Once again, I feel very conflicted after reading Cosby’s thoughts on the flood account. I just really don’t like the idea that maybe none of these stories are true – if so, how do we know what of the Bible is fact and what is just a nice story to prove a point or explain something?
Letting go of how personally upsetting this whole idea is, I have to admit that it does make a lot of sense. I think the only real issue I have with it is why is it that the vast majority of Christians past and present believe all these stories to be true? Did they just not want to question it or did they see something that we’re missing? It seems odd that such an ‘obvious’ conclusion about the flood or creation or the tower of Babel would have been overlooked by so many historical and biblical scholars and that it isn’t the accepted norm of Christianity. That just doesn’t seem right to me. I really can’t argue with the idea, though. And I have definitely grown more comfortable with the thought of it the longer I sit with it. But it still unnerves me somehow.
I suppose if I were ever to fully accept this idea as fact, I would have to be given an explanation as to how anyone is sure that, if the Bible actually isn’t 100% true, how do we know that it’s not 100% false? That just seems like a slippery slope to me.
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