(July 3, 2014 at 8:31 am)Stimbo Wrote: Thank you. What I was asking for was a reference in the text describing this flood which makes it clear it was a local, rather than global, event - not examples of similar language employed elsewhere in the book in a hyperbolic sense. I don't care what Caesar said; he wasn't there at the flood nor was he describing it. Clearly the flood narrative in context is quite unambiguous on the point of its being worldwide and can't in all conscience be interpreted otherwise.context is the key: from the perspective of the authors and audience, the 'world' meant people, the land meant the ground under the feet stretching from horizon to horizon. from the text before the 1st day the earth's surface was completely covered with water. later reads after the mountains rose and the valleys sank down, a boundary was established and the waters would never again return to cover them. when the apostle peter later comment on the genesis flood he said that by the waters of that time were a judgment that came from God upon all the ungodly (reprobation plagued the pre-flood society - reprobates according to peter not only do evil, the also cheer on others to do evil, and enjoy recruiting others to live as they do). that was the extent of it. there are biblical geographical makers that place the flood in the persian gulf, mesopotamia area which is near the location of eden.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
