tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505987796745947211.post5163922578756562701..comments2024-01-08T20:25:59.084-05:00Comments on Relevancy22: Contemporary Process Christianity: Post-Evangelic Topics and Theology: Part 1 - How Are We to Understand "Noah and the Flood?"R.E. Slaterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07236791303306154165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505987796745947211.post-82355287737537412252012-07-10T11:21:31.247-04:002012-07-10T11:21:31.247-04:00Please forgive the lateness of my response. I was ...Please forgive the lateness of my response. I was dealing with a death in my wife's family which prevented my attention to this blog site. Recently I've taken the time to update and expand this article's content to provide further background in my initial assessments.<br /><br />However, as you have noted we do differ substantially from one another's understanding of the Flood. My intention when first forming Relevancy22 was to update evangelic Christianity using contemporary discoveries and findings in science and archaelogy primarily from an Christian evolutionary perspective. As such, the biblical account of the flood must be seen in comparison to its ANE setting and not apart from it.<br /><br />Overall my main concern was to describe why bible stories should not be considered as ancient Jewish myths or compared to Marvell comic books and their mythologically superior heroes. If the Bible is mythic then so too can the comparison be made to Christ's atonement. Hence, I refute this mythic appendage of ancient bible stories and have attempted to describe the Flood's theological importance for the Jewish/Christian faith of today.<br /><br />This was my primary concern. Thank you for your response.<br /><br />- resR.E. Slaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07236791303306154165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5505987796745947211.post-85939089137712775952012-07-04T03:13:16.427-04:002012-07-04T03:13:16.427-04:00The above article is flawed when it states: "...The above article is flawed when it states: "The oldest [account of a worldwide flood] is a Sumerian narrative (The Atrahasis Epic) which was later used by Babylon to create their own account of that same regional catastrophe (The Epic of Gilgamesh) and then by Israel a little later in the Old Testament's retelling of Noah and the Ark found in Genesis 6-9". There is most certainly historical evidence that the Atrahasis and Gilgamesh epics were written LATER than Noah's account of The Flood. The various and numerous accounts of a worldwide flood found in so many cultures across the globe can then be explained as the re-telling of that cataclysmic event, albeit then significantly corrupted in the re-telling of the story. The physical evidence for the Flood of Noah is evident from the world's sedimentary rocks, which could only have been laid down by huge volumes of rapidly-moving water carrying masses of sediment. The trillions of fossils equally bear witness to the instantaneous burial of creatures and plant life by the Flood waters. Genesis 1 was God's account of the creation of the universe, recorded by Adam, and passed on to Noah. Noah and his sons wrote the history of the Flood, and later patriarchs wrote the remainder of Genesis. Moses edited Genesis and edited/wrote the other 4 books of the Torah in around 1400 BC. As the above article notes, the book of Job was an early book, probably written about 2000 BC, around 3-400 years after The Flood. At the end of this book of the Bible, Job gives an excellent, detailed description of two contemporaneous dinosaurs.TonyBennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12058012561717308238noreply@blogger.com