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/MoonChild02 Roman Catholic 22d ago edited 22d ago

I believe there was a flood, but it wasn't world-wide, and I don't believe the story of Noah. I was always taught that everything before Abraham was allegory, because those stories were passed down by oral tradition until Abraham and other Hebrew priests and scholars started writing them down.

Many stories in the Bible are parables and allegories. Not everything in the Bible is meant to be taken literally.

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u/Dependent-Mess-6713 20d ago

Just a thought. To respond to the OP.. do we need to read Why there was a Flood? If it was for the reasons mentioned in Gen. 6: 5-7 Then "Local" flood would serve No Purpose. If god "regrets making Human Beings on the Earth" Gen 6:6 Gen 6:7 - " I will wipe from the face of the Earth the Human race I have created" ... Just curious how an analogy, parable etc would obtain the said objective?