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The narrative tells us they’re in the Ark for over a year!
If it were local, the narrative would have said a few days.
Water drains off.
Was Noah's flood global?
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The narrative tells us they’re in the Ark for over a year!
If it were local, the narrative would have said a few days.
Water drains off.
Wick Stick
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The flood story has a lot to do with the idea of BIRTH or re-birth. The time frames may have been adjusted to reflect the idea of gestation.
ThePuffyBlob
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definitely if the word of God which is the bible say so then it really is if science cannot prove it then science still needs improvements just like how there is still no fool proof cure for cancer but there will be in the future
Jesus clearly said the Genesis Flood was LITERAL!
Matthew 24:38-39
38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away,
Matthew 24:38-39
38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away,
Wick Stick
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Wick Stick
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It doesn't actually use the word global... it says it covered the land and all the mountains. But from whose perspective? God's or Noah's? The former is global and the latter isn't.
The only question to me is whether at the time of Noah's flood the continents were actually situated on the globe in the same locations as they are today (or at least close...). The idea of one continent ~ Pangaea ~ is generally accepted, and in my view, it is possible that this was the state of the land and that Noah's flood was all-encompassing regarding the land, but not actually global. Yes, I realize that even in that case, water would have covered the whole earth....
To that point, though, there is a good number of Christians who think the result of the events that took place in Genesis 11, particularly verse 8 and 9...
..is not just evidence of scattering/moving people (or even migration, in humanistic terms)... but even the land masses themselves.
Something to think about, anyway... <smile>
Grace and peace to all.
To that point, though, there is a good number of Christians who think the result of the events that took place in Genesis 11, particularly verse 8 and 9...
"So the Lord dispersed them from there..." (the plain in the land of Shinar) "...over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord con-fused the language of all the earth."
NOTE: Yes, I know there's no hyphen in con-fused, but the board was putting in a confused emoticon in there... <smile>
"And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth"
..is not just evidence of scattering/moving people (or even migration, in humanistic terms)... but even the land masses themselves.
Something to think about, anyway... <smile>
Grace and peace to all.
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There you go! GLOBAL indeed!
Genesis 7:17-24
17 Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth.
18 The waters prevailed and greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the waters.
19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered.
20 The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
21 And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died.
23 So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive.
24 And the waters prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.
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