I love Bible challenges! But I've never been able to find someone to accept my Bible challenge.
Luke 17:26-27
26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Jesus said so! He's always right.
I have no problem with the actual account of a flood.
But could it be POSSIBLE, that Jesus was refering to the account in the Torah as a prophecy of the days to come, that he was explaining?
You have Paul explaining the two covenants as allegory through Sarah and Hagar.
It doesn't mean they didn't actually factuall exist, but their lives were a prophecy of spiritual truths.
Jesus is explaining the days of Noah, more so than the flood, it's what they were doing, or not doing, that carried them all away.
We see these in many of his parables as well.
Are the parables factual? They could be. But he is giving them as lessons in principle and morals.
Moses wrote the first 5 books of the OT. Who told Moses what to write?
Was it the same Spirit in Jesus that spoke to Moses?
Is it possible Jesus spoke to Moses through parables and Moses wrote them as an actual account to teach the severity of walking away from God?
I'm not saying the accounts didn't happen.
Did a man go out to his field and find a great pearl and sell all that he had to buy that field?
Maybe. Why not?
Is it the story that's important or the moral that we should be learning?
Just thinking..
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