From: Glenn Morton
From: Allen Roy
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. 36-39 "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 about 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."
Allen, no where in the above does it say that the flood was global, and no where in the above does it say that the earth is young. It says there was a flood. There are few adjectives here. This can't be your source.
"People were eating and drinking...." How many people? 5? 500? 5000? 5,000,000?
"And took them all away..." How many were taken away? All 5? All 500? All 5000? All 5,000,000?
In the context, "all nations" will see Jesus come. Is that "all nations" in the Americas? "all nations" of Africa? or "all nations of the world?
The second coming will be like it was at the advent of the Flood (see the last line of verse 39). All nations of the world will see Jesus come just as all the people of the world were all taken away in the flood. Unless the entire population of the entire pre-flood world was concentrated within a small region, it is safe to conclude that the flood was global.
Is this the only source? No. All inclusive terminology is used throughout Gen. 6-8.
It is possible, of course, to choose to restrict the set of those thing qualifying to be in the all inclusive terminology. However, the incentive to do so does not come from the context of the Bible, but from outside influences such interpretations of reality within Naturalism.
Allen
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