Just so I have this straight: It didn't rain at all on the earth before the Noah/flood dealie,?

Question

Is that the official line?

Answer 1

Apparently but one person explained that a magical mist rose from the ground which helped things to grow. Makes perfect sense now.

Answer 2

Genesis 2:5 says as of yet no rain had fallen but there was this water cloud that enveloped the earth Gen 1:7& Job 38:9 and it was like a misty green house. Almost like growing plants in a bottle the mist keeps it wet. When all those tons of water clouds came down the earth split apart it says somewhere in the days when the earth was divided. That is why things look so old. The crushing weight of the continents moving and tons of water flooding. They can see where the earth was at one time split apart, it would fit together. Gen 10:25
So it was not just a local flood but a huge cataclysmic event.
Maybe that is when Atlantis went down under the water.

Answer 3

up to that point there had been no rain except for when it rained in the creation stages of earth in Genesis. That's why people laughed at Noah when he said a great flood was coming
I know you don't want to believe it and are probably thinking up some sarcastic questions to stabilize your belief that God doesnt' exist....bring 'em on.

Adam and Eve didn't use irrigation, God provide for the plants from a mist that arose from the ground, (good job cindy)

So unless you were a fisherman, then you probably would never see a boat your whole lifetime.

Roxton It didn't rain until the flood, that's why it flooded, has anybody seen what happens to a lot of water when it hits parched ground? It floods and fast, science prove that.
so imagine what happened when it rained for the first time and the ground that had never tasted water finally tasted water. yup it flooded

Answer 4

If the polar ice and all the permafrost in Antarctica melted now there wouldn't be enough to flood all the land on Earth (it would be bad for New York and Amsterdam, but the Andes would poke through, and plenty besides).

So this vapour canopy had enough water in it to flood the Earth with more water than there is now, all held in suspension waiting for God's first Really Bad Mood (did he always plan to drop a flood on everyone?)? Could the sun shine through all that suspended water? It must have been like having another ocean above you. What happened to gravity? Why do they keep asking why non-believers are so stupid?

Answer 5

What is this a debate now?

FYI, The great flood isn't just a christian "farytail". It's pretty much ever culture out there. about %99 of all ancient rechords talk about a great flood at the same time era. If you stand up against that then u stand up against solid history.

Answer 6

It was where I went to bible college. It "misted" - they even had a verse for it in Genesis. Those are for people that believe in the Canopy Theory (that before the flood there was a huge canopy of water around the earth).

Answer 7

I don't think that's official. Although I guess you could make that assumption from the fact that there was never a rainbow in the sky prior to the flood. But, there are not always rainbows, because the sun doesn' always come through the clouds and refract off the water drops. So, I guess you can just make your own assumption and run with it.

Answer 8

I seriously dont think so. It even says that God put water on the earth and in the Sky, so therefore, i seriously think there was rain before the flood. Otherwise God would have hat to explain to Noah exactly what rain was.

Answer 9

As I understand only the garden never saw rain. That didn't mean the rest of the world didn't... Jim

Answer 10

It did not rain at all, the earth was watered from a mist that would come up from the ground.