I there was really a great flood that covered the entire planet then the ocean's salinity would have greatly decreased. If this happened almost all life would have died out in the oceans. Today we would find the oceans of the world almost bare. How come this is not the case if there was really a great flood?
2006-07-09 12:01:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The world looked very diffrent a billion years ago. The continents were joined together and in different formation. Many parts that are above water today were not back then. The shifting of the land masses created this effect.
2006-07-09 12:10:25 · update #1
Wait -- you are taking a matter of faith and of a miraculous nature and then applying scientific reasoning and wondering why it doesn't make sense? And the best problem you can find is the flood? Wow...try harder next time and discuss the sun standing still, or the Nile turning to blood...
2006-07-09 12:06:18 · answer #1 · answered by rosends 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually more than Christian's tell the tale of a flood that covered the Earth, there are a few other cultures that tell the same story but with diffrent plots and such. That tells us that there WAS a flood since more than one religon/reigon tells a tale about it.
Well if there was a great flood I'd think ocean life would thrive, more places to swim around in, mate and all of that jazz. Now thanks to Gobal warming the oceans are heating up and killing off sea life.
2006-07-09 12:06:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I live on a 127 acre farm in Indiana...there is a very large hill on my farm..at the top of that hill is fossils all over the..literally on the ground..they are the remains of ocean dwelling creatures. The University of Purdue has sent student to pick up boxes full.
How did the ocean come to Southern Indiana?
2006-07-09 12:07:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.
Gen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
The word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time.
Gen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.
Gen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.
Gen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
The word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.
Gen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Gen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
If the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.
Gen 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Remember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.
Some consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.
Ussher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.
Records of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption.
So Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7, Jer.4:23-27.
Psa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
2006-07-09 12:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not the entire planet. It covered the Prophet Noah (PBUH) region and all the sorrounding areas.
2006-07-09 12:04:14 · answer #5 · answered by A K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was not the whole planet!
2006-07-09 12:05:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you really understand what you are saying
2006-07-09 12:06:18 · answer #7 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you believe in fairy tails?
2006-07-09 12:06:37 · answer #8 · answered by Pobept 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋