Thanks for those thoughts and evidence. It is not an earth-shattering (!) theological concept for me - just interesting.
How about the idea of a rainbow in the sky post flood? Does that mean there were no rainbows before (indicating no rain), or does it just mean that rainbows (that had been around for a long time) now were given the symbol of being God’s promise.
Which of course now rainbows been corrupted by the gay movement.
No problem. I just hate the “no rain before the flood” argument because people cite to it with absolute moral certainty despite that there is no conclusive support one way or the other from the text. I agree with you that I actually don’t care theologically whether there was or was not, but I do care about being faithful to the text.
Rainbows post flood versus pre flood? Again, I think either reading can be justified from the text.
I hate that I can’t trust rainbows anymore.
Well, the Bible says in (NIV)Genesis 1, 6-8:
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” 7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.