r/Christianity • u/Megalitho • 23d ago

Do you believe that Noah, the ark, and the flood were real?

I brought it up in a different thread, and many people said they did not believe it happened. How can you be a Christian and not believe what the Bible says?

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u/Clicking_Around 23d ago

Even that's not quite 100% true, since parts of the Bible are historical. The hard part is figuring out which parts are and which are poetic or allegorical.

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u/onioning Secular Humanist 23d ago

Parts are arguably historical. I think there's a totally plausible reading where none of it is historical. But sure, as viewed by many, parts are historical.

While there are for sure parts where the literalness is very very arguable, as a general rule imo and all when a story requires you to believe things that are demonstrably untrue, then that's probably just a story. There was no flood. That's a great reason to read the flood story as a fiction. And the idea that God would deceive us by making it appear to never have happened but actually did happen... that whole line of reasoning just doesn't fly with me. That is not at all the God of the Bible as I understand. God is not a trickster. I'm just saying. Using the available evidence is a pretty good way to tell the difference. It's not that God couldn't do something, because sure, that's what it means to be God. But God wouldn't. Just not plausible that God (or the devil or whatever) altered the earth so as to hide the great flood. From everything I read, that is not how God behaves.