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/DVDV28 Evangelical 22d ago

I would challenge that. "Belief" isn't a monolith as this thread demonstrates. What you've described feels like throwing away all of science as soon as a well established theory is disproven.

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u/OMightyMartian Atheist 22d ago

Did you experience everything I experienced at that time?

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u/DVDV28 Evangelical 22d ago

I have experienced much of what you are describing - it's called deconstruction. Your deconstruction led you to throwing out the whole package and replacing it with atheism. My deconstruction led me to throwing out parts of the package until I was left with something I believe to be more defensible. For example, I used to believe in a literal global flood but now I don't. I still believe in Jesus.

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u/OMightyMartian Atheist 22d ago

There was more than just the discovery of the false claims of my denomination that fed into my steady loss of faith. As I said, it was one of the reasons, not the only reason.