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Don't Panic
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Uhm...oky doky...I find that a rather odd argument. It's also getting quite away from the flood story, so I will simply add that the lack of belief in the gods of Gilgamesh's time, has little to do with the fact that they have stories written on stone/clay. FWIW, most projections show that Muslims will out number Christians within a couple decades by current trends. I don't really see how you think there are 'so many' who believe in your god today, but if it floats your boat...No, not a dambuster smash, just another one of the 1000 pieces of the puzzle deconstructing a literal narrative...much like climate evidence, or the invisible Moses, what a weird Egyptian name...'son of'.
Well hopefully with each piece there's a little resolve.
Yet Yahweh didn’t bother to nudge for a little bit stone help. The oldest Hebrew is about 3000 years old on some broken clay.
This 'stone help' would be to who's advantage?
If you look at it rhis way, this stone nudging seems to be more of a disadvantage to those faiths, so to speak. The question you could ask is : Who believes in Gilgamesh now, even though he's written in stone?
It seems God of the bible versus 'all those written in stone' is the most successful, I can see why He needn't bother nudging any stones when He will have had many believe in Him... still to this day.
Back to the world wide human killing deluge tale...even if the majority of Americans believe this silly tale as historical, I doubt a majority of the preachers/theologians do. I know the vast majority of mainstream Protestant theologians most certain don't believe it is real history. It seems that the RCC leadership is at best neutral on the subject, but they certainly don't argue for its historicity. And it seems you avoid providing a perspective on just when you think this massive event could have happened...