Rom 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
If the flood was only local, God sure wanted us to think it was global.
Would that include those who wrote this?
I do not see what the words of St Paul have to do with dinosaurs and the local flood. Sorry — can you please explain?
>> If the flood was only local, God sure wanted us to think it was global.
That depends on who authored Genesis. The Bible is the divinely inspired Word of God — but it is written by human hands, translated by human hands, and handed down through human history. Perhaps, to the author of Genesis, it appeared that the entire world was flooded ... but it would be impossible for the human writer of Genesis to verify that, in fact, the entirety of both hemispheres were flooded.
It is possible that the flood was local, or continental, and not global ... and, that it was visually misinterpreted by the author, translations were screwed up, or something else happened. It is also possible that the entire world was truly flooded.
This is one of the many questions I’m planning on asking when my number comes up ...
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