From the cited site-
"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. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."(Gen 7:11-12 KJV)
This first passage, at the beginning of the flood, says that the rains did not begin until AFTER the fountains of the great deep are broken up.
"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"(Gen 8:2 KJV)
The second passage says the rains ceased only AFTER the fountains stopped. This is fully consistent with a geyser model.
Ludicrous and obscene twisting of language.
For example-
"I walked to work
and looked for another job, so sick was I in my current employment"
Does this mean that I was looking for another job
AFTER I walked to work?
Of course not, and anybody conversant in everyday language would
never think so.
Or, a better example-
"I am sick AND tired of your behavior!"
Am I tired AFTER I am sick?
Such an assumption is simply uneducated guesswork
at best, or purposefull twisting of the language at worst.
Methinks it's the latter regarding christiangeology.com.
christiangeology.com is
plainly twisting the "
plain" reading of scriptures (aka "the literal reading") to suit their "
geology" (and I use that term o-so-loosely in this case) hypothesis.
"
AND" does
not immediately mean "
later" as this site ignorantly states. Look the word up, o ignorant members of christiangeology.com. The only case where this is accepted is where it is spelled out in the sentence, such as-
"
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 later the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." (added words and emphasis added)
To say such belies any understanding of language that one may
claim one has.
One can
claim anything one wants. Evidencing such, however, is another thing altogether. And plainly, christiangeology.org fails in this evidence. They dont understand the word "
and".
Hands down
End of story.
And they expect us to accept their geology when they cant even understand a basic and often used conjunction such as "
and"?
Puh-leaze!
Its sad really
Sad and pathetic.
If they would perhaps read the passage again, they might note-
"
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second monthon that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights."
IOW,
ON THAT DAY the springs burst forth
"and"
ON THAT DAY the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Seems plain enough to me.
Any other reading is a simple "reading into" the scriptures in a
vain and
sad attempt to make the scriptures agree with one's preconceptions.
EDIT- I should be more clear.
According to christiangeology.com, and the bible-
"
And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth. And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth, There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. 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. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
"
Careful parsing of the above passage(Genesis 7:6-12) indicates that great amounts of water were already being added to the Earth's seas at least seven days before the rains even began. "
Which, of course, is pure bull, based on the following biblical statement-
"
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."
Gen 7:11-12
