Posted on 02/19/2020 9:33:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In an article in “The Christian Post” on whether the Flood of Noah covered the entire globe, Hugh Ross contended that the Flood was not global in extent but regional.
Taking Genesis as straightforward history, the reader of the text should have little difficulty understanding the account of the Flood in chapters 6–8. We are told that “the fountains of the great deep” burst open and poured out water onto the earth's surface for 150 days. The “floodgates of heaven” were open, producing torrential rainfall. These passages express a flood of global geographical extent. This view is confirmed by the words “all” and “whole” in Genesis 7:19: “And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.”
Furthermore, we read that all mankind was blotted out (except the eight people on the Ark). Genesis 6:7–13 tells us why God sent the Flood judgment: “The Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky.’” The Flood also came to destroy all land animals and birds wherever they were located, not just to kill sinful humans who were not on the Ark.
Furthermore, the Flood account is irreconcilable with a watery event being localized in the Mesopotamian Valley. As noted above, Genesis 7 teaches that “all the mountains were covered.” Because water will always seek its own level, how could the mountains be covered in only one region without also covering mountains in adjoining areas?
Likewise, there is no biblical or logical reason to assume that all humanity before the Flood lived only in the Mesopotamian Valley. Genesis 4 indicates that early man built cities, had nomadic herds of animals, and explored the earth (v. 17–22).
In 2 Peter 3, the Apostle Peter warned of a future time when people would willfully forget that after the earth was created by God, it perished “being flooded with water,” and that the present earth is “reserved for fire until the day of judgment.” Three events are referred to: the creation of the world (Greek “kosmos”), the destruction of that world (“kosmos” again) by a watery cataclysm (the Flood), and the future destruction of the heavens and the earth by fire. In other words, Peter accepted the Flood was global because the creation of the world was global and the future judgment by fire is to be global. This passage leaves no doubt that God’s Word — including in the New Testament — teaches a global Flood.
If the Flood were only regional in extent, why would Noah have even had to take birds on board the ark (Genesis 7:8) when the birds could have simply flown away to safe, unflooded areas? Similarly, why would Noah have needed to take land animals on board the Ark when representatives of those same animal kinds would surely have survived in an unflooded area?
Furthermore, why would Noah have had to build the ark to an immense scale as specified in Genesis 6:15 (about 510 feet long, 84 feet wide, and 51 feet high)? With three decks, the Ark would have had a total area of about 125,000 square feet for all the needed animals (and supplies). Obviously, an Ark of such dimensions would only be required if the Flood were global in extent, which was intended by God to destroy all land animals and birds living around the world (except for those preserved on that Ark). Because the Bible teaches that Noah was warned of the Flood several decades before it came (Genesis 6:3), God could have simply told Noah and his family to migrate out of the region with any required land animals and birds before the Flood started.
Finally, God gave the covenant of the rainbow to remind people He will never again send such a Flood. If Noah’s Flood was regional, then God has broken His promise over and over again because there have been multiple regional floods over the millennia.
Both the Old and New Testaments teach that the Flood of Noah was global. It could not be clearer. For the scientific evidence that confirms a global Flood, we have several articles by PhD geologists and others found on our website of www.AnswersInGenesis.org
This topic is ultimately one about the authority of God's Word, which plainly teaches a global Flood. Why should we accept the ever-changing opinions of fallible men as they reinterpret what the infallible God clearly communicated to us in Genesis?
Ken Ham is the CEO of the Ark Encounter, an evangelistic attraction that draws well over a million people a year to tour its full-size Noah’s Ark in N. Kentucky.
This got me thinking about the show ... I could not find it (I could have sworn it was one of the Naked Archaeologist shows, but not finding it). Did find this one https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/501578/s01_e07_7_noahs_ark_was_there_a_worldwide_flood which looks even older, saying the same thing. Explanation is at around the 24 min mark.
There are several similar accounts in several ancient texts.
Hugh Ross never learned what I learned in grade school:
Water will seek it’s own level.
IF it rained for 150 days & the flood was that bad in the Middle East, the water would have sought to go elsewhere.
I say it was GLOBAL.
There are several similar accounts in several ancient texts.
It’s definitely one of those things I would call adiaphora
It was undoubtedly due to the unicorns and their evil SUVs. That’s why Noah left them off the ark.
i don’t even need the Bible to believe in the global flood. all i have to do is look at the ocean out my window and then look at a swimming pool.
or since 1969, I can just look at a picture of the earth taken from the moon.
it’s really a no brainer.
And Native Americans talks about their version of the flood. If Noah took all land animals onto the ark, he must have known about the Americas!
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I have wondered if the Great Flood was a result of a major meteor strike on Mars. They say Mars use to have water. Also they say it was hit by a major meter. So if during the collision the water was ejected into space could it have orbited til it reached Earth? Causing the Great Flood. Just a thought.
The plants were created and put in place on the third day, but the sun and the moon not until the fourth. How many centuries was that?
To look at the flood with the “approved” biblical timeline, and merge known historical and archaeological findings should bring forth the conclusion that traditional knowledge and dating out to 5K years is preposterous. The dates/timeline is wrong and yet we still push the same scientific absurdity that Galileo faced with the various seated councils & other bodies of antiquated knowledge.
That's because geologically speaking mountain ranges like the Himalayas are comparatively young. The fossils were left there before the subduction of the two Tectonic plates created the mountains.
LOL. No wonder you’re criticized for your take on Scripture.
My wife is directly descended from a Native American people. One of their well known legends depicts the flood and the destruction of a sinful people. Following that, a white prophet arrived and taught them the basis of morality and laws. The very same prophet announced he would return in a second coming in the far future. The accounts draw a direct similarity to the biblical histories in Genesis.
My wife is an unshakable Christian.
And quite the hottie.
With the way the sun distributes energy, the earth not spinning would be pretty crispy on one side after only a few days. A God who could create the world as we know it out of nothing by speaking doesn’t need any extra control of time.
Then the 6 days of creation could be figurative or literal, but how does that make a difference in how much He has proven He loves us?
And the same God could have suspended the natural law of water seeking its own level, but why would He?
How do any of you know the flood was not "global"? I was certainly universal-- all humans except 8 died. Why does it have to be "global"? Genesis does not say anything like that.
What about mountains?
If so, (captured ice body), then if it suddenly disintegrated and rained down, there was still that mass of a secondary tidal bulge that would have to dissipate its stored energy.
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