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If you’re Christian, do you really believe in the stories or are they just to teach you lessons? For example, do you really think Jonah was swallowed by a whale or that Noah actually put all those animals on the ark?
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Yes they’re real
Eh idk
Not real
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Anonymous 2d

Some of them are real, some of them are metaphors, some of them mean something else or are trying to teach a lesson/moral

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Anonymous 2d

All those are symbolical they are not literally true

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Anonymous 1d

Not a christian but if you believe your god is all-powerful and can do literally anything it seems weird to cherry pick which parts of the book you believe and which parts you call metaphorical. It looks bad on yall when the book says something happened and yall go "nah i don't believe it, it's too hard for my guy, must be a metaphor"

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Anonymous 2d

I believe with God anything is possible, so in my opinion all the stories are literal.

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Anonymous 2d

i think it depends. i believe noah actually did the ark but i believe jonah died and came back, not that he was swallowed by a large fish

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Anonymous 2d

If you believe that the events are true then it contradicts the bible. We would see geological evidence of a flood of the size described in the bible, but for some reason there isn’t any…

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 2d

thoughts of fossils of marine animals being found on the top of mountains?

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Anonymous replying to -> yakittyyik 2d

Simple those areas were submerged in water at one point in time. Water levels can change over millions of years

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 2d

or a flood that submerges mountains & brings marine life where they shouldn't be.

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Anonymous replying to -> yakittyyik 2d

What makes you prefer one hypothesis (massive flood) over the widely accepted one? (changing water levels and tectonic plates)

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Anonymous replying to -> yakittyyik 2d

Mountains were once on the seabed, and were uplifted by tectonic plates. Marine fossils on the top of mountains are fascinating, so thanks for the reply. The layers of the earth would reflect a catastrophic event of that size, but don’t.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 2d

thoughts on exquisitely preserved fossils?

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Anonymous replying to -> yakittyyik 2d

observed throughout history and not evidence for a global flood, fossils are only there cause of tectonic shifts

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Anonymous replying to -> magenta_bitch 1d

I chose other for this

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 1d

you need to look into theology to educate yourself.

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