Re: Another Moonie Deception, Noahs Ark Symbolical; make that *global* vs *local*

From: Martyn Harrison (nospam_at_spammers.of.the.world.unite)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:48:03 GMT

Apparently on date Sun, 26 Sep 2004 14:59:43 GMT, Josef Oswald
<J.Oswald@pure_joy_gods.love> said:

>"A Person claiming to be" : Gordon Muir announced to the
>awestruck audience on 25 Sep 2004 11:28:30 -0700:
>
>> but this moonie follower is talking to Noah like it really happened
>> and was true,THIS MAKES ME SUSPICIOUS OF THE TRUTH OF THE WHOLE
>
>If it was locally yes, as this Noah does not tell how he collected _all_
>animals from the whole world, because as Gordon points out it would be
>impossible to collect animals from all _over_ the world. Yet a local
>flood was very much likely. ( Do we really know how much the biblical
>writers added to the story ?)

I would judge that most sci.arch readers are of the opinion that the Noah story
is a retelling of a prolific tale originating in Mesopotamia about a river
flood, the tale itself evolving over the centuries.

It's hard not to see obvious similarities in phrases / storyline between the
various versions of the flood story, and it traces back to the earliest
literature in that sense (e.g.
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm not that I
warrant this specific website is accurate as such...)

For all I know the Moonies might want to believe the old testament is older
than all other early literature, but that's an ark that doesn't float well
considering the "history" in the OT claims that the Jews were still slaves in
Egypt when Egypt clearly had the ability to keep records.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/sa/SAIRC/1997/50.html