So much of how we were told to “believe in the Bible” just didn’t add up by 3rd or 4th grade it wouldn’t have passed the Snopes test. And yet we were told there was only one literal way to understand stories like Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. Did a flood happen? Yeah, probably. A lot of cultures told stories around the same time in global history. Did God send the flood to punish all the people, though?