satanic temple oh that's right okay i've got a terrible memory sorry mr monster says was it evil for god to kill everyone in the flood without offering them a form of redemption like he did later on with jesus so i mean that this is a question um in terms of how one interprets the narrative i already pointed out for example that the place to start with interpreting that narrative is not thinking of it as newspaper account of past events but as a poem that shows god's faithfulness to those who are righteous well then let's be clear did the flood happen i certainly don't think a global flood happened did a regional flood happen and is that story that is telling the narrative about god remembers those who are righteous is it based upon some past memory of a flood like that certainly that's possible okay that was sufficiently vague i just think i was quite clear but i've also hedged my bets i mean the the belief in a particular understanding of the flood is simply not part of essential christian doctrine um in genesis NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN people should not be i mean i was raised in a fundamentalist context where yeah to to look for evidence of noah's ark on mount ararat was as important as looking for evidence that jesus rose from the dead and that is simply a conflation of categories yeah again we agree and i have met many christians which with whom i would argue on you know on any number of topics but we agree that the flood did not happen the way the bible describes it and nor is it a requirement that you believe that in order to be christian i had this argument today that somebody told me you cannot be a christian unless you're a biblical literalist yeah we would disagree that's for sure i mean that individual this one coming in from do appreciate your question dNUMBER_TOKEN says randall what is your standard of telling something is true how is it different from oren's model uh so uh i in i wrote a book uh NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN years ago with oxford i'm tired of hearing about this guy's book i've got a third one on the way okay all right awesome i i gotta apologize i know people sometimes think that sounds pretty obnoxious but i am i'm simply the point i'm making is like i describe a moderate foundationalist and defend it in this book theology in search of foundations so i would be what's called a moderate externalist foundationalist i don't think i have the time to explain what that means here this one coming in from appreciate it quantity upstate says the violent bible absolutely was revealed by let's see i think this is one of those being ironic randall they say they say by revealed by god and they say thank you let's see they say i don't think this is a god worth worshiping randall if you want to give a general response is like pretty broad uh their take is pretty broad they're give a chance to respond if you'd like well i'll just say that if i believed a particular agent did something that is objectively evil then i would not worship that agent so if a
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