Subj : The Worldwide Flood
To   : All
From : Newborn
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 23:31:00

People who accept the concept of the "geological ages" commonly have to explain
away the great deluge by assuming it was not really a global flood,  They
realize that any flood that would rise until "all the high hills, that were
under the whole heaven, were covered" and in which "every living substance was
destroyed which was upon the face of the ground" (Genesis 7:19,21) would
undoubtedly eliminate any evidence of the supposed geological ages.

Therefore, they have suggested modifying the Bible record to mean an overflow
of the Euphrates River or some such phenomenon which would destroy just the
peoples of the "known" world at that time.

There are numerous problems with this "local flood" notion, however.  There are
at least 100 reasons why the Biblical Flood must be understood as worldwide and
cataclysmic.

But probably the best argument is that such an argument makes God out to be a
liar!  God promised Noah that this kind of flood would never be seen on the
earth again.  There have been innumerable river floods, tsunamis, torrential
regional rains, etc...in the more than four millennia since Noah's day.

If God's promise referred only to some such flood as one of these, then He has
not kept His word!.  But God does not lie, and He 'has' kept His promise.
There has never been another such Flood. "He that believeth not God hath made
Him a liar" (I John 5:10).  It would seem that people should seriously re-think
their position.

Newborn

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