Why was there a need for a global flood?

In the topic "http://EvC Forum: Does the evidence support the Flood? (attn: DwarfishSquints) -->EvC Forum: Does the evidence support the Flood? (attn: DwarfishSquints)"
codegate stated:It would have been simpler if "God" had simply stated all animals except Noah's family and one pair of the unclean & 7 pairs of the clean will now die. Why go through the rigamarole of a global flood. If a person believes in let there be light then why not the above. If all that is meant in creation is magic let it be all.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Added that "?" to the topic title.

My point exactly. Talk about.If by chance a flood were to have occured at ~5000 years ago and is talked about today, said flood would have to be greater than any previous known flood.So lets return to the period in question. Where is the civilization who is affected by the above flood? The answer is Mesopotamia. The Flood story in the Bible was obviously carried to Canaan by Abraham. Where was Abraham from? Ur, of the Chaldees, which was at the area of the delta of the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers. Now in the mindset of the people of the time what was the whole earth? It would appear that what was considered the earth was Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf and the surrounding land. Thus a flood covering the entire area of Mesopotamia would be considered covering the earth. Why a flood? If a flood story which starts out in Mesopotamia 5000 years ago, is carried to Canaan by Abraham and told to the following generation it would most likely be changed as is the normal case with the spoken word. The Flood became a total destruction of life save for those in the Ark.
Thus the reasoning which starts as a severe flood, becomes a global flood do to the character of those first telling, then transcribing the story. Why does God need a flood, He doesn't, any more than he, if he exists, needs humans trying to say what he did or did not do. Edited by bluescat48, : spelling & diction

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

Excellant point.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

Yes and then wait for those happy men in their clean white coats coming to take you away to the funny farm.

How do you know what the people at the time of Noah believed? What about those nowhere near Mesopotamia how could they know what Noah was doing and why?

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

Now we come to the jist of the matter. Whether or not the Torah is correct. Where is the evidence that the Torah is correct and not just mythology like the Greek, Roman, Norse stories. If the Torah is mythology, and many believe this, then how can the flood be justified and why a flood in the first place. Why kill innocent children & animals?

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

No you haven't, all you have done is paraphrased scripture.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

again I ask how could those who knew not Noah, thus God, even attempt to repent when they would have no-one to repent to. Ie Australians, Eskimos, Maoris etc. peoples who lived thousands of kilometres from Mesopotamia. I would doubt that the Egyptians would even have heard of it.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

According to the following

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

There is no evidence that the peoples of Australia died out and were replaced later. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Off-topic banner.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

No proof of such totally hearsay. Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Off-topic banner.