RE: [asa] Noah's local flood?

If you don't trust the Bible, trust the Sumerian King List that lists
variously from seven to ten kings and after Ziusudra says, "then the
flood swept thereover." You don't have to rely on Scripture, you can
put your faith in the Sumerians. They wouldn't lead you astray. They
might sprinkle in a few gods and goddesses for good measure, but all the
cities named pan out with archaeological evidence.

Yours faithfully,
 
Dick Fischer, author, lecturer
Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham
www.historicalgenesis.com
 

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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [asa] Noah's local flood?

Endless discussions on this over the years.

Almost always the same unanswerable questions.

A long time ago I became convinced that there was little - or possibly
no - history in the first 11 chapters of Genesis. It is all myth.
Which does not make it untrue, or useless. But its intent cannot be to
teach literal history. Anymore than Mark Twain's intent was to tell
the literal history of a real person named Huck Finn.

I'm not really pleased with where my thinking has led on this. I would
very much like, for instance, to see Glenn's theory of the flood at
least partially vindicated by discoveries on the Med sea bottom. But I
perceive this as a long shot.

Yeah -- I know the "slippery slope" argument. But the alternative
seems (to me) to be intellectual suicide.

Burgy

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