Who believes there was actually a worldwide flood as described by the Bible?

Question

If you do, how was there enough water to cover all the land? Does it have to be physically possible, or do you invoke the supernatural to explain it?

Answer 1

Yes it did happen

Answer 2

No. i'd evaluate the threat that the tale of the flood became surpassed right down to all Noah's grandchildren and their toddlers after them. by the years the information may have grow to be blurred slightly, yet no longer unavoidably plagiarized. i trust there are more beneficial than 50 different international flood money owed. some are strikingly similar, others no longer a lot so. Why do human beings position such credibility on very previous writings, yet no longer the Bible. No rfile in human historic past has received as a lot scrutiny, yet get up to each and each and every of the 'severe' criticisms. there is no artifact in historic past that has been studied, analyzed, probed, criticized, or examined like the Bible. nevertheless, human beings nonetheless scoff at it.

Answer 3

I think that you are asking and thinking too literally to understand what is being referred to as a worldwide flood. Our world today is much larger than Noah's. We do have a global society and access to information almost instantly no matter where we reside on the earth. Noah's world was relatively small. A flood that would cover his world and last for over a month would have been most uncommon, but very possible.

Answer 4

Yes, I believe there was a global flood that covered the mountains. It was called, the ice ages, of which the last one receeded about 10 thousand years ago. During the warming, melting period, there was plenty of more local flooding from ice damns breaking any where south of the great melting mass.
The story of a great flood is in every culture, independant of other cultures. It had never rained, before that time because the ice flow was capturing every particle of moisture in the atmosphere, and freezing it unto herself.

Answer 5

There are many cultures, including the Chinese and the Mayan that recorded a huge flood. I do not believe in the story of Noah, however. That is too absurd. Man has a need to explain the unknown, I think someone made up the story of Noah to instill fear.

Answer 6

The idea of Noah and his ark is total nonsense.

According to the Genesis geneology, the Biblical Flood took place when Noah was 600 years old, which, assuming the earth to have been created in 4004 BC, would place the Flood at about 2400 BC (about the same time as the Pyramids were being built). Yet no historical records of that time period, from the Egyptians, Phoenecians, Greeks or anybody else, mentions any such event (they could, after all, hardly have missed it). Historical records from such ancient civilizations as the Chinese or the inhabitants of the Indus Valley show no period of time where these civilizations were suddenly wiped out by a global flood, to be slowly repopulated later. There is simply no evidence whatever, from archeology, geology or history, which indicate a worldwide flood that wiped out all but eight people.

Answer 7

There was likely major flooding in "the whole world" as the writers knew it. They obviously would not be in a position to know whether there was flooding in Australia or North and South America, places they never dreamed existed. The "whole world" to the writers of the time meant the various countries around the Mediterranean.

Answer 8

I believe there was a flood as described in the Bible.
I have heard alot of ways this could have been done try google if you want to find some of the Christian theories there is alot of them (ALOT)
or you could read the Bible if you want to read the facts :)

Answer 9

Almost every culture has a great "flood" story. The biblical flood is likely a story that was written based on other similar myths, or perhaps alludes to a local or regional flood of the time.

Answer 10

In the same way I believe the bible when it says the bat is a bird and that the earth not the sun is the center of our solar system.

Answer 11

I do.

The earth was much flatter then than it is now.

As the flood waters began to recede the higher mountains began to ascend, doing so while there was only Noah and his family and most of the earth was under water.

"With a watery deep just like a garment you covered it.
The waters were standing above the very mountains.
At your rebuke they began to flee;
At the sound of your thunder they were sent running in panic—
Mountains proceeded to ascend,
Valley plains proceeded to descend—
To the place that you have founded for them." - Psalm 104:6-8.

Prior to the Flood the earth was much flatter; it would take not as much water to cover the earth as it would today.