So, what I would ask those who do not believe is simply this:

"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him?"

The Word of God tells us that he “has appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness.” What about you? Are you ready for that day? Whether you are ready or not, you can be assured that, “it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment.”

Oh no not the Day of Judgement rubbish again. Have you religious lot ever looked at these things from a psychological point of view?

'Quickly! Make your decision now on whether to become a Christian! The judgement is right around the corner its nearly here! If you're not a Christian by then its gonna be really bad for you! Quickly quickly quickly!!..'

Simple psychological hurry-ups. A great way to get people to make decisions without applying rational thought by taking thinking time away from them. It is neither original nor noble to stoop to such methods, and yet you do. Might want to think how much you've relied on such underhand tactics as you stand in the queue at St. Peters' gates with your little golden ticket.

Zoroastrianism?

In addition to Polly's list of the mentions of the devil in the Bible, my parents also referenced Isaiah's prophecy against Babylon:

How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star [Lucifer], son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost height of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." But you are brought down to the grave, to the depth of the pit.

-Isaiah 14:12-15

Also, in regards to the lack of evidence for the flood, wouldn't there be some sort of major cataclysmic event in the geological record?

The Gospels do more to conceal the real Jesus than to reveal him. They were written partly to make the Romans less hostile to the new sect of Christians, that is why the actions vs. Jesus are ascribed more to the Jews than the Romans. In any case, Jesus was an apocalyptic prophet who bet wrong on God saving him and Israel. God usually lets people down more often than not. Jesus died a victim of Roman belief that he was a rebel. And he was, in the sense that he accepted the acclamations of the crowd, Hosannah Son of David, which means Save us King. His proclamation as king was treason. The Jewish authorities had no choice but to denounce him to Pilate and Pilate had no choice but to execute him forthwith.

Jesus as some sort of divine or semi-divine saviour whose death somehow can wash away sins is an invention of Paul of Tarsus who himself had never met Jesus. Paul may have been sincere but he was deluded. Christians as a result do not know the real Jesus and the Gospels do not reveal him as he really was. You need to read the Old Russian translation of Josephus' Fall of Jerusalem to get the real picture.

So, stop making fun of Noah and his flood, the 7 days of creation and all that myth. Focus on the lies taught for 1900 years by the churches.

There are actually a lot of flood stories from many different people groups. Some are rather interesting.

Matt

Why not ask one of the various organizations of librarians and so on for help? I know of such a group that accepts questions from anyone, and there are probably others as well. (In fact, you could probably ask the first list to cross-post to other lists.)