It would be folly to approach the Biblical flood story as anything but myth. Like any good myth, the flood story illustrates important truths, and we do the story an injustice by treating it as literal history.
Creation sequence in NOAH: is it unbiblical?
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It would be folly to approach the Biblical flood story as anything but myth. Like any good myth, the flood story illustrates important truths, and we do the story an injustice by treating it as literal history.
You want to explain this?
All, as with all things, humans judge with the own biases. A Christian Jew will see the movie one way, a Russian Orthodox another way, a Christian Arab, yet another. The vast majority of so-called Christians do not have a clue how to live in the Spirit realm. So they judge from the only thing they know, the flesh. They try to put God into their own mindset and limit Him, Ps 78:41. The question is: is God please with the movie? He knows we don't have all the answers. What was in the heart of the director? What was in the heart of the writer? Only God knows. That doesn't mean we let errors slide when they are clearly written in the word of God, but we keep blowing up the bridge to see and recognize God to an unsaved world. A heart bent on finding the truth will always find the truth.
If something contains error and a believer knows it but the unbeliever has no clue it is still in error even to the unbeliever.
If the movie had 99 percent right and 1 percent false it still is a movie of error and no believer needs to watch.
That's the problem with many Christians, they take the mind set of ... oh I don't believe all this but I just want to hear what they say.
Then they get all these weeds of untruth in them and you know what weeds do left in treated.
You play with fire long enough your going to get burned.
Blessings
FCJ
That's the problem with many Christians, they take the mind set of ... oh I don't believe all this but I just want to hear what they say.
Then they get all these weeds of untruth in them and you know what weeds do left in treated.
You play with fire long enough your going to get burned.
Blessings
FCJ
I'd be glad to get into further detail. What specifically do you want to know?
None of us 100% correct. What if the one error in your hypothetical movie was an honest mistake? Should believers shun the movie? Should believers shun one another since we are all wrong about some things?
What exactly are you trying to say?
You said....It would be folly to approach the Biblical flood story as anything but myth. Like any good myth, the flood story illustrates important truths, and we do the story an injustice by treating it as literal history.
So let's look at the word folly
fol·ly
ˈfälē/
noun
- 1.
lack of good sense; foolishness.
"an act of sheer folly"
That's not what I said.
We only know it part so that means there is a lot or parts we don't know and this is like wholes in any doctrine.
That's one thing.
To willfully allow things containing error against the word of God into your thinking is yet another thing.
Why do you say that?
As for what I wrote, I don't know how much plainer I can make it. What exactly are you needing clarification on?
You said that a movie should be avoided by Christians if there is even a morsel of error, did you not?
So by watching "Noah", you think you are allowing error into your thinking?
It's your entire myth thing. Nothing in the written word of God is myth.
Yes that's the truth.
So you're saying that the flood story is not "a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events"?
OK, so can you answer the questions I asked you?
What if the one error in your hypothetical movie was an honest mistake? Should believers shun the movie? Should believers shun one another since we are all wrong about some things?
No I am saying the flood is truth. I am saying if it is in the word of God its truth.
Let's take this slow.
A 'myth' is defined as "a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events?"
Do you accept this definition?
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