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For those who believe that Noah's flood is not global, how do they reconcile it with universal judgment?
Several Christian Bible scholars / theologians, for various reasons, want to interpret the flood in Genesis 6-9 as "not global" (see various interpretation). Those who believe there was a ...
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What are reasons (scientific or otherwise) to reject a literal and historical take on Noah's Flood (Genesis 6:9-9:17)?
Some Christians (e.g., Young-Earth Creationists) believe in a literal interpretation of the Genesis account. In particular, they believe in the historical occurrence of a massive worldwide flood that ...
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How do those who understand Noah's Flood to be a global flood explain what the carnivorous animals ate after disembarking?
How do those who understand Noah's Flood to be a global flood explain what the carnivorous animals ate after disembarking, if there were only 2 of all the other species left? Eating 1 would stop those ...
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How do those who hold to a literal interpretation of the flood account respond to the criticism that Noah building the ark would be unfeasible?
In Longman and Walton's book The Lost World of the Flood (2018) they argue that the account of Noah's flood in the book of Genesis, although based on an historical event, employs rhetorical devices ...
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What is the "violence" (Gen 6:11) that prompted God to bring on the Great Flood during the time of Noah?
In Gen 6:11, the narrator says, "The earth was filled with violence." It is this "violence" that moves God to plan the Great Flood.
The 2014 movie, "Noah," dramatizes ...
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Was it on the basis of the devastation of the flood that man was allowed animal flesh?
Genesis 9:3 NASB
3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I have given everything to you, as I gave the green plant.
In the narrative in Genesis 9 after the flood man is allowed to ...
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Issue comprehending Genesis and the Great Flood
Ok so just from an empirically measurable perspective, we know that inbreeding leads to deformed offspring, why didn't this happen with Adam and Eve, and Noah and whoever he choose to go on board the ...
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Christian apologetics regarding the killing of innocent children during the Genesis flood [closed]
I'm trying to catalog the various justifications that are put forth when it is claimed that killing innocent children in the Genesis flood was some combination of immoral, cruel, or unjust.
Here are ...
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Which was written first Noah’s Flood or the Gilgamesh Epic?
I am finding conflicting information on the web...
Was it Book of Genesis or the Gilgamesh Epic that was written first?
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If the flood was recent and local, then when did humans become omnivores?
After the flood, in Genesis 9:2-3, God gives humans permission to begin eating animals.
We are finding traces of human civilization going back tens of thousands of years for Native Americans, so they ...
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Spectrum of Interpretation on Great Flood
The Great Flood of Noah is a classic Bible story - and a contentious one. Many would argue that traditional or literal interpretations cannot be squared with modern scientific thinking - others reject ...
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Are there any complete tables that can accurately pinpoint the year of the flood?
Answers in Genesis -> Timeline for the Flood says that the Flood happened in 1656 Anno Mundi.
However, they don't provide similar table to tell that the exact same Flood starts at 2348 BC. Instead it ...
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What are the main similarities and differences between the Genesis and other major ancient flood accounts? [closed]
Have any of you read the Atrahasis Epic? It's the Babylonian/Akkadian version of the Great Flood. I found it had striking similarities with the Flood Account in Genesis!! (Read it if you have not ...
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Is there any Christian theological model for a non-literal ark?
The most common debate about Noah's flood is whether the flood was global or local. I want to put this particular debate aside for a moment, and ask a different question: Did the flood happen at all?
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Why did human lifespans drop after the Flood?
In Genesis 5, a brief account of the lives of Adam's descendants is narrated. All of them had long lives, for instance, Adam lived 930 years, Seth lived 912 years, etc.
But in Genesis 6:3, God seems ...
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How do local flood proponents explain God's promises to never do it again?
Some Christians believe that Noah's Flood was a local event, and that the author of the Flood narrative never intended it to be understood as global in scope.
My question is, how then would we explain ...
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Clarification about "sons of God" who caused flood? [duplicate]
In Genesis 6:2, it says, "the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose." I thought that the only Son of God was Jesus. Does this mean that ...
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If God is omniscient how can he regret? [duplicate]
It is said in the bible that God is omniscient but if he is omniscient how can he regret his actions?
I'm especially interested in this question in context of Genesis 6:6:
The LORD was sorry that ...
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If Noah's Flood was a historical global flood then how is the evidence that Egypt was founded before the Flood explained? [duplicate]
The common consensus is that Noah's flood occurred around the 2200-2300 BCE. If this is so, then how could Egypt have been founded by Narmer in 3100 BCE? Is Mizraim the founder of Egypt? Or is Mizraim ...
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Does Scripture mention whether it rained before the flood?
I've often heard it said that the flood of Noah was the first time that the earth experienced rain. This is the passage people use:
Genesis 2:5-6 ESV When no bush of the field was yet in the land ...
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Does Cain still have descendants on the earth? [closed]
According to Genesis 5:
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in
his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam
lived 800 years and had other ...
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What defined a "clean" animal prior to the flood when mankind did not eat meat?
In Genesis 7, God tells Noah to take with him 7 pairs of clean animals in contrast to only one pair of all other animals. Additionally, 7 pairs of birds were to be taken as well.
Take with you ...
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What arguments do adherents of a global flood give for how water was able to cover the entire earth?
Some people say that the story of Noah and flood is false, because there simply wasn't enough water in the world to cover the entire earth in a flood. As it is written:
And the waters became mighty ...
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Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood? [closed]
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. - John 3:16
John 3:16 tells us that God loved us, so ...
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What narrative purpose does the Flood story fulfill? [closed]
In the Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh flood myth, the gods are rash, foolish, even weak.
Genesis copies most of the myth. And although it's sanitized quite a bit, some actions seem to be ...
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What did the carnivores/predators eat on the Ark? [closed]
It's something that has stumped me since I was a kid:
What did the carnivores/predators eat on the Ark?
Did Noah also round up sufficient vegetation to feed all of the animals? Or did they somehow ...
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How did Noah preserve fresh water fish?
How did Noah prevent fresh water fish from dying when salt water inundated inland waterways during the claimed floods? I'm not sure which Christian doctrines take the literalist position but what is ...
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What is the interpretation of the bow in the cloud after the Flood?
After the Flood abates, God reassures Noah that it was a one time event:
Genesis 9:13 (ESV)
I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
The ...
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Universe made of water?
Genesis 1:1-2 accounts what was before God gave form to the Earth, and that is water:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was ...
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Why did people live so long before the Flood?
In Genesis 5, some of the descendants of Adam are listed with their ages. The people listed lived very much longer than anybody does today. For example, Adam lived to be 930. The oldest age, 969 years,...
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How did all the animals fit into Noah's ark? [closed]
During the great flood Noah was ordered by God to fetch two animals of each species and put them into his ark.
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of
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Was the flood of Noah global or local? [closed]
Genesis 7 and 8 describes the flood of Noah, and says in part:
The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. They rose greatly on the earth, ...
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