Early chapters of Genesis as philosophy

I like that. We can learn something from the Bible even if the events depicted didn't really happen. God protects the righteous and cleanses the unrighteous.(I've also been thinking lately about the parallels between the Flood story and the Sodom-and-Gommorah story.)

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Sure. It's easy to make the connection to baptism for the surviviors.But Phat said "all living things". What I thought he was suggesting, and what I am suggesting, is that the Flood story can be thought of as a cleansing of the whole earth, a cleansing of "all living things".In that sense, there is no need for it to be an actual event. It has meaning as a story, just as any fictional story has meaning.In fact, the connection to baptism is stronger if the "event" was not real. A baptism has only good effects - it doesn't drown the "unwashed" bystander.

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