(December 17, 2012 at 9:23 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(December 17, 2012 at 9:11 am)catfish Wrote: 1. The flood would have been at least the third time humanity had started "fresh" according to Genesis.Citations please.
Genesis 1:28 (KJV)
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
(December 17, 2012 at 9:23 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(December 17, 2012 at 9:11 am)catfish Wrote: 2. The Bible isn't specific about the flood being world-wide.Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
Pretty conclusive as far as your creationist buddies are concerned.
הָאָרֶץ , the orinal Hebrew word translated to "earth" had/s multiple meanings...
הָאָרֶץ = nf. country, land; earth, ground, geo-; territory : http://translation.babylon.com/hebrew/to-english/
(December 17, 2012 at 9:23 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(December 17, 2012 at 9:11 am)catfish Wrote: 3. Based on the text, it could be argued that the flood was to eradicate genetic impurities, not so much just to eliminate "evil"...Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
What bit of the text do you wish to counter with?
Genesis 6 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
The bolded and/or italicised aboves indicates what some believe to be an arguable point of contention. I agree...
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