The Matter of Divine Parables' Authenticity: Why Noah Parable is Unimitated from Atlantis Legend?

Abstract

Prophethood is one of the three pivotal principles of religion, together with deity and hereafter. Its relevance with the revelation is the founding doctrine of religion in terms of symbolizing communication between God and humans. Considering this importance, naturalists, who deny God's intervention in the universe and that God sent revelations to show the true path to people, try to create suspicion on the nature and content of the divine speech to shake the religious belief. For this purpose, they brought up the historical personalities of the prophets, and the parables of the prophets were reflected in the form of mythological stories by them. In this sense, one of the stories that naturalists associate with mythology in terms of authenticity is the Parable of Noah. According to some naturalists whose culture definitions are based on Eurocentric values, the origin of Noah's Parable in the Qur'an and other holy books is the legend of Atlantis. In our text designed to evaluate this claim of naturalists, the fact that the Noah Flood and the legend of Atlantis are different events in terms of truth and originality, and the thesis that the Atlantis legend was inspired by the Parable of Noah, was justified in terms of place and time.