{"id":7671,"date":"2012-10-18T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/2012\/10\/18\/was-the-flood-real\/"},"modified":"2020-02-11T03:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T00:08:00","slug":"was-the-flood-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/was-the-flood-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Flood Real?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>Did the Flood ever occur in history?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>Did the Flood (Mabul) ever occur in history? Was it a real event or just a metaphor\/parable?&nbsp;According to an article on this website, the tale of Creation in Bereishit is not a scientific-historical narration, but a parable meant to teach spiritual truths. So can we say the same thing about the story of the Flood?<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A: There are different opinions among the rabbis concerning the nature of the&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: inline !important;\"><strong>Flood and its historical accuracy. In any case, this is not a basic tenet of our faith.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Did the Flood ever occur in history?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[3015,1326,3017],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-hebrew-bible","tag-allegory-en","tag-dluge","tag-flood-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7967,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7671\/revisions\/7967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}