Genesis 6-9, Irene Bunnell

I agree that it was really interesting reading the bible from a literature perspective. I noticed how things like time and quantity are irrelevant and exaggerated in the story. Noah is 600 hundred years old, but lifetimes and years don't really matter to this story which happened thousands of years ago. The actual size of the ark is pretty small for the task it is undertaking, apparently the quantity and actual space taken up by two of every single animal isn't important either. Neither of these things matter to the moral and lesson of the story. It also seems like it is grossly over exaggerated that every single person on the earth except Noah was an awful evil person. If we take this story as absolutely true, maybe he decided that only Noah was doing specific things to please God, not that everyone else was actually partaking in evil activities. After the flood God feels remorseful, maybe the moral of this story was meant for God, to be forgiving and benevolent instead of just killing everybody off who displeases him. This is actually a theme the bible teaches throughout, to forgive rather take your anger out on someone who has wronged you.