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Both the atheist and the lost Catholic and liberal Protestant need to avoid the eternal damnation that the disobedient "disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water" (1 Peter 3:20) are suffering. And yet the prevailing Catholic scholarship and the present leader of them to whom Catholics are to look, denies the literal nature of the Flood, and make Climate Change the object of fear:

New American Bible on Genesis Chapter 6:1-4: “This is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology.”

Pope Francis: The flood is the result of God's wrath , the Bible says. He is a figure of God's wrath, who according to the Bible has seen too many bad things and decides to obliterate humanity. The biblical one, according to experts, is a mythical tale. (Now I hope someone doesn't argue that the Pope said the Bible is a myth!) But myth is a form of knowledge. The flood is a historical tale, archaeologists say, because they found traces of a flood in their excavations.

A great deluge, perhaps due to a rise in temperature and the melting of glaciers: what will happen now if we continue on the same path. God unleashed his wrath, but he saw a righteous one, took him and saved him. The story of Noah demonstrates that God's wrath is also a savior. ( Corriere della Sera: https://www.corriere.it/cronache/21_febbraio_28/papa-francesco-libro-verra-nuovo-diluvio-se-non-cambiamo-strada-clima-ghiacciai-40967eb8-7959-11eb-bd61-f38514671054.shtml Bing translation./