Some questions about the flood?

[japhy]

Noah’s arc is more then likely a story represenitive of the situation where the black sea filled in when some earthquake caused the Mediterranean sea to flow into the region the black sea is today. Would have seemed like the entire world flooded to the people of that region.

But as jereth has mentioned, that's not all it's about. It is one in a long line of examples in the Bible about the saving power of God's Word (to which the entire Bible is a witness). By obeying God's commands, Noah and his family are saved from a cataclysmic fate. It also shows how, since God first revealed Himself to humanity, He has always worked through us: Noah and his family and the animals were not saved by sitting around doing nothing, they were saved because Noah follow God's instructions and built an ark capable of supporting them for a year.

 

[LightHorseman]

Explain to me now why the time it took to build the ark, wouldn't have been better used walking to higher ground, since you are now saying the flood wasn't global?

 

[japhy]

Explain to me now why the time it took to build the ark, wouldn't have been better used walking to higher ground, since you are now saying the flood wasn't global?

How much time did it take to build the ark? I've not seen any Scriptural timeline for the creation of the ark. Anyway, moving to higher ground is not what God commanded Noah to do. And a local flood does not mean it was small, just that it was not a global flood: specifically, since the Bible says waters came from the "fountains of the great deep" as well as from rain, it could have been a rather large area of destruction.

 

[Assyrian]

Explain to me now why the time it took to build the ark, wouldn't have been better used walking to higher ground, since you are now saying the flood wasn't global?

Have you ever seen people try to herd cats?

 

[LightHorseman]

Dear Assyrian,

Well, on THAT point, have you ever seen anyone load a boat full of dinosaurs and sail around on flood waters for a year?

 

[Assyrian]

Dinosaurs? I though God had already got rid of them back at Chicxulub. He even left us a layer of Iridium (Greek for rainbow) to mark the event.

 

[jereth]

Dinosaurs? I though God had already got rid of them back at Chicxulub. He even left us a layer of Iridium (Greek for rainbow) to mark the event.

Now now Assyrian, you know that is just atheist fantasy. There are no such thing as meteorites (they aren't mentioned in the Bible are they?) Except of course the meteorites which came from the planet Phaeton, (formerly orbiting between Mars and Jupiter) when it exploded during Noah's flood and sent debris flying throughout the solar sytem, forming craters on the moon and planets...

As for dinosaurs, they survived the flood aboard Noah's ark and are still alive today (loch ness monster, etc.)

Trust God's word, not man's science.

 

[random_guy]

Now now Assyrian, you know that is just atheist fantasy. There are no such thing as meteorites (they aren't mentioned in the Bible are they?) Except of course the meteorites which came from the planet Phaeton, (formerly orbiting between Mars and Jupiter) when it exploded during Noah's flood and sent debris flying throughout the solar sytem, forming craters on the moon and planets...

As for dinosaurs, they survived the flood aboard Noah's ark and are still alive today (loch ness monster, etc.)

Trust God's word, not man's science.

You forgot a key point. Phaeton was made mostly of reactive metals (Cs, Fr) and when the water receeded, it flew off the planet and hit Phaeton. The resulting reaction caused the explosion creating the craters on moons and planets. This also explains where the water went after the Flood.

 

[Assyrian]

As for dinosaurs, they survived the flood aboard Noah's ark and are still alive today (loch ness monster, etc.)

Why would Nessie need to go on the Ark

 

[Mallon]

(Side note: even if Nessie were real, she still wouldn't be a dinosaur. )

 

[jereth]

You forgot a key point. Phaeton was made mostly of reactive metals (Cs, Fr) and when the water receeded, it flew off the planet and hit Phaeton. The resulting reaction caused the explosion creating the craters on moons and planets. This also explains where the water went after the Flood.

ah, so that's why Noah had to remain on the ark for an extra 2 months after the earth was dry (Genesis 8:13, 14), because there were still meteorites raining down.

What about the floodwaters on Mars? Where did they go?