I went searching around EvC and found a topic that was similar to this that was started in 2002 and closed later that year for going off topic. However, this is a question that I've had rattling around in my head since having the discussion with ICANT on the nature of time.
Bible literalists believe the Bible to be true. They will argue that Flood did happen because it says so in the Bible. The aftermath of the Flood is that there were eight human survivors: Noah, his wife, their 3 sons and the wife of each son. From this population of eight we balloon to a population of 6 billion in the modern day. Now we know humanity has a dizzying array of various beliefs, many that are polytheistic with extremely few monotheistic faiths. We know that Noah, his wife, their sons and wives were monotheistic and believed in God.
So:
1) Noah, wife, sons, and sons' wives believed in God (knew God to exist).
2) Noah and company experienced an event that showed the awesome might of God.
3) Noah and company are the ancestors of all people.
Now it would seem to me that having witnessed what God did to sinners, they would've made certain that their children, their children's children, and so on down the line would have kept to the faith in God. Yet in only 500 or so years, you have Egyptians with their polytheistic beliefs, the East Asian traditions and Hindus with their polytheistic beliefs, the Norse, Greeks, and Celts with their polytheistic beliefs - the point being that nearly all belief systems around the world subscribe to polytheism. So in 500 years you go from a certain belief in one God to many, many polytheistic faiths.
So how can anyone explain this apparent immediate forsaking of a belief in God whose power was proven just a few hundred years prior? How is it that we can get from eight people with one belief to the variety of beliefs we have today especially if those eight people knew, for a fact, that their belief was true?
Edited by Izanagi, : No reason given.
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