You were there? Amazing!
susie
You wonder about whether he was there, but you accept my outrageous contention two posts earlier that I was?
See my home page for my documentary evidence. (Hint: "... somewhere they broke a dam ...")
Try being Sherlock Holmes instead of a 5 year old in sunday school. Obviously this Noah biblical account was a myth built around a true story of survival in a hurricane. In 1900 there were similar stories of people being washed out to sea in Galveston and yet miraculously surviving. They told their stories to the press and then it was all glossed over by later news, nobody remembers now...
5000 years ago there was no press, no literacy; the only way this “Readers Digest” book section about an ancestor surviving a hurricane in a unique way, that could even be remembered, was by family history telling. Thus little embellishments get thrown in here and there, generation by generation, and a MYTH grows in this little pakistani tribe : WE are the most famous and special people in God’s eyes because of NOAH! Young ABRAM swallows it whole...
Hitler understood the power of MYTH very well : aryan superiority. Millions of people, many of them jewish children, died in WWII in part because of that MYTH. This then is why many pass the bible off as mere stories for children. The ocean never did cover all the land, it was just Noah’s limited perspective on being out in the middle of it. 15 cubits = 22’ deep water = storm surge in a type 4 hurricane(cyclone in those parts). His raft washes up on an outer sand bank, they have to wait for low tide to wade back to the true shore.
So, re-read Genesis, this time learn to separate the truth from fantasy. Although a mythical character himself, Sherlock Holmes routinely did that, the master detective...