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It is more important to discover why the story of the flood was placed in the bible.....as opposed to whether or not it really happened or if it were local or global. Then, and only then, can we become doers of the word, and not hearers only.
 
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Could you please use punctuation when writing? I can't understand your response.
 
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The flood covered the “face of the earth”
Gen 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Cain had been cast out of the “face of the earth”
Gen 4:14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Cain did not leave the planet, so “face of the earth”, did not necessarily mean the entire planet.
 
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Could you please use punctuation when writing? I can't understand your response.
it would be very disingenuous to say that, every verse you can use to prove global also can prove regional. We should always exegesis scripture no matter what as we can interpret the scripture in varities of ways.
 
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interesting
 
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You are already deceived, by your comments you have already made
no im just showing my perspective i just dont see any real defense for your position just ad homs attacks
 
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Science had it origin's from pagan people. And there is nothing in the Bible that lines up with the lies of science.
false almost every single biblical story aligns with science like big bang etc. all aligns with the bible and the origins of science does not defend your premises
 
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it would be very disingenuous to say that, every verse you can use to prove global also can prove regional. We should always exegesis scripture no matter what as we can interpret the scripture in varities of ways.

So you are saying that we cannot prove that the Bible certainly teaches a global flood?
 
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So you are saying that we cannot prove that the Bible certainly teaches a global flood?
very much so i can have a rebuttal for every premise for Global flood
 
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The flood covered the “face of the earth”


Cain had been cast out of the “face of the earth”


Cain did not leave the planet, so “face of the earth”, did not necessarily mean the entire planet.
correction the use of face of the earth does not necessarily mean whole planet flood it can be interpreted in a variety of ways
 
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If there is exegetical room for doubt here then I would be comfortable with multiple views.
we can denote different beliefs of course we are christians we both have different interpretations and beliefs concerning Genesis, we gotta make sure we keep up our arguments with scripture and establish why we hold these grounds i agree with everything u said.
 
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Putting one's faith in some physical ways of understanding the Flood would not be a version (or related to) the basis for faith that Jesus said is the (only!) one that works(!) -- Matthew 7:24-27 (And therefore, it's actually of no crucial importance, the mere physical side of it!)

About the Flood, some of the most key parts are before, in verses 5 through 11 of chapter 6. Words that many people might prefer not to really consider, because they are uncomfortable possibly. They describe a situation/condition we'd like to think isn't possible, is why they are not well known I think.

Could it be that people could descend into a condition where there is no love or kindness at all, not even occasionally? Could people become so evil that they are only evil all of the time? We are challenged by this text at some point in life, if we read it. I think people might read this section, and then later the mind doesn't want to remember the words!
 
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this thread is directed to hyper-literalism of course i know what the flood is about this thread is not directed for that aspect im on the creationalism forum
 
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all life started in the middle east right it can literally mean all flesh in regards to the flesh that was alive which was all in the middle east which we understood with pangea so a regional flood could still kill all flesh

Hogwash, try reading your Bible.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
 
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the thing i am advocating for is regional flood which can be accepted biblically and scientifically with pangea and what God first put life upon
Only it's says the world. You are just trying to make it fit current theories. You are looking at it backward.
 
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ad hom nice
and what does those two verses prove please tell me and i agree with this verse i just dont see what revelance these verses have to my post i yet got a good refutation from my original post
 
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Hyper- literalism? Lol, because we believe it means what it says?
hyper-literalism are people who interpret everything literally and denoting any other factors for revelancy
 
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