Re: The Eight of the Ark

Michael, frame me a question for Dr Walton and I'll ask him. I'm
acquainted with him, a delightful happenstance! JimA

Michael Roberts wrote:

> Two examples ;
>
> Bernard Ramm The Christian View of Science and Scripture 1955 p 163
>
> Derek kidner Tyndale Commentary on Genesis p94
>
> JHWalton does not mention anything - avoids the issue?
>
> For myself I have never had a problem here that it was local
> anthropologically.
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Opderbeck <mailto:dopderbeck@gmail.com>
> To: asa@calvin.edu <mailto:asa@calvin.edu>
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 6:26 PM
> Subject: The Eight of the Ark
>
> Following along on some of the recent "Arkeology" discussions, I
> recently corresponded with a reasonably well-known OT scholar from
> an Evangelical seminary who holds a "local" view of the flood. I
> asked him for some references where Evangelical OT scholars
> discuss the possibility that the flood was local anthropologically
> as well as geographically. I was surprised that he said he didn't
> know of any. Citing 2 Peter 2:5, he said the NT confirms that the
> only eight members of the human race survived the flood. This
> seems odd to me, since this person would say that 2 Peter 3:6 and
> its context don't require that the flood was geographically
> global. If that's so, I'm not sure why scholars applying the same
> literal-historical-grammatical hermeneutic to both passages should
> be dogmatic about 2 Peter 2:5, which could be read along with the
> more limited understanding of "cosmos" in 2 Peter 3:6 to mean that
> of the people affected by the flood, only eight were saved.
> Moreover, unless the Biblical flood was tens of thousands of years
> ago, the extra-Biblical evidence pretty clearly shows that it
> couldn't have wiped out every human being alive on the face of the
> earth (even if "human being" has a very limited meaning). I have
> to believe that many ASA members with Evangelical convictions, and
> probably many who teach at Evangelical institutions which adhere
> to some form of "inerrancy," think along these lines.
>
> So anyway: does anyone here know of papers, commentaries, etc.
> from an Evangelical perspective that discuss this particular
> question? Please note that I'm not looking right now for a debate
> on the meaning or merits of "inerrancy."
>
>
>
Received on Fri Mar 24 16:18:26 2006