Posted on 12/14/2012 9:10:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I remember reading about this years ago.
Why is Big Media talking about it now?
To stir up interest in the Turkey region, to bolster support for the messiah’s sending over support to more anti-American muslim factions?
Obviously there must have been a monstrous flood in the region because at one point the Black Sea was a freshwater lake.
Whew! At least we now know how the whales wound up in the desert.
And the Sahara desert was grassland and lakes 12000 years ago. There’s plenty of evidence pointing to a much wetter mideast in the past as well.
I think what is important to consider is that the reason there are multiple stories of a ‘flood’, and varying evidence, is that there have been many large scale floods throughout the history of Earth.
The crust of the Earth is constantly moving up and down. As it does, water then seeks the lowest level. Ergo, water level changes happen daily. Large scale ones happen when things like Earthquakes occur. Those happen in the hundreds per day. There have been many ‘floods’, and many stories. Like the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The story in the Bible on Noah is a parable, but is based on an actual incident, or multiple incidents.
The importance of the story in the Bible is that nobody but Noah would listen to God even when warned of the impending catastrophe.
The story in the Bible on Noah is a parable, but is based on an actual incident, or multiple incidents.
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I do not see anything in Scripture that would indicate it is a parable, it is a recording of history if you read Genesis, it records history.
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Everything said in that story has already been on some TV show, i think Nat Geo channel. Yes a few years ago.
As an addition Immanuel Velikovsky also wrote ‘Worlds in Collision’. These two books may give you insight to these recent discoveries.
There have been a few big floods that have been discovered over the years. This is nothing new.
One day, maybe, we will be able to prove it all happened exactly as stated in Genesis.
Yet, I suspect, we will continue to ignore the lesson.
No less than Jesus himself authenticated what happened, and the flood itself is not the important event here, it was for (and because of) what occurred in Genesis Chapter 6,
When the end of the age comes upon us, in our future, it begins out of a blue sky day, just like in the days of Lot and Noah and will be of fire and not water:
“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.” Matthew 24:36-39
“For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; . .”
2 Peter 2:4-6
Well that does not batch the Bible's description of the flood.
The bible is one of the greatest history books ever compiled by man.
There has been so many archaeological finds verifying so many of the writings. In my opinion, there is way more truth than there is fiction.
You are preaching to the choir here, my response was to someone that didn’t believe the veracity of the flood.
“may have...”
Me too.
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