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 1 19  |                 19. The universal flood.~The Biblical teaching about
 2 19  |       Biblical teaching about the Flood (Genesis 6 and 7), which
 3 19  |            First off all, was the Flood mentioned in the Bible geographically
 4 19  |          in other words, that the Flood covered mostly regions in
 5 19  |           that the purpose of the Flood was to punish sinners and
 6 19,1|        Geographical extent of the Flood.~ The Bible gives the following
 7 19,1|             Seven days before the Flood, God commands the patriarch
 8 19,1|         the very day on which the Flood begins; the rain falls for
 9 19,1|         The extent of the Genesis flood would be limited to the
10 19,1|           lands), but not global, flood. The four different Hebrew
11 19,1|      describe the receding of the flood waters indicate that these
12 19,1|          words, the waters of the flood are still to be found within
13 19,1|      would be needed for a global flood, it should be clear that
14 19,1|         be clear that the Genesis flood could not have been global.~
15 19,1|        that until the time of the Flood, human beings and their
16 19,1|         deluge, God would need to flood only the Mesopotamian plain
17 19,1|      Genesis account of the great flood is not an embarrassment
18 19,1|           evidence for a regional flood mean that the Genesis flood
19 19,1|       flood mean that the Genesis flood was not universal? Not at
20 19,1|           Not at all. The Genesis flood was “universal” in that
21 19,1|         humans at the time of the Flood — the whole Western Hemisphere,
22 19,1|           One might assume that a Flood of such immense proportions
23 19,1|            Several large alluvial flood deposits have been found
24 19,1|        Mitchell, “Geology and the Flood,” in New Bible Dictionary,
25 19,1|        time range for the Genesis Flood. The lack of a precise enough
26 19,1|       precise enough date for the Flood, however, hinders any positive
27 19,1|     positive identification.~ The Flood, though massive, lasted
28 19,1|          one year and ten days. A flood of such brief duration typically
29 19,1|     erased. Similarly, a one-year flood in the region of Mesopotamia,
30 19,1|           later.~ In summary, the flood event described in Genesis
31 19,1|       regional rather than global Flood. The floodwaters came from
32 19,1|           explanation of a global Flood, without leaving evidence
33 19,1|         to be saved and after the Flood returned to their native
34 19,1|       could they survive a global flood. The water of a global flood
35 19,1|      flood. The water of a global flood could not recede in less
36 19,1|         regional but not a global flood. No viable scientific evidence
37 19,1|         found for a recent global flood.   ~On the other hand, there
38 19,1| indications and hints that a huge flood did occur in the time of
39 19,2|                   Evidence of the Flood.~According to Genesis 7:
40 19,2|           of the narration of the Flood as found in the sixth chapter
41 19,2|           of the tradition of the flood speaks seriously for its
42 19,2|       historicity of the Biblical flood account is confirmed by
43 19,2|       enumerates sixty-three such flood stories which are, in his
44 19,2|  discusses eighty-eight different flood stories, and considers sixty-two
45 19,2|           they do not possess any flood traditions, but because
46 19,2|          Lenormant pronounces the flood story as the most universal
47 19,2|      Great a myth, as to call the flood tradition a fable. It would,
48 19,2|         had their traditions of a flood, and that one man and his
49 19,2|           vast, sudden and deadly flood around 5,600 B.C., close
50 19,2|   scientific corroboration of the Flood was the work of British
51 19,2|          was evidence of a deadly flood that appeared to substantiate
52 19,2|        evidence of an apocalyptic flood 7,500 years ago. The expedition
53 19,2|      first visual evidence that a flood had occurred in the region
54 19,2|        the publication of “Noah's Flood” by Columbia University
55 19,4|               Significance of the Flood.~ The question of the flood
56 19,4|       Flood.~ The question of the flood is not just a detail but
57 19,4| historical meaning, the universal flood also has a dogmatic and
58 19,4|          and ethical meaning.~The flood is referred to in several
59 19,4|          variants under which the flood tradition lives in the most
60 19,4|         as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking,
61 19,4|           they knew not. till the flood came, and took them all
62 19,4|         words, Christ regards the flood with its circumstances as
63 19,4|          same view concerning the flood in Luke 17:26-27. In the
64 19,4|      about the historicity of the flood: “By faith, Noe having received
65 19,4|         refers to the ark and the flood as historical facts: “When