Allen Roy wrote (in response to my asking to quote his source for the
following statement):
>>Creationists START with the assumptions that God's natural laws are not
>>violated and that there was a global catastrophic event as told us by God.
>>Jesus said:
>>Matt 24:30 "At that time, the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the
>>sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son
>>of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory." ....
>>
>>vs. 36 "No one knows about that day or our, not even the angels in
>>heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah,
>>so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before
>>the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
>>marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing
>>0about what would happen until the flood came and took them all
>>away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."
>>
>>Jesus is God. Jesus claims that the reality of his Second Coming is just
>>as real as the days of Noah when the flood came and took them ALL away.
I don't deny the flood. I corroborate the flood! The flood was judgment
upon those of the covenant - descendants of the first Adam. But there is
certainly nothing in the verses you quote here to suggest that the entire
geologic column was sequenced by it. Or that it engulfed Madagascar, for
one example, where lemurs have lived for millions of years evolving in
isolation into species unlike any others on this planet.
The verse you quoted also parallels Atrahasis
Although there are pieces missing out of the account, enough has been
recovered to show us the compassion and sorrow he must have felt in the
waning hours before the rain began to fall. After the birds, cattle, and
wild animals were put aboard, Atrahasis turned to his people for whom there
was no provision.
He invited his people [ ]
[ ] to a feast.
[ ] he put his family on board.
They were eating, they were drinking.
But he went in and out,
Could not stay still or rest on his haunches,
His heart was breaking and he was vomiting bile.
>>If the flood is mythology, then so is the Second Coming and Jesus is a
>>D___d liar.
I wouldn't put it that way exactly. Could we just say that the flood is
part of the Bible we trust for our salvation? Certainly I don't question
the flood event. The scope and breadth is another question. Your method
of apology demands some pretty unlikely feats for a simple flood.
Dick Fischer - The Origins Solution - www.orisol.com
"The answer we should have known about 150 years ago."
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