Vernon,
Since you don't know how much of the earth mankind had settled `when men
began to multiply on the face of the land' (Gen. 6:1), you can't know how
much of it had to be flooded to wipe them out.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
> I don't know the translation from which you draw this conclusion. The AV
> (Gen.6:7) reads "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have
> created from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping
> thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made
> them." I understand this to be a fair rendering of the Hebrew. As far as
> I am concerned, therefore, when God himself says "...from the face of
> the earth ..." - all men, apart from Noah and his family, having been
> deemed "corrupt", and worthy of death - that must mean, and require, a
> global flood.
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