LOL, if we relied on man's philosophy and science to explain scriptural events, there could be cases left right and centre for nothing actually happening and it all being mystical. Some points going on from HiJolly and Vanhin.
1. When we are baptised, does it happen just in our head as a thought, or is it phyisical?
2. When we received the Gift of the Holy Ghost, did it happen just in our head, or did it physically happen with hands laid on head etc?
3. The gospel of Jesus Christ is taught by symbols that are physically manifest in our lives (I love the quote, which I cannot find right now that Pres Hinkley said in reply to "what is the symbol of your church?", he said, "its members are the symbol of the what the church teaches.... something physically manifest)
4. We are taught that we were and the earth and it's creations were all created spiritually and then physically. This is a pattern to me. That pattern continues in this earth life where we receive physically and then spiritually.
Putting that all together, I have a firm testimony that the flood actually happened physically. I have no doubt. But just like all scripture and doctrine, one must find out for themselves by prayer and obedience and fasting.
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