I have "faith". The meaning of the Word and the one and only meaning of the Word is very elusive. My belief is no man has that meaning. It is to man to seek the purest meaning of the Word. The flood came not as water(mans perversion of the word) but as a sea of understanding and meaning to each Word of God. Think of it as Webster's(the dictionary) flood! The Word is preserved for us after the flood in scripture...so that we may know here we came from. However the waters are so great that no man has came close, save Jesus, to that meaning. Jesus was the Word manifest in the flesh. Some even question Jesus and his understanding but there were accounts of Jesus preforming miracles. None the less, he still fell short of the complete meaning and understanding. I find that most of the teachings tend to be allegorical in nature and given for humanity to decipher. Such as the raw and unclean interpretation of Noah's ark is about a boat that animals were loaded into. Not so true when you take those 4 chapters of genesis and study them for a few days. Then you learn that the Ark is not a boat at all. Doin this is called "stopping the passover". Passover being a person's inability to tolerate scripture in lengthy spans so that person fills in boredom with previous given knowledge of scripture from other men. Most of the scripture is simply passed over by humanity or vice versa man is passed over by scripture. It hasn't been read in detail for a very long time. The bible carriers you encounter get passed over in much of their studies....even though the pages are torn, worn, and falling apart, they still succumb to boredom and separation from God/Word. Can you tell me what Noah's Ark really is?