So you have this alien being, (alien as in not a human), residing inside you giving information to you?
Basically, it's not head knowledge, it's heart knowledge.
I'd have to argue this. Your heart sends blood around your body, it doesn't do anything else. The only knowledge you can possibly retain is through your brain. The Egyptians didn't know this, and discarded the brain, (I'm surprised most christians don't do the same). I can only assume you mean a 'feeling', but just hope that one day someone can clarify the whole thing so us no-god knowing people can understand better.
I really don't know much of anything about other Flood accounts. Sorry. Just off the top of my head, perhaps Noah's children told the story around the campfire a lot, and remember, soon after the Flood people were scattering all over the place, and it became just that, a story. Stories have a way of changing with the telling, but later people started beleiving it again.
Yes that's very true. What we do need to recognise however is that the Sumerian flood accounts were written 2,000 years before the biblical version, and as such take precedence. The biblical version shares many similarities with the earlier Sumerian version, and it is widely accepted that the biblical version was indeed based upon those earlier versions. Purely out of interest, I would urge you to read other versions.
I don't know. But I still think the one in the Bible is true. It's been written down at least since Moses' time.
It's strange.. but earlier you were telling me how you "know the entire bible is truth", now you're telling me you just think it is, (a part of it). If you know, you know. It's as simple as that. However, and here's a problem: If you haven't read the other versions, (which you agree to), then you have no possible comparison with which to claim the biblical version as the true one.
It's like only ever reading one book, which claims the moon is made of cheese. You would undoubtedly believe it, because it's the only book you ever read concerning the issue, but unless you take the opportunity to read other texts concerning the same issue, you'll never know the alternatives.
It's easier to do what someone tells you to do if you fully understand why you're doing what you're doing.
Well before telling Noah about the animals, god does give him the full workdown. He explains how he's going to kill every living thing on the planet, down to the slugs and maggots, with water. There's little reason to believe these people were stupid.
Nobody had ever even seen rain
Does the bible actually say this?
Actually if Noah owned goats, he probably took more than two, for food.
Yes, 7 if they were kosher. Don't forget, god required some animals for sacrifice.
What I would ask, is that you spend a week at a zoo, and then you'll see just how impossible this entire story is. Do not forget when you go there, that a zoo only has a handful of the enitre collection of animals that exist on this planet. Noah would have had every single one, (save for sea dwellers).
One more thought: the voyage of the Ark was designed to be survivable, not comfortable. I don't think it was easy or fun, but it got the job done.
So as I suggested, spend a week in a zoo with just you and your family. You'd all most likely be dead, as would half of the animals.
Regards.
