“So they didn’t have oceans 4800 years ago?”
Perhaps not. We clearly know the continents have shifted over time and mountains have been pushed up.
Here is something to think about...
The sources of the water are given in Genesis 7:11 as “the fountains of the great deep” and the “windows of heaven.”
Fountains of the deep implies water below ground. Windows of heaven implies a water canopy of some kind.
Separate the continents, push up the land mass, there is plenty of room for water to go...
Don’t have any claim to absolute here. Just thinkin’ with you...
True, but 5000 years is a short time for that sort of thing.
Separate the continents, push up the land mass, there is plenty of room for water to go...
I don't think so. If it was 13000 feet up on that mountain, then it was 13000 feet higher all around the world. If you shaved all the land off at sea level and then distributed it all into the ocean, would it rise 13000 feet? I don't think so.
One of the things that has intrigued me is the fact that God sent a rainbow as a sign after the flood. Apparently this was a unique event.
Perhaps there had never been rainbows before and therefore no rain or water vapor in the air until the flood. I wonder about that.
If I remember my college geology class, mountains made of igneous rock grow only millimeters a year (some shrink). I think Ararat is at least partially Volcanic, so that is a complicating value in the equation. But, as a volcano, I think it has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years. Ultimately, the chances of Ararat growing in any significant way - to say nothing of thousands of feet - in just 4,800 years, are slim.