Re: BIBLE- Gen 9:15

Glenn,

In your view, recently expressed, "One can argue that this passage (Genesis
9:15) falsifies the Bible entirely because
there wasn't a flood to destroy all flesh..." But, surely, the terms of the
Noahic Covenant seem clear enough: "...the waters shall no more become a
flood to destroy all flesh." - obviously implying that they once did! And
believing that they once did is hardly to display a "blind adherence to a
particular point of view" - for this is _God's revealed word_ we're talking
about.

Vernon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Morton" <glennmorton@entouch.net>
To: "'Steven Carr'" <Steven@bowness.demon.co.uk>; <asa@lists.calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:58 PM
Subject: RE: BIBLE- Gen 9:15

> Sorry, but I am always amazed how blind adherence to a particular point
> of view makes people blind to what a Bible verse actually says:
>
> Genesis 9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and
> you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more
> become a flood to destroy all flesh.
>
> What is that last word? Why, its "FLESH!" The Bible isn't promising
> that there won't be more floods. Just more floods to wipe out all flesh.
>
>
> One can argue that this passage falsifies the Bible entirely because
> there wasn't a flood to destroy all flesh, but one can't argue that it
> says that there will be no more floods. It just says there won't be any
> future floods to kill everything.
>
> One other take on this verse. If every single animal on the land (eretz)
> which was flooded by Noah's flood was actually killed, then even the
> above might not be an objection. In most floods there are survivors.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu
>> [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Carr
>> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:17 AM
>> To: asa@lists.calvin.edu
>> Subject: BIBLE- Gen 9:15
>>
>>
>> Is God promising in Genesis 9:15 that there will never again
>> be a localised, regional flood?
>> --
>> Steven Carr
>>
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 28 15:25:45 2005