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>From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu]On
>Behalf Of Vernon Jenkins
>Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:06 PM
>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?
First, I will say this of my views. They do one thing that others
don't--they don't contradict observation and they make sense of the
anthropological data. But it is obvious that in the market place of ideas
that my views are not viewed well. And there is no way to demonstrate that
the views are actually true. That I won't try to do. But I do know that all
other views of the flood require ignoring observational data and thus they
are simply false. Mine probably is also, but as of this moment there isn't
any scientific data to contradict it. There is merely the lack of
confirmation which is a different thing. As time goes on I am losing
interest in this area as other things are more worrying, like the lack of
any confirmation of the Exodus or much of ancient Jewish history.
Now to your question. Genesis 6:13 says:
13And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the
earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them
with the earth.
The word 'earth' is more commonly translated as 'land'. One can argue that
the ancient hebrews didn't have the concept of planet earth as we do. That
in itself argues for a local flood. In normal local floods, the land dries
out and the land isn't destroyed, it is restored. This verse clearly says
that the land was DESTROYED. Such a scenario as mine or even the Black Sea
flood, land is actually destroyed--it becomes ocean and is not restored.
The flesh was destroyed so why not the land? The type of local flood you
are talking about doesn't destroy the land.
glenn
see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
for lots of creation/evolution information
anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
personal stories of struggle
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