RE: [asa] The Fall of man (Adamites- the local/global flood question)

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Dehler, Bernie wrote:

> John Walley said:
> "I can't help to be intrigued by how, other than the location and
> possibly the date, the Black Sea flood otherwise fits Noah's flood as
> being local, sudden and catastrophic."
> the global flood lasted a year).
>

Genesis doesn't tell us where Noah lived before the Flood, and it gives us
only the general region where the ark rested. Since gaps were fairly
common in Biblical genealogies, it also doesn't pin down a date. I seem to
recall that Glenn Morton in rejecting the Black Sea flood explanation said
that the water wouldn't have risen fast enough.

>
> If there's any solution at all to Noah and the ark, it must be a myth to
> teach spiritual things. In real life, the flood story doesn't add-up
> (as a real local or global flood).
>

Although it seems quite reasonable for every culture to have some sort of
creation story, it hardly seems necessary for someone to invent a flood
myth. Yet the Hebrews were not alone in having such a story. This seems to
suggest that there must have been an extraordinary event that was behind
the story. Attempts to identify this event are not confined to Christian
sources but pop up from time to time in secular publications.

Gordon Brown (ASA member)

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Received on Mon Jun 23 17:38:07 2008