The Flood is more than a morality lesson. It reads plain enough to me, I haven't even been to Bible school.
I've already posted this response in the SIX DAY Creation thread, but here's a copy for the folks in the this particular thread:
Mat 24:37-39 "For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. "For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be
I can list out (if you wish) dozens of verses that account for the Flood. I need to start a new thread about the flood - I'm AMAZED, stunned, shocked, astounded, bewildered, perplexed, suprised, flabbergasted, dumbfounded, floored, floundered, stupified, staggered, stunned, and totally confused as to why...my dear brothers in the faith the Flood is dismissed so casually.
The greatest threat to evolutionistic integrity is uniformitarianism - the flood seems to really bother evolutionists, and I do not know why. It seems simple enough, especially to a believer that there was a flood. Many remarkable discoveries have given the flood greater credibility over the years, and have removed much of the fog of "millions of years". Perhaps there is a weakness to evolution that is taboo to consider? I pray that among you men of faith this is not the case.
Please bear with me while I support the Flood:
Gen 6:17 "Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.
Gen 7:12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.
Gen 7:17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
Gen 7:18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
Gen 7:19 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. (not a local flood)
Gen 7:20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
Gen 6:15 And this [is the fashion] which thou shalt make it [of]: The length of the ark [shall be] three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
> Smart God to keep the Ark from hitting bottom!
Gen 7:21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
Gen 7:22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
Gen 7:23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.
Gen 7:24 The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Gen 8:2 Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained;
Gen 8:3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
Gen 8:4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.
Gen 8:5 The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
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Aside from the text - there are plenty more verses I'll be happy to share, but simply for verbosity sake I'll save them for another post, here's a few scientific points:
Sedimentary rock is formed in water. This is found all over the earth. Even the top of Mt Everest (29,000) feet is made of sedimentary rock and includes fossil sea life! Millions of petrified clams have been found with their shells closed, perhaps indicating a rapid burial? Bent rock layers, fossil graveyards, oil, coal, and polystrate fossils are best explained by a flood.
Gen 10:25 tells us the continents were divided 100-300 years after the flood, allowing plenty of migration all over the world - a valid possibility.
Gen 10:25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one [was] Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided
There is also enough water on the planet today to cover the earth 8,000 feet deep if the surface of the earth were smooth. Given modern erosion rates, this would have happened millions of years ago with a uniformitarianism viewpoint.
Psa 104:5[Who] laid the foundations of the earth, [that] it should not be removed for ever.
Psa 104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
Psa 104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Psa 104:8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Psa 104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
