Comments by "" (@obsidianjane4413) on "The Pre-Biblical Origins of Noah's Flood" video.

Oh there was plenty of punishment let out by the old gods too.
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Interesting point. "Sorry, my bad." lol
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Handwave something about god magic here.
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Not any more than the Jewish version was or is taken literally. We consider the ancients to be less sophisticated and literal in its interpretation of myth and fable, but yet today the literal interpretation is still doctrine in all of the Abrahamic religions even though we know it is implausible. There may have been a duality to ancient religious stories, basic "fairytales" for the masses and children, with deeper symbolic meaning for the educated classes. But we may never know since much of the cultural nuance and context has been lost.
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Black, Caspian, Red, and even entire Med Seas basins rapidly filling as rising sea level overtopped barriers are the most common attributions.
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@diegotrejos5780 We simply don't know and probably can never know which/where/if a specific event originated this story. Its also likely that its just touching on the human anxiety about floods which back then would have been a existential threat for entire communities and cultural groups.
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Most religious scholars.
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@miguelatkinson Even highly educated Western people take a literal interpretation. In the US its probably a majority of Christians and that is doctrine in most denominations of all three Abrahamic religions.
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The French Bulldog breed of dog did not exist at the time. It is completely man made. /pedant
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Except Abrahamic religions completely deny the existence of other gods. So that would contradict the belief system.
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@faithlesshound5621 Ah no. The gods of cultures that get converted are "demoted" to negative entitites as part of the "demonization" (literally) and debasement of the native religions. But their divinity is never acknowledged. No saints are not prayed to as gods, but are as intercessionaries, with the intent they are "sub-contractors" (lol) but not distinct from "God". A bit of a hold over from Roman paganism, but not a direct one.
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@faithlesshound5621 Ah no. The gods of cultures that get converted are "demoted" to negative entitites as part of the "demonization" (literally) and debasement of the native religions. But their divinity is never acknowledged. No saints are not prayed to as gods, but are as intercessionaries, with the intent they are "sub-contractors" (lol) but not distinct from "God". A bit of a hold over from Roman paganism, but not a direct one.
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