Catholic Scientist writes:
Jesus doesn't have to be saying that the flood actually ocurred in real life if he is just referencing a story, that he knows is fictional, but that the audience was familiar with and probably believed.
Then it seems an incredibly poor choice to use a fictional story as an analogy to one that you want to present as being true. If the audience knows it is fiction then in essence Jesus is informing his audience that it is just a story; instructive and with moral tones, but not true. If the audience does *not* know it is fictional, then Jesus is equating another story with a lie they were too gullible to see through.
Either way it seems clear that Jesus is either incompetent or lying about the "coming of the Son of Man".
mike the wiz writes:
Rest-assured, I have thought it all through, as per usual.
ICANT writes:
If I don't know the answer what am I supposed to say I don't know.