I don’t know how to answer a question about the Flood

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With God flooding the world why did he drown children and babies too so I don’t really know how to answer that. This guy and me are talking and he said if your God is so loving why did he drown all those people and I read more about it and I understand why but I don’t know how to explain it
 
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BoomBoomMancini said:
Noah’s Ark probably shouldn’t be taken literally. It’s an allegory.
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Noooooo way. It was very real. Other ancient cultures record also of a world wide flood.

Why God allow it? Because if sin.
 
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There may have been a flood, but the idea of a male and female of every species on a boat is clearly not literally true.
 
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Not everything in the Bible is meant to be taken literally. For example, with the creation story in Genesis. It’s not a scientific account of the Earths formation; it’s a story designed to help us understand a moral truth.

Just because something isn’t literal doesn’t mean it’s not true.
 
For us, we can accept that God judged to souls of children and babies justly and entrust them to his mercy. Even if they came to a violent end here, they may very well have eternal bliss with God and, even in their short time, have had valuable experiences. But as an atheist doesn’t believe in God, he can’t accept that.

We could delve into the topic of what it means to say that God is “perfectly good,” and therefore better understand the good God does in our lives and the acts of love and mercy in our lives, but that may be a bit heavy.
 
BoomBoomMancini said:
Not everything in the Bible is meant to be taken literally. For example, with the creation story in Genesis. It’s not a scientific account of the Earths formation; it’s a story designed to help us understand a moral truth.

Just because something isn’t literal doesn’t mean it’s not true.
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So you want to pick and choose what was real and isn’t??

Your waking on very dangerous waters.

You believe Jesus died and resurrected on the 3rd day, and was literally lifted up into heaven? Or is this just a fable illustration only also?
 
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So the Catechism affirms a primeval event. Meaning it did take place.
 
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What does that really mean thought. Define what to accept as real or not. Real water covered the earth or not?
 
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The whole biblical account on Noah’s flood is way too detailed to be some myth. Guess there will always be skeptics of the scriptures.
 
The idea that everything in the Bible is 100% literal is actually a relatively recent fundamentalist invention.
 
BoomBoomMancini said:
The idea that everything in the Bible is 100% literal is actually a relatively recent fundamentalist invention.
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I think so. I agree that there’s stories that can be allegorical in nature.

The flood points to Christ. The ark represents Jesus Christ. The water, his water baptism. That why we need to baptize infants, so they are saved.
 
Does the Bible say God drowned babies? It doesn’t.
Tell your friend if they want to know the mind of Elohim, they need to take their own journey and read Scripture. Everyone’s path is different. “Be as innocent as doves, but also wise as serpents.”
 
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