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> I find the idea that the world's flood myths (Noah, Atlantis..) relate to catastrophic flood events. Religions tell us about past catastrophes and promise fut
by humanrebar 12y ago
> I find the idea that the world's flood myths (Noah, Atlantis..) relate to catastrophic flood events. Religions tell us about past catastrophes and promise future ones.
...except one of the morals of the Noah story is that nothing but God can help you when God calls your number (1). Prepping for the big one isn't a very biblical idea. The general advice of the Bible is that you could be dead in an hour, so preparing your soul for eternity is way more important than a bag of flour (Luke 12:16-21).
Being ready for hurricanes or what-have-you would fall under general wisdom, I guess. But I don't think it's directly addressed in the Bible.
(1) There's also the moral that God wants to redeem humanity despite its flaws. It's not a bleak story, fundamentally.
- netcan 12y agoStories develop over time and they pick up the morality of the time when they are being told. For an analogy, there are speculations that the mythological story about “Helen of Troy” relates to customs of basically… kidnapping women in raids (they were a seafaring culture) at the time Homer was writing. So, we get information about the morality of the culture doing the writing but also information about earlier events. For a repetition of the pattern, the trojan war itself was fought by people of a culture had already “collapsed,” followed by a dark age and was in the process of rebooting. They were transcribing oral traditions and that’s why we know the Homeric stories today, the writings of the early revivalists. Maybe Homer’s great grandma had a basement full of canned soup and a nice cabin in a strategic location.