Who believes in a Flood sent by God? + some other things?

[BigJohn]

I look at the "Great Flood" almost the same way.

If you look at the creation account and the flood account: there are two versions mentioned. First thing that comes to my mind is: were there originally other accounts? The more I look at these accounts, the more they seem to be theories explaining how we got here and other events. If you think about it, isn't that what Science does?

We look at these accounts thru the lens of "this is what God said... this is what God did" but if you look at the events in Hebrew, it tells a different story.

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by hazada guess

Re the flood,there was probably a large localized flood and they had to rescue some animals on a boat.
Everything is exaggerated in the Bible....

I agree. Exaggerated and then some fantasy about some weather.
Yes, then blaming God for the whole thing...All, imo.

[Nathaniel]

Maybe the story of the flood is a myth and therefore symbolic?

[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by Nathaniel

Maybe the story of the flood is a myth and therefore symbolic?

What do you think it would symbolize ? Thanks
Just found this:

Is the flood a metaphor?

Finally, in psychological terms, the flood myth, like the story of the hero's descent into the underworld, can be seen as
a metaphor for the individual's necessary time in the dark world of the unconscious
before the rebirth that is the achievement of individuation.

[Nathaniel]

I recognise there are many different levels of interpretation when it comes to symbolism but for me the flood represents the annihilation of the self. (The personality). The ark represents the courage needed to stand strong in the face of (ego) death in order to emerge free of the persona and therfore consciously be one with God.

I would also like to read other members interpretations.

[sky]

Originally Posted by Miss Hepburn

What do you think it would symbolize ? Thanks
Is the flood a metaphor?

Water/cleansing/baptism.
Ark/salvation.
"Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin" Psalm 51:1-7

Mybe

[FairyCrystal]

The narrative of a great flood that washes away as good as everything is told by ALL ancient people. These people weren't necessarily in touch with one another, yet they all have this narrative.
That's quite convincing evidence that it actually happened.

As far as I know it was a cleansing, washing away the impurity from the planet so it was possible to start afresh.
That doesn't mean it was god's wrath. You don't have to be angry or upset to decide it's time for a thorough cleaning. I'd call it an act of tough love.

Current years all things we refer to as disaster are related to cleansing of the planet. Flooding, earthquakes and so on.
The planet is very busy to becoming 5th dimensional and needs to rid itself of lots of old dense energies that have gotten 'under her skin'.
Another reason is that such disasters raise huge waves of compassion which is direly needed for the ascension of mankind.

We are to be 5D by 2032, the planet will be regardless, and it's a massive undertaking! One that has never occurred before, not even during Atlantis when people were 5D as then the planet wasn't.
So this is the first time that both the planet and mankind will be 5D. That is huge.

In any case, the flooding way back when was a cleansing. I've read years ago that we had dropped so low, lower than was anticipated, that there wasn't really another option.
It has taken massive influx of Lightworkers from all over to incarnate here for centuries, the incarnation of someone who could hold the Christ Light (Jesus), all in an attempt to help raise the frequency among mankind.
Look at how long this has taken and how much suffering it caused among the Lightworkers that came to help, as those were mostly the ones that got persecuted, tortured and killed.
It has created a lot of (subconscious) fear in Lightworkers. Fear to again stand tall and shine their Light as they done that before and what happened to most wasn't pretty.

But I'm getting carried away, hihi.

BTW I have also read/been told years ago that somewhere around 1980s we were again on the brink of being eradicated as we were making a bad mess of everything again.
But then we had the First Harmonic Convergence in '87 and that helped to bring to attention that we actually were on the right track. Enough people that were awake and willing and understanding and we were allowed to stay.

[BigJohn]

Flood stories seem to be common in all religions.

Digging a little further, it appears all of the religions have aspects of Animism within them. I suspect the Flood stories are an off shoot of Animism. If we look at Animism, we might have a better understanding of the 'phenomena.

[Nathaniel]

Perhaps a great flood happened, perhaps it didn’t, perhaps it’s part history part myth. I don’t know.

It’s actually of no real importance whether it happened or not, either way it can be looked at through the lens of myth.

Fairy Crystal brings up an interesting point about the great flood story being a global phenonemon. The archetypal hero’s journey, in it’s many guises, is also a global phenonemon.

Perhaps myth is a way in which life imparts truth and wisdom to the collective human psyche.

As Joseph Campbell said,

“Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truth, penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”

[AngelBlue]

Wonder how a modern day bible would interpret all the flooding we experience here in the UK almost daily , and how they would explain global warming ?