Posted on 05/24/2018 5:12:56 AM PDT by ganeemead
The question of sin being involved in the flood story is questionable; the historical reality of the global flood at the time of Noah is not. Interesting article on www.steemit.comL
https://steemit.com/science/@gungasnake/ken-ham-s-ark-exhibit-a-fabulous-success-evolutionites-evolosers-shattered
This is a fascinating and very credible work.
I always imagined that the global flood was created by a comet or meteor hitting one of our oceans and sending tsunamis around the planet and rain that would last a long time.
Nothing in any of the global flood stories contradicts that theory (so far) that I am aware of.
If so, then the knowledge that this was going to happen, with instructions to build a substantial sea-worthy vessel indicates some serious knowledge of space and trajectories and the consequences of what was going to happen.
They'll have to have an ecumenical meeting just to assure the world that "chrstians have never believed in a literal Flood."
It should be on everyone’s bucket list. My wife and I visited the Ark and The Creation Museum last week.
As a Christian, I’ve always believed in the global flood. Most science follows the account when looked at without previous bias. The ark account that they show has phenomenal amounts of research backing up everything. When they were confronted with two research choices, they always deferred to the more difficult one.
Anthropology also has hundreds of flood stories in nearly all cultures.
I once knew a pioneering missionary from Papua New Guinea. The tribe he worked with had little to no contact with the outside world before he arrived. He was the second white man to ever enter the village. I asked if they had a flood account. They did.
Why would Catholics be saddened? Tradition is in line with Scripture on the Deluge: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04702a.htm
The flood was a consequence of the final capture of the Southern part of our system (Neptune, Saturn, Mars, Earth), that is, the bodies with the roughly 26-degree axis tilts, by our present sun.
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