Again, I was reminded that I wasn't giving Friday homework.(SORRY)
For those of you new to the blog (as it is being published in new places as of about a month ago), I used to give some assignments on Fridays. My goal in life is to get people to LOOK and see what else is out there. What are they missing? What will get them to look outside the box they sometimes wall themselves up in? The answer is inspired research.
When studying metaphysics and even when in Sunday school, some things just didn't make sense. I mean, we know incest is wrong. Yet, let's think. If Noah's family were the last living people on earth, then we really are all related. Literally. The reason the story of the Great Flood comes to mind is that I am reading a book about time before recorded history. I don't want to let the name of the book out yet because I don't want to make the homework too easy. I will let you all know on Friday. Many have probably read it.
There are instances in this book of many stories of a great flood. Many are different (for example there wasn't just one couple left), but they all share a similar theme. In many the flood didn't cover everything, and I have to believe that. After all, finding THE one mountain above all else, and it wasn't the world's tallest...how does that happen????....allows us to see that we have to take the literalness of religious tests with a grain of salt. I am also not sure God was a proponent of incest and just left Noah and his family alive. A man who was supposedly a drunk too, the Salvation Army will tell you how God feels about drunks....it just all doesn't make sense. But, the fact is there are many similar stories in many cultures all around the world. Now, just becasue there are great flood stories, does not prove that "THE way" is Christianity, because as you research you will see that many with a flood story have no other components of Christianity. I am sure they put their spin on it just as all the other cultures did. In fact there are over 60 similar , and original stories in cultures WELL before the onset of any "Bible" stories. Noah would have had to be a tale of a story that happened much earlier that was passed down.
So this weekend's homework is to see if you can find any of those flood stories other than the "popular" one of Noah and his family. With 60 some original , and even more variations of the theme out there, it shouldn't be difficult. They are in cultures all over the world. Christianity is only one of them. We all know about Noah, who else should be know about???
Learn, research and grow!
Peshaui Wequashimese
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