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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 6:24 am
(August 28, 2017 at 10:49 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: (August 28, 2017 at 8:33 am)alpha male Wrote: But if you actually read the Bible you might dump the assumption that mountains were the same height then as now...
Why would we look to the bible for geology?
Because we're in a thread asking the question, "So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??"
We read in Gen 1:9 "Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so." Waters in one place implies that the dry land was all in one place.
Then in Gen 10:25, after the flood: 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided.
So, you can interpret from these that the earth was in one place before the flood, then it was divided into continents after the flood. Mountains that are the result of tectonic activity therefore weren't there at the time of the flood.
Creationists who are really into such things though tend to believe that the continents were separated during the flood, and Gen 10 may refer to division of the people.
Doesn't really matter to me. I don't get why people on either side try to analyze a supernatural event in natural terms.
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 7:51 am
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(August 29, 2017 at 6:24 am)alpha male Wrote: I don't get why people on either side try to analyze a supernatural event in natural terms.
Because some are actually human heirs to the enlightenment and scientific revolution, not just baboons overawed by the ramblings of goat fucking desert charlatans.
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 7:51 am
(August 29, 2017 at 6:24 am)alpha male Wrote: (August 28, 2017 at 10:49 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Why would we look to the bible for geology?
Because we're in a thread asking the question, "So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??"
We read in Gen 1:9 "Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so." Waters in one place implies that the dry land was all in one place.
Then in Gen 10:25, after the flood: 25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided.
So, you can interpret from these that the earth was in one place before the flood, then it was divided into continents after the flood. Mountains that are the result of tectonic activity therefore weren't there at the time of the flood.
Creationists who are really into such things though tend to believe that the continents were separated during the flood, and Gen 10 may refer to division of the people.
Doesn't really matter to me. I don't get why people on either side try to analyze a supernatural event in natural terms.
Because it exposes these so-called supernatural events as bullshit?
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 10:04 am
"We read in Gen 1:9 "Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so." Waters in one place implies that the dry land was all in one place."
Even the wandering goat herders knew that wasn't correct. It means that the waters were to keep their appointed place, be it river, lake, ocean, swamp, whatever.
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 10:21 am
(August 28, 2017 at 8:33 am)alpha male Wrote: But if you actually read the Bible you might dump the assumption that mountains were the same height then as now...
Ha Ha! Look what you just wrote!
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 10:49 am
(August 29, 2017 at 7:51 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Because it exposes these so-called supernatural events as bullshit?
No, it doesn't. Once you accept a supernatural flood for the sake of discussion, there's no argument to be made against it. Even if the mountains were as high then, someone with supernatural control of the universe could create enough water to flood it, then destroy the water later. Duh.
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 10:51 am
(August 29, 2017 at 10:49 am)alpha male Wrote: (August 29, 2017 at 7:51 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Because it exposes these so-called supernatural events as bullshit?
No, it doesn't. Once you accept a supernatural flood for the sake of discussion, there's no argument to be made against it. Even if the mountains were as high then, someone with supernatural control of the universe could create enough water to flood it, then destroy the water later. Duh.
Yeah, once you lobotomize yourself, nothing looks stupid anymore. Duh.
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 10:53 am
Why would a being with supernatural control of the Universe do such ridiculously convoluted things in such a ridiculously convoluted way?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 11:24 am
(August 29, 2017 at 10:53 am)Cyberman Wrote: Why would a being with supernatural control of the Universe do such ridiculously convoluted things in such a ridiculously convoluted way?
and also He forgets to inundate Egypt . . .
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RE: So, what would an actual 'biblical' flood look like ??
August 29, 2017 at 11:59 am
To the OP, the text identifies TWO sources of water. Your calculations (which are based on a faulty hermenutic in the first place) don't take into account how much of the water came from the "fountains of the deep." It's an indeterminate two variable problem.
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
(Gen 7:11-12 KJV)
"The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;"
(Gen 8:2 KJV)
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