Reading Time: 4 minutes How many of your favorite Bible contradictions are in this list? This time, it’s two versions of Ten Commandments, creation, and Flood stories + resurrection and Jesus changing the plan.
flood
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New Zealand thanks God
Reading Time: < 1 minute Relief efforts are underway in New Zealand after their worst flooding in history. This morning, a welcome force for good joined the government agencies. God (6,027), a familiar face to Jews and Christians everywhere, was seen donning a reflective vest and helping move some sandbags. “No one, to my knowledge, prayed for this specific outcome,” […]
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From the Fall to the Flood: How not to fix a problem you created
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Fall is a thoroughly problematic theological mechanism at the best of times. But if you combine it with other terrible concepts and events, it looks even more incoherent. Most understandings of God entail an OmniGod conception: God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-loving. All-knowing or omniscience also includes divine foreknowledge—knowledge of all future events and […]
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Debunking the Genesis Flood I
Reading Time: 7 minutes I can’t believe I’m going to have to do this, but it will hopefully be useful to some people. I am going to run through the gamut of arguments in the hope that someone like Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong recognises the terminal problems associated with a Mosaic authorship of a literally true Pentateuch in terms […]
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Ruddy Flood Thing Again. And Armstrong.
Reading Time: 18 minutes Dave Armstrong has supposedly refuted my refutation to his refutation of my claim that the Noah’s flood myth is a good example of the multiple sources of the Pentateuch evidenced by both redundancies through repetition and contradictions. Just to let you know, my position is wholesale accepted by pretty much every single Hebrew Bible scholar […]
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Armstrong, the Genesis Flood Contradictions and Multiple Sources
Reading Time: 16 minutes Oh, David Armstrong. David, David David. I will try to be as cordial as possible here but please excuse me if I let off some rhetorical steam at times. I recently posted a piece on the documentary hypothesis as exemplified by the Genesis account of the flood, although I should probably say the Genesis accounts […]
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The Flood Myth Contradictions Explained by the Documentary Hypothesis
Reading Time: 3 minutes I am knee-deep in a bunch of research, and some of it every technical, all surrounding dating of the Pentateuch and concerning the Documentary Hypothesis. For those uninitiated, the Pentateuch contains some irreconcilable issues that fall into four categories: repetition (redundancy), contradictions, discontinuity, terminology and style. There is only one coherent solution: it was compiled […]
Posted inHistory
Dismantling the Noah Story
Reading Time: 4 minutes The movie didn’t care much about the Bible story, so let’s go to the Bible to see what the Noah story really says. It’s actually two stories.
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A Review of The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the story of the flood (Guest Post by Peter)
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s been known since the 19th century that there are striking parallels between the Ark story contained in the Bible and a narrative episode included in the Mesopotamian story of the Epic of King Gilgamesh. In Gilgamesh, a hero Utnapishti is tasked with saving both human and animal life from a destructive flood (for which somewhat surprisingly, no reason is given) by the god Ea. Like Noah, Utnapishti builds a boat, fills it with animals, and finds himself lodged on the top of a mountain. What’s more, just like Noah, Utnapishti sends out birds on three test flights to establish that the flood waters were receding:
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The Leaky Noah’s Ark Tale (2 of 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some concluding thoughts about the Noah story: the original protagonist (it wasn’t Noah), a critique of God’s omniscience, what the rainbow really means, and the real reason why God launched the flood.