[PetroniusMaximus]

"He would know what God chose to tell him, and he would understand in accordance with his experience."

Then he is not precluded from writing of a universal flood if God had told him about it.

So what is your basis for the claim that, "taking the Bible as it is, it IS a story seen from a local point of View."

???

[RobbyS]

There is material evidence for a universal flood. In any case, I assume that God spoke to Moses in visions and that Moses understood the past as he understood the future, through a cloud.