Noah and the long game

[pocaracas]

That reminds me of…

 

[TheButler]

Maybe it explains why the Egyptians thought of them as gods?

 

[Gorgias]

But if you believe all this literally happened, why do you think God chose such a complex approach instead of just getting to the end goal?

Read the whole story. Don’t stop at the rainbow.

The story isn’t about making the world safe for good people; it’s about the fact that each generation – heck, each person! – is responsible for their personal decision about acting morally.

 

[Kei]

I don’t see it.
But the hanzi have actual radicals which actually mean things, which can be helpful for actually memorizing the hanzi in the first place.

 

[Kei]

There’s actually a lot more, I mean it could be coinccidence, I just think it’s pretty cool.

Similarly it’s pretty cool to read about Shang Di.

 

[TheButler]

I don’t see it.

But the hanzi have actual radicals which actually mean things, which can be helpful for actually memorizing the hanzi in the first place.

I was just saying the shape of the water character reflects the atomic structure of water, the vertical stroke being oxygen and the two sides hydrogen, which of course is nonsense because the Chinese wouldn’t have known that (or would they?)…

I know. I have 日本語能力試験1級 (Japanese Proficiency Exam Level 1)… Like learning 右 (right) as a hand with a mouth because you put your right hand up to yawn or 左 (left) the hand you use to hold a ruler when drawing a line.

 

[Kei]

Hey that’s a good one to pass 日本語能力試験1級 I believe it is called jplt for short in English?

But I don’t see how 水 resembles H20. It does look like a creek though.

 

[twf]

You’re forgetting that for the YEC types (ChunkMonk subscribes to this model), the entire universe has only existed for 6000 years… the original world of Adam and Eve was completely destroyed by a global flood… and every human culture, from the Aborigines to the incredibly genetically diverse groups of Africa to Europeans to the first nations of the Americas, all descended from Noah a mere 4000 years ago. Absolutely defies everything we know about archaeology and genetics? For sure. But that is their belief. It is a belief that I doubt a single bishop subscribes to… maybe the SSPX bishops who aren’t in full communion… certainly no Pope has for decades…

 

[KevinK]

The question was: “But if you believe all this literally happened, why do you think God chose such a complex approach instead of just getting to the end goal?”
Your answer below doesn’t seem to me to have anything at all to do with the question.

The story isn’t about making the world safe for good people; it’s about the fact that each generation – heck, each person! – is responsible for their personal decision about acting morally.

 

[Gorgias]

The question was: “But if you believe all this literally happened, why do you think God chose such a complex approach instead of just getting to the end goal?”

Your answer below doesn’t seem to me to have anything at all to do with the question.

It really does.

I’m suggesting that, perhaps, you don’t recognize the “end goal” as well as you think you do…

 

[KevinK]

By end goal I mean destroying mankind and starting over with just Noah and family. There seemed no need for the elaborate Food and Ark method.

 

[Gorgias]

By end goal I mean destroying mankind and starting over with just Noah and family. There seemed no need for the elaborate Food and Ark method.

Right. And I’m saying that, in light of the epilogue of the story, the end goal isn’t “destroying and starting over.” Rather, it’s teaching us something vitally important about “good people” and “bad people”.