Vernon,
You argue as if local flood meant small flood. What most people on this
list seem to mean by local is nonglobal. This does not imply ordinary. I
would certainly take the Scriptures to indicate that Noah's flood had a
scope far greater than anything man has experienced since, and that does
not necessarily mean that I accept Glenn's time and location for it.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Vernon Jenkins wrote:
>
> Glenn,
>
> I have attempted to ascertain your understanding of God's promises to
> Noah (and,
> through him, to all mankind) following what you believe to have
>been a _local_
> Flood (Gen.8:21-9:17). As far as I am aware your web pages contain
>no reference
> to these important matters. However, no doubt you will remember that a
> significant item in the list is the guarantee that "neither shall
>all flesh be
> cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a
> flood to destroy the earth." (Gen.9:11).
>
> That all seems clear enough - but only if the Flood had been _global_ - for
> manifestly, since Noah's day, there have been many _local_ floods - some of
> which have wiped out whole communities. May I ask how you as a Christian and
> local flood theorist make sense of this matter?
>
> Vernon
>
>
>
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