{"id":468,"date":"2006-02-16T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/02\/16\/the-flood-allegory-exaggeration-or-literal-world-wide-disaster\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T14:00:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T21:00:52","slug":"the-flood-allegory-exaggeration-or-literal-world-wide-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/02\/16\/the-flood-allegory-exaggeration-or-literal-world-wide-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Flood&#8217; &#8211; Allegory, exaggeration or literal world-wide disaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Calamities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/02\/16\/calamities\/\">post<\/a> brought up the topic of the flood of Noah.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always thought that the current LDS belief was that this event was a localized disaster and not to be taken literally as read in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Am I wrong here? Are there still members who believe that the <strong>entire<\/strong> Earth was once under 26 feet of water? Or that there were <strong>literally<\/strong> two of every species stuffed into a boat?<\/p>\n<p>If that is indeed the case, colour me surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calamities post brought up the topic of the flood of Noah. 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