Noah's Ark

There are two among many reasons that I subscribe to bibilical accuracy.1) The most important tenant of Christianity is that Jesus was fully God and fully man, incapable of violating His character, the Law of Moses in the Ten Commandmants and thus could not lie. When Jesus stated in any version of scripture I am aware of, "As it was in the day of Noah they were marrying and giving in marriage and the flood came and swept them all away." Also, He stated, "For by one man sin entered into the world and death through sin."2) The bible never talks about ice caps regarding the flood but rather forty days of torrential rain and the breaking up of the fountains of the deep which can only refer to enormous underground reservoirs being released as well. One has only to review the hydrological power of water as evidenced by Katrina to grasp that the conbined effects of the rain and reservoirs would easily have changed the entire geography of the early earth.Jesus leaves skeptics and liberal Christians little room; either His version of history is correct or He is a liar.

First, the metaphor would not be understood unless one had read Sherlock Holmes or was as familiar as you with the stories and the character. If so the person would know it was all a fictional account which with some sketicism contains a method of reasoning "inductive in nature" which can be used for real life reasoning.The people of Jesus' audience were Jewish and well schooled in the first five books of the bible from the second group the Scribes and Pharisees. They interpreted these books literally and knew that Jesus was describing in the one case the end days and directly comparing it to the days of Noah. There is no reason to believe He was talking metaphorically. I never said He was writing history.. rather quoting the only authoritative history available to the people of His day.

Your statement is entirely false. Nowhere did I refer to a bibilical statement that the bible is true and thus because it is true you can believe its statements are truth.I stated that a central tenant of Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, is that Jesus was fully God and fully Man and that God's character is such that He cannot tell a lie since that would violate His character. Thus Jesus statements as recorded by multiple authors and traditions proclaim that Noah's flood and the end of days and original sin were actual historical events accepted by all Jews of His day. They would have taken His words literally and not figuratively. When He spoke figuratively as in parables He announced it clearly as such.