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I think the Noahic flood was the second of God’s such judgements on the earth. “ And darkness was on the face of the deep”. Deep what? Deep water? Is that when the dinosaurs perished, perhaps?

Does that explain why those fossils are on this planet yet were not living creatures included on the ark?

I’m not the first to subscribe.

Greater Biblical scholars contemplated this before us.

When God gave the rainbow as the sign He would not destroy the earth with water again, did it mean He had only done it once before? Check it out and read slowly.

Human recollection of cosmic events takes many forms, so one event could be interpreted in different ways, but the telling still contains the kernel of truth. I believe that the Genesis account contains more of the truth than other ancient records. The second chapter of Genesis linguistically reveals an oral tradition. The first chapter is the later priests' formulated account.

The Epic of Gilgamesh could be from the same original source as the Genesis account of the flood, but had a lot added to the telling.

Wish I had more time, but must turn in.

The problem with this multiple judgments idea is that we then have death (evidenced by fossils)before Adam's sin which then means that God is lying to us when he says that death is the result of sin...

1 Corinthians 15: 21-22 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

If death is not the result of sin then we have removed the need for a savior and Christ died in vain. This undermines the enter gospel and is not true.

As for fossils on the planet not being living creatures included on the ark...the actual fossils would be the creatures not on the ark (that's why they died), but that does not mean that two of each kind of those same creatures were not on the ark. I don't believe we have a detailed “shipping manifest” of each creature as they boarded.