Was the Flood a worldwide catastrophe or just a local flood?

[Rxlx]

I had a revelation a few days ago when reading of Noah's instructions for building the ark.

It suddenly struck me that GOD used electricity and boiling water to speedily annihilate all the people and land and sea creatures because although all the humans had sinned and the Earth was overrun with Nephilims and hybrids the dinosaurs, mammoths and all land and sea life had to die.

It amuses and saddens me that the mass of humanity believs dinosaurs wewre wiped out by a meteorite about 66 million years ago!

Does anyone on these forums believe the 66 million year claim?

 

[ShineTheLight]

The supernatural and paranormal gets denied in this world. The flood was waters from heaven being used to wipe out all the evil that overtook the earth in the days of Noah.

You can see photos of petrified rocks and things on the lands of the earth that aren't normal. Those are the nephilim who were destroyed by the flood in Genesis 6. Everything became corrupted because of the fallen angels and their offspring the nephilim.

Regarding the million of years thing and dinosaur periods. That whole thing is a false. It falls under Colossians 2:8. It's an idea that is not after the truth and knowledge of God. There's stuff about the dinosaurs existing by themselves that do not add up.

To answer the question, the flood was worldwide. There's a lot of proof to it. Depending on who and what you want to believe.

 

[Windmill Charge]

The flood was waters from heaven

The current theory is that water dissolved in rock under great pressure was suddenly released, hence the fountains of the deep.

GOD used electricity and boiling water

Really a flood up to 400 yards deep, that exists for over a year will wipe out an unprepared population.

 

[Webers_Home]

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FAQ: Was the Flood global or local?

REPLY: Well; the problem with the local theory is the waters breached the
highest mountains by fifteen cubits (22½ feet). So then, if perchance Noah
lived in a geographic basin, the waters would have overflowed the
mountains surrounding him and kept on going before they ever got up to
that 22½ feet of extra elevation.

But the water would start spilling past Noah's area long before it breached
the tops of the highest mountains surrounding him because mountain ranges
aren't shaped smooth, level, and plane like the rim of a domestic bath tub.
No; they're very irregular and consist of high points and low points; viz:
peaks, valleys, canyons, saddles, and passes.

Thus mountain ranges make poor bath tubs because you would lose water
through the low points before it even had a chance to fill to the peaks. In
point of fact, were the sides of your bathtub shaped like a mountain range;
you could never fill it. And in trying to; just end up with water all over the
floor.
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[Jericho]

I'll just quote myself from another thread:

I would say yes for a several reasons:

-Why did God tell Moses to build an ark and preserve the animals if it was a local flood? It would have been much easier to tell them to relocate to higher ground.

-ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. Water flows down, not up. The only way the ark would have ended up in the mountains was if it was a global flood. Plus, a local flood would not have raised flood water that high.

-God made a promise that he would never flood the earth again (Gen 9:8–17), but there have been many local floods since that time.

-Nearly every ancient civilization on earth has a flood tradition. Many details are similar to Noah's Flood, which would make sense if they had a common origin. This to me is circumstantial proof of a global flood as only something as catastrophic as a global flood would leave such an impression on humanity.

 

[Webers_Home]

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● Gen 8:3b-4 . . At the end of one hundred and fifty days the waters
diminished, so that in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

The Hebrew word for "Ararat" appears three more times in the Bible: one at
2Kgs 19:36-37, one at Isa 37:36-38, and one at Jer 51:27. Ararat in the
Bible always refers to the country of Armenia --never to a specific geological
feature by the same name.

The Hebrew word for "mountains" doesn't always indicate a prominent land
mass like Kilimanjaro; especially when it's plural. It can also mean a range
of hills or highlands; for example:

In California, where I lived as a kid, the local elevation 35 miles east of San
Diego, in the town of Alpine, was about 2,000 feet above sea level. There
were plenty of meadows with pasture and good soil. In fact much of it was
very good ranch land and quite a few people in that area raised horses and
cows. We ourselves kept about five hundred chickens, and a few goats and
calves. We lived in the mountains of San Diego; but we didn't live up on top
of one of its peaks like Viejas, Lyon's, or Cuyamaca.

It makes better sense to beach the ark on the soil of one of Armenia's
elevated plains rather than up on one of Turkey's ancient volcanoes seeing
as how Noah took up agriculture after the Flood.

So; what happened to the ark? Well; according to the dimensions given at
Gen 6:15, the ark was shaped like what the beautiful minds call a right
rectangular prism; which is nothing in the world but the shape of a common
shoe box. So most of the lumber and logs used in its construction would've
been nice and straight; which is perfect for putting together houses, fences,
barns, corrals, stables, gates, hog troughs, mangers, and outhouses.

I think it's safe to assume that Noah and his kin gradually dismantled the
ark over time and used the wood for many other purposes, including fires.
Nobody cooked or heated their homes or their bath and laundry water using
refined fossil fuels and/or electricity and steam in those days, so everybody
needed to keep on hand a pretty fair-sized wood pile for their daily needs.

There was probably plenty of driftwood left behind by the Flood, but most of
that would be water-soaked at first. But according to Gen 6:14 the ark's
lumber was treated. So underneath the pitch it was still in pretty good shape
and well preserved for many years to come.

Noah's sons reproduced so we can be fairly certain that Noah's posterity--
which eventually numbered quite a few people --would want lumber from
the ark for useful purposes too so that by the time of the migration depicted
in the 11th chapter of Genesis, there likely wasn't enough left of the ark for
a rabbit hutch.
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[Raccoon1010]

I had a revelation a few days ago when reading of Noah's instructions for building the ark.

It suddenly struck me that GOD used electricity and boiling water to speedily annihilate all the people and land and sea creatures because although all the humans had sinned and the Earth was overrun with Nephilims and hybrids the dinosaurs, mammoths and all land and sea life had to die.

It amuses and saddens me that the mass of humanity believs dinosaurs wewre wiped out by a meteorite about 66 million years ago!

Does anyone on these forums believe the 66 million year claim?

First, to educate you on the matters discussed, Nephilim is a figment of imagination and delusional scripture projections. I would not follow that pathway to illusion in the bizarre Christian areas. Christians are to be sound minded and sober minded, which is the same thing, but does not reflect a stance on not drinking alcohol at all. It refers the similarity of being heavily intoxicated and the same type of thinking that happens during heavy intoxication and creating bizarre interpretations of scripture.

If you would like an educated analysis of the 66 million year claim, I have extensively researched those areas and have a thread already on the issue here:

Carbon-14 and fossil dating