Dare To Aks Talk And News About Our Differences 
Many stories in the Bible are parables, symbolic stories. Not everything in the Bible can be taken literally, but must be viewed symbolically. The Flood stresses the fact that there are consequences for our actions. The consequence isn’t always death, although that is the ultimate consequence, obliterated by Jesus, but consequences do exist. That is how I have been taught to view such stories. The religious implications are more important than the actual happenings.
