative of God reaching out to the human race.

There’s also a current ideology of not realizing how many crazy things are going on today. 1000 years ago if you had told someone that they are covered in invisible bugs that make you sick, they’d think you were crazy. If you told them you were on a ball that spins around another ball that spins around a spiral of balls that is fixing to collide with another spiral of balls…in like a few billion years…they’d think that was crazy or amazing. Yet it’s happening. I see the story of Noah as no more unbelievable than telling someone, without pictures, the story of WWII in about 3000 years.
 
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Dark matter and dark energy cannot be proved either, they are theoretical constructs. Yet atheists accept them without question. We can never fully understand God.
 
God permits bad things to happen but He is not the author of it. Take the book of Job. In the book, a satan makes a bet with God. He bets that His faithful servent, Job, only loves Him because of the blessings He gives him. So God permits this satan to do harm to Job. It cost Job alot, but in the end it did humble him.

God puts struggles in our life so it can form us into stronger human beings.

@TheLittleLady

The bible is a history book. It documents not only Jesus’ life and ministry but also the lives of Israel, from simple tribes to a mighty kingdom and beyond. All those names in the OT and Matthew and Luke mean something. It documents a blood line.

If what you say is true, and the story of Noah is just an allegory and never happened than Noah being documented as apart of Jesus’ bloodline in the book of Luke is lying to everyone.

Are lessons to be learned from the historical tales in the bible? Yes, but that doesn’t mean it is purely allegory and never happened. That train of thought is what the diests like the freemasons use to justify their non-belief in the supernatural miracles of both the OT & NT as well as the divinity of Jesus Christ.
 
Scripture was not written as a history book. Different parts of Scripture were written as testimony, as the written version of legends that were passed down orally, as allegory, as poetry, as instructions, as inspiration and on and on.

Not once did I say that the Sacred Scriptures are purely allegorical. We must, however, understand the different senses of Scripture.

Read the Catechism for starters, begin at CCC: 115 According to an ancient tradition, one can distinguish between two senses of Scripture: the literal and the spiritual, the latter being subdivided into the allegorical, moral and anagogical senses. The profound concordance of the four senses guarantees all its richness to the living reading of Scripture in the Church.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p1s1c2a3.htm
 
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