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Did the flood of Noah cover the entire earth? Astrophysicist Hugh Ross on what the Bible says
Christian Post ^ | 11/26/2019 | Brandon Showalter

Posted on 11/26/2019 8:19:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/26/2019 8:19:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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There’s plenty of water on earth to cover the entire earth.

There’s up to 11 times more water within the earth’s mantle than in all the oceans of the globe. That’s a lot of water. According to Scripture, that’s where the flood waters came from — when the fountains of the earth erupted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_distribution_on_Earth#Water_in_Earth’s_mantle


2 posted on 11/26/2019 8:23:49 AM PST by Theo (FReeping since 1998 ... drain the swamp.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What’s significant is that the Ark finally came to rest, and mankind was saved from the judgment, on the same date (17 Nisan/Aviv) as Christ rose from the dead. (Mankind was spared on both dates.)


3 posted on 11/26/2019 8:26:24 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: SeekAndFind

maybe the flood just covered the known earth...

like the basin of humanity...


4 posted on 11/26/2019 8:26:37 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The author makes some good points.


5 posted on 11/26/2019 8:27:35 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How long can you tread water?


6 posted on 11/26/2019 8:28:07 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“How long can you tread water?”

Not 40 days...that’s for sure


7 posted on 11/26/2019 8:30:45 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: SeekAndFind

No.

A flood that would cover the entire planet past the top of Mt. Everest for over a month would not have any life on it today like it does.


8 posted on 11/26/2019 8:32:57 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Not 40 days...that’s for sure

That was the rain. In Genesis 7 is says that after it stopped raining the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days before the Ark landed on Mt. Ararat. Then Noah waited 40 more days before the waters receded enough to land. And 3 months after landing the waters had completely receded. Lot of time to be paddling around.

9 posted on 11/26/2019 8:38:32 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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“And from what we see in the first 11 chapters in Genesis, by the time of Noah, human beings had yet to build cities in Antarctica and Greenland and, therefore, there would be no need for God to flood Antarctica and Greenland,” Ross elaborated.”


This guy assumes the current continental layout is what it was during the Flood.

How does he prove that what’s known as Pangea was the continental layout pre-Flood?

Genesis 1:9 “And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.”

If the waters were gathered “in one place,” doesn’t that imply the dry land was also?

If not “the whole earth,” how does the author explain evidence of the highest places on Earth at one time supporting sea life? (fossil record)

My view is that part of the Flood event was rapid continental drift and plate movement, to include collisions that uplifted the major mountain ranges we see today.


10 posted on 11/26/2019 8:39:53 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, just the parts with evil people on it.............


11 posted on 11/26/2019 8:42:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: SeekAndFind

No.


12 posted on 11/26/2019 8:42:29 AM PST by bgill
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When non-Christians discover that the Bible does not teach that the floodwaters covered the whole earth they are more open to considering its claims as a serious, inerrant document, Ross explained.

Except that part of it does teach that the floodwaters covered the whole earth while another part, perhaps, teaches it didn't. That doesn't lend a lot to inerrancy.

13 posted on 11/26/2019 8:43:11 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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His theory makes no sense Biblically. The Bible clearly states that Noah and his family were the only survivors of the Flood, and the animals they brought with them. It was definitely not local. But I guess you don’t get invited to the better parties with a child-like faith in God.


14 posted on 11/26/2019 8:45:41 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It may or may not have, but the bible doesn’t pretend to be a science book. When OT writers talked of the earth, they were talking of what they knew. They saw the earth as a flat circle with a big water dome over it supported by the pillars of the mountains. It is the picture that was in their minds whenever they said “the whole earth”.

I leave it to science to determine if it was the whole earth as we know it, or the whole earth as they knew it. And science may show that it was the whole earth as they knew it and, also, the whole earth as we know it.


15 posted on 11/26/2019 8:45:42 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: CondorFlight
What’s significant is that the Ark finally came to rest, and mankind was saved from the judgment, on the same date (17 Nisan/Aviv) as Christ rose from the dead. (Mankind was spared on both dates.)

Amazing isn’t it? I also found out what the names mean, from Adam to Noah. I think it is the gospel in a simplified format.

16 posted on 11/26/2019 8:46:02 AM PST by Mark17 (Dad of Air Force Officer in pilot training. Air Force aircraft, go much faster than Army tanks)
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And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.


17 posted on 11/26/2019 8:47:44 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: dfwgator

“Alright God, You and me!!!”


18 posted on 11/26/2019 8:48:48 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: HombreSecreto

“If not “the whole earth,” how does the author explain evidence of the highest places on Earth at one time supporting sea life? (fossil record)”

No human or elephant fossils?


19 posted on 11/26/2019 8:49:38 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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I'm not sure I believe it, because it really doesn't matter to me, but .... I've seen the animations that appear to show all land was at one time .... one piece and that earthquakes or whatever split it all up and great, big "islands" floated (via tectonic plate activity) from each other and they became the continents.

ESPECIALLY if that's true, a global flood seems quite possible.

I don't deny scripture and God said it covered the earth withouth defining what "earth" was except .... it is THE earth .... American, African, Australian, etc.

20 posted on 11/26/2019 8:49:48 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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