For Clarity, Theists This Is How You Sound To Atheists

Mar 16, 2017 15:55:59 GMT @zackbop said:

Ancient people did not treat history the way modern people do. They weren't interested in getting all the meticulous details correct (which, as you said, wasn't even possible). They often put a "legendary spin" on a historical event to drive home a point that related to their contemporary audience.

It's mythology in the sense that it's not necessarily literal history.  You don't need to believe that a snake literally talked to Eve.

I don't think people overall are interested in detailing history now.

Outside of scholars on a particular topic, what has always been important in history is getting the basic information since that is likely all that will be carried on throughout time.

It is difficult to see this happen while we experience and especially now, but eventually everything gets boiled down to the essentials.

The essentials regarding Biblical history is not details of a global flood since there is no way a Bible writer would even know how big a global flood would have to be for the entire thousands of years it took the Bible to be completed.

The important thing was why there was a flood and that there was a flood substantial enough to be recorded as historic in the first place.