Subj : Re: The Worldwide Flood
To   : Finnigann
From : Newborn
Date : Sun Oct 09 2005 20:43:00

  Re: Re: The Worldwide Flood
  By: Finnigann to Newborn on Thu Oct 06 2005 12:18 pm

 > -=> Newborn wrote to All <=-
 > 
 >  Ne> People who accept the concept of the "geological ages" commonly have to
 >  Ne> explain away the great deluge by assuming it was not really a global
 >  Ne> flood,  They realize that any flood that would rise until "all the high
 >  Ne> hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered" and in which
 >  Ne> "every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the
 >  Ne> ground" (Genesis 7:19,21) would undoubtedly eliminate any evidence of
 >  Ne> the supposed geological ages.
 > 
 >  Ne> Therefore, they have suggested modifying the Bible record to mean an
 >  Ne> overflow of the Euphrates River or some such phenomenon which would
 >  Ne> destroy just the peoples of the "known" world at that time.
 > 
 >  Ne> There are numerous problems with this "local flood" notion, however.
 >  Ne> There are at least 100 reasons why the Biblical Flood must be
 >  Ne> understood as worldwide and cataclysmic.
 > 
 >  Ne> But probably the best argument is that such an argument makes God out
 >  Ne> to be a liar!  God promised Noah that this kind of flood would never be
 >  Ne> seen on the earth again.  There have been innumerable river floods,
 >  Ne> tsunamis, torrential regional rains, etc...in the more than four
 >  Ne> millennia since Noah's day.
 > 
 >  Ne> If God's promise referred only to some such flood as one of these, then
 >  Ne> He has not kept His word!.  But God does not lie, and He 'has' kept His
 >  Ne> promise. There has never been another such Flood. "He that believeth
 >  Ne> not God hath made Him a liar" (I John 5:10).  It would seem that people
 >  Ne> should seriously re-think their position.
 > 
 > Plus the fact that there isn't enough water to flood the world. (even once)
 > 
   It had never rained before the Flood there was only mist on the earth (Gen
   2:5-6) (i.e. a water canopy around the earth), yet it rained forty days and
   nights (40 is the number of judgement).  Genesis 7:11 also says that the 
   "fountains" of the deep were broken up".  Apparently there were underground
   caverns of water that were released, as well as the tremendous rain when the
   mist, or cloud of vapor that surrounded the earth all cam down at one time.

   The earth's crust collapsed deep into the previous subterranean reservior 
   chambers, forming the present ocean basins and causing extrusions of magman
   around their peripheries and through openings in their floors.  The light
   sediments in the sea troughts were forced upward by isotatic readjustment
   to form mountain ranges and plateaus.  
 
   Thus the waters originally stored in the vapor canopy and the subterranean 
   chambers are now stored mainly in the present ocean basins (those waters
   would be sufficient to cover a "smoothed" earth (from the violent movement
   of the teutanic plates) to a depth of almost 2 miles after the vast 
   topographic adustment that followed the flood.

Newborn

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