Paul tells us to AVOID the genealogies because of the endless arguments.
I never mentioned anything about genealogies. In your response right here to my prior statement, I merely mentioned that the bible is 5-7th grade reading levels. The consensus of many groups. My opinion is that the KJV and the likes, to me, would be a bit harder.
What I do know that is fact, is that the scripture is God breathed. God is the author. If the bible says the "high hills were covered under the whole heaven" then that is what happened. I also look to the Hebrew text to see the words involved. Like I said before, you are missing the context of the sentence structure.
I can only answer for myself when people ask me what I believe.
No, most of what I saw in this thread, was you posting and pushing your "opinion" as fact. If you were merely telling people what you believe, I might not have even said anything.
I agree that when it comes to my opinion, I can only mention what I believe. However, when the bible says something, it is no longer my opinion, but fact. Regardless of your false scientific findings by men who water the scriptures down and make the bible as nothing.
If you want to say the whole earth was flooded then that would mean the Bible is not true because all of the evidence snows us that the entire earth was not flooded at the time of Noah. That does not mean there was no world wide flood. We know that there was a world wide flood at time of Pangaea was broken up. Usually when the world was flooded with water the water was frozen and science calls this a snowball earth. If you read Jonathan Cahn's book about how the Bible is written to be a Paradigm then you can see that Noah's flood was written to be a Paradigm of a flood at a different point in time that involved the whole world. But if your going to say that Noah's flood around 4500 years ago was a world wide flood then you are going to have to say that science is not true. Because there is overwhelming scientific evidence to show us that Noah's flood was not a world wide flood.
Forgive me for not taking Jonathans Cahn's opinion to heart. He too must not see the context of sentence structure. His opinions clearly show he has little regard for the bible and what it says by expressing beliefs and opinions contrary to what the bible clearly states. I am reminded of 2 Timothy 4:3-4.
No it is not I that is refuting bible scripture, it is you. I have repeatedly mentioned the context of the scriptures I have listed which you have not been able to decipher. I really do not like sounding like an ogre but you are clearly having much difficulty understanding context and words used. Maybe it is because you wish for or are lured in false science, like evolutionary believing Atheists who say they have science to back their claims.
I believe the bible is true and 100% correct. I believe God when He says He does not lie, and I know God does not make mistakes. When God worded Genesis 6-8 the way He did through Moses, it is clearly stating the entire world. You just cannot get around verses like this....
Genesis 8:9 -
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark,
for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
It baffles me, for you to say that you believe scripture, and then contradict with the silly notion of "local flooding".
Think about it. In the South Pacific there are over 10,000 islands. Each and every island has their own bio diverse ecology. Noah would have to go to every one of those islands, pick up the animals on that island, then after the flood take them back to where he got them. Actually if you study the islands you will see that the bio diversity was established during the ice age when the water level was a lot lower.
Noah didn't gather the animals my friend, God did. Noah was told to gather food and take care of the animals. God brought forth the animals as how else would a lion enter in the ark with a gazelle 2 by 2?
As far as your island statement, now it sounds like your just trying to find excuses. The landscape/environment was much different then before the flood. You should have known this. Whats to say the earth was not one large land mass before the flood? After all...
Gen.7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month,
the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Tectonic movement? Was it on a mass scale?
But this is high school science and you do not want to go there and function at the level of a high school graduate. Which is fine with me if that is what you want to do.
I never said that I didn't want to go there. Quote me where I said this? Again, you are having problems with deciphering words/sentences/context. How in the world are you even going to debate anything rationally if you cannot understand?
Again, I say again, I merely said, the reading level of the bible is agreed upon as 5-7th grade reading levels.
I also take it that you have not read the link. That is okay though, I didn't expect you to do so. It's just that they too, bring about scientific evidence that the flood WAS world wide.
