You think Noah's flood was a regional flood?

Question

Perhaps covering all the earth was simply covering everything that they perceived around them, hence being the entire earth?

Does it have to be litterally the entire planet?

What's your take on this?

Please, no bashing or preaching. Just answer the question. ;-)

Answer 1

Spaced, you make a good point. They would not have been aware of more than a small portion of earth. However, of all the Biblical stories, the flood is actually the easiest to believe could be factual simply because of where we are in time and space.

We are looking at a massive worldwide flood as a result of global warming. Should there be major melting of our polar ice caps, the likelihood is that most land would be covered.

Answer 2

Excuse me, I had to go to the bathroom until I stopped laughing. Come on atheists and Bible thumpers alike...you all made claims of this or that in the past and NO ONE provided documentation while railing at the other for not providing it.

It would be a worldwide flood, even if SOME mountain tops were not covered, they could not have sustained all animal life. Or it would seem worldwide to the people of the time since they were on earth a bit before television and satellites. The Bible was written thousands of years later, so I doubt it was just chance that supported the story.

Scientists cannot prove it did not happen anymore than Bible scholars can prove it did. 49 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot during an arguement...I think the same goes for these type of questions.

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Answer 3

May Peace Mercy and Blessings of Allah(swt) be on all of you.

As you have not specifically mentioned if you want to know the Biblic virsion of the Noah(pbuh) and the flood or the Qur'anic virsion so i have mentioned both.you can decide for your self which one is more accurate.

NOAH (PBUH) AND THE FLOOD:

The Biblical description of the flood in Genesis chapter 6, 7 and 8 indicates that the deluge was universal and it destroyed every living thing on earth, except those present with Noah (pbuh) in the ark.
The description suggests that the event took place 1656 years after the creation of Adam (pbuh) or 292 years before the birth of Abraham, at a time when Noah (pbuh) was 600 years old.
Thus the flood may have occurred in the 21st or 22nd Century B.C.

This story of the flood, as given in the Bible, contradicts scientific evidence from archaelogical sources which indicate that the eleventh dynasty in Egypt and the third dynasty in Babylonia were in existence without any break in civilisation and in a manner totally unaffected by any major calamity which may have occurred in the 21st century B.C.
This contradicts the Biblical story that the whole world had been immersed in the flood water.

In contrast to this, the Qur’anic presentation of the story of Noah and the flood does not conflict with scientific evidence or archaeological data;
firstly, the Qur’an does not indicate any specific date or year of the occurance of that event,
and secondly, according to the Qur’an the flood was not a universal phenomenon which destroyed complete life on earth. In fact the Qur’an specifically mentions that the flood was a localised event only involving the people of Noah.

It is illogical to assume that Prophet Muhummad (pbuh) had borrowed the story of the flood from the Bible and corrected the mistakes before mentioning it in the Qur’an as many Christian brothers and sisters claim.

May Peace Mercy and Blessings of Allah(swt) be on all of you.

Answer 4

Just because there is a flood doesn't mean a supernatural force did it. That's what every culture does. It's a thunderstorm Zeus must be having fun. Maybe he's mad. You can tell the who the self centered ones are. "They are just coping us". Grow up! They are just using their own way to rationalize why a great flood would happen just like you. You can't rationalize with reality so you use fiction it must be a monster under my bed.

When you think about it water fills up all the craters in the earth. How is there more water to spontaneously come from no where? Rain doesn't distribute itself so evenly which is why we have floods in a concentrated area but, the whole earth no way not enough water.

Answer 5

When one examines the biblical passages, it is clear that the flood was global. Genesis 7:11 states that "all of the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." It is apparent from Genesis 1:6-7 and 2:6 that the pre-flood environment was much different from that which we experience today. Based on these and other biblical descriptions, as well as the fossil record and present geological findings, it is reasonably speculated that at one time the earth was covered by some kind of water canopy. This canopy could have been a vapor canopy or could have consisted of rings, somewhat like Saturn's ice rings. This, in combination with a major layer of water underground, both being released upon the land (Genesis 2:6) would have resulted in a global flood.

The clearest verses that show the extent of the flood are Genesis 7:19-23: "And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things which were on the face of the ground: both man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained alive."

In the above passage we not only find the word "all" being used repeatedly, but we also find phrases such as "and all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered," "the waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered" (enough to allow the ark to pass over them safely), and "all flesh died that moved on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man," etc. If these descriptions are not meant to describe a universal flood covering the whole earth, I don't know how God could have made it clearer. Also, if the flood was only localized, why did God instruct Noah to build an ark instead of merely causing the animals to migrate and telling Noah to do the same? And why did He instruct Noah to build an ark large enough to house all of the different kinds of land animals found on the earth today. One might note that even dinosaurs start out small, and it would not have been necessary for Noah to have brought fully grown animals onto the ark.

God did instruct Noah to put two of every land animal (aquatic wildlife was excluded) onto the ark (Genesis 6:19-22) with the exception of ceremonial clean animals and for all birds, of which he was to have seven of each kind on the ark (Genesis 7:2-3).

Peter also describes the universality of the flood in 2 Peter 3:6-7 in which he states: "by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men." In these verses Peter compares the "universal" coming judgment to the flood of Noah's time and states that the world that then existed was flooded with water. Also, God’s promise (Genesis 8:21; 9:11, 15) never again to send such a flood has been broken repeatedly if it were only a local flood. Further, all men in the world today are said to have descended from Noah’s three sons (Genesis 9:1, 19) and many later Biblical writers accepted the historicity of the worldwide Flood (Isaiah 54:9; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5; Hebrews 11:7). Lastly, the Lord Jesus Christ believed in the universal Flood and took it as the type of the coming destruction of the world when He returns (Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26, 27).

Answer 6

Regional. Look back to the early '90's and the flooding of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, there was a huge area under water for a very long time. It stands to reason that a regional flood is the basis for the story of Noah. In the midst of rapidly rising waters it really does seem as if your entire world is ending. And when your entire world encompasses the very small area in which you live, it would seem to be a catastrophe of global proportions.

Answer 7

The so-called 'universal' flood of popular rhetoric differs significantly in meaning from the 'global' Flood of Holy Scripture.


Allow me to quote extensively from Vol.21(3) of the June-August 1999 issue of 'Creation' magazine, p.49/note 3:"Some 'progressive creationists' [e.g., Hugh Ross of "Reasons to Believe"], who cannot accept a global Flood because of their commitment to millions of years for the ages of fossils, try to promote belief in a 'universal' Flood. This leads many unsuspecting evangelicals to think they believe in a worldwide Flood, but what they mean by this is that even though it was a local [italicized in original] flood, all humanity outside of the Ark perished in it. However, it boggles the mind to believe that after all those centuries, no-one would have migrated to other parts. Or that people living on the periphery of such a local Flood would not have moved to the adjoining high ground rather than be drowned."

Questions raised by the above article in opposition to a local 'universal' Flood include the following:

(1) If the Flood was local, why did Noah have to build an Ark?


(2) If the Flood was local, why did God send the animals to the Ark so they would escape death?

(3) If the Flood was local, why was the Ark big enough to hold all kinds of land vertebrate animals that have ever existed?


(4) If the Flood was local, why would birds have been sent on board?


(5) If the Flood was local, people who did not happen to be living in the vicinity would not be affected by it.


(6) If the Flood was local, God would have repeatedly broken His promise never to send such a flood again.

Finally, the worldwide, Earth-covering, global Flood did destroy all terrestrial, air-breathing creatures (not only all mankind), with the exception of those on the Ark, in addition to the whole Earth itself (Gen. 6:3, 6-7,11-13, 17/ 7:21-23/ 1 Pet. 3:20/ 2 Pet. 3:6). The purpose of the Ark was to preserve the genetic information of the original created kinds in order to re-populate the post-Flood world (Gen. 6:19-20/ 7:3/ 8:16-19/9:1). The Ark, of course, would only serve this divine purpose if the judgment on sin was worldwide/global, not local/'universal' as some compromising Christians believe.

Answer 8

Scientists say there is no geological evidence of a world flood, and there is not enough water to submerge all land. Some say there were world floods I see, but they are mistaken. Where do they get such naive ideas? There were many floods of the Euphrates River, and the tale of Utnapishtam was inspired by one or more of them. Hebrews, Greeks, etc. copied the Sumerian tale that came first.

Answer 9

round 6,000BC, the Black Sea became 2-thirds the length that is now. What we today understand because the Dardanelles Strait, dividing Turkey from Europe and connecting the Medditerranean to the Black Sea, became then a land-bridge. The Med and the Black Sea were seperate bodies of water. there became a cataclysm or disaster that broke down that land bridge, opened the Dardenelles, and allowed the Meditteranean to spill into the Black Sea. even as the water degrees settled down, the Black Sea became its modern-day length. all of us understand this because of the geological and archaeological record - there became certainly a vast, vast, flood in that position 8,000 years in the past. continues to be of human settlements were found on the sea mattress as a lot as one hundred miles out interior the Black Sea, telling us this became a a lot smaller body of water interior geologically modern-day cases. the Black Sea borders each of the commonplace civilisations of antiquity - that is tremendously a lot imperative. An experience like this flood might want to were so negative and so irritating that it would want to have entered the mythology and folklore of each human beings it touched - and is the reason the conventional nature of the Flood fantasy. that is a real certainly experience, imperfectly remembered. Hell's Bells, the Greeks have were given 3 seperate flood myths, (although 2 might want to be defined by technique of the volcanic explosion and tsunami at Santorini that took out Minoa. it truly is the position we get the Atlantis tale from, by the way). between the peoples living interior miraculous distance of the Black Sea flood might want to were the forefathers of the Jews. for sure that that they had seem after a version. yet this became a localised flood on the grand scale. Noah may were a farmer with get entry to to a deliver who became in a position to rescue his prompt relations and some animals and later retelling has bulked it out into the flood fantasy preserved interior the Bible. As for the Ark ending up on a mountain right... in basic terms embelllishment. After this lengthy, the woodworm might want to have had it? besides, the total Ararat concern has been shrouded in secret for see you later - the position is clearly inaccessible, so that you may besides ask how he were given all those animals down from there. And it became on a closed border between Turkey and the U.S., so no individual might want to get there and seem. it will be useful to deliver an outing to bathe it up once and for all and definitively say there's no longer something there.

Answer 10

That's a very interesting concept but no. Such a cataclysm as the Deluge, which washed the whole world of that time out of existence, would never be forgotten by the survivors. They would talk about it to their children and their children’s children. For 500 years after the Deluge, Shem lived on to relate the event to many generations. He died only ten years before the birth of Jacob. Moses preserved the true account in Genesis. Sometime after the Flood, when God-defying people built the Tower of Babel, Jehovah confused their language and scattered them “over all the surface of the earth.” (Genesis 11:9) It was only natural that these people took with them stories of the Flood and passed them on from father to son. The fact that there are not merely a few but perhaps hundreds of different stories about that great Deluge, and that such stories are found among the traditions of many primitive races the world over, is a strong proof that all these people had a common origin and that their early forefathers shared that Flood experience in common.
These folklore accounts of the Deluge agree with some major features of the Biblical account: (1) a place of refuge for a few survivors, (2) an otherwise global destruction of life by water, and (3) a seed of mankind preserved. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Druids of Britain, the Polynesians, the Eskimos and Greenlanders, the Africans, the Hindus, and the American Indians—all of these have their Flood stories. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Vol. 2, p. 319) states: “Flood stories have been discovered among nearly all nations and tribes. Though most common on the Asian mainland and the islands immediately south of it and on the North American continent, they have been found on all the continents. Totals of the number of stories known run as high as about 270 . . . The universality of the flood accounts is usually taken as evidence for the universal destruction of humanity by a flood and the spread of the human race from one locale and even from one family. Though the traditions may not all refer to the same flood, apparently the vast majority do. The assertion that many of these flood stories came from contacts with missionaries will not stand up because most of them were gathered by anthropologists not interested in vindicating the Bible, and they are filled with fanciful and pagan elements evidently the result of transmission for extended periods of time in a pagan society. Moreover, some of the ancient accounts were written by people very much in opposition to the Hebrew-Christian tradition.”—Edited by G. Bromiley, 1982.
In times past, certain primitive people (in Australia, Egypt, Fiji, Society Islands, Peru, Mexico, and other places) preserved a possible remnant of these traditions about the Flood by observing in November a ‘Feast of Ancestors’ or a ‘Festival of the Dead.’ Such customs reflected a memory of the destruction caused by the Deluge. According to the book Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, the festival in Mexico was held on the 17th of November because they “had a tradition that at that time the world had been previously destroyed; and they dreaded lest a similar catastrophe would, at the end of a cycle, annihilate the human race.” (By Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, Edinburgh, 1867, Vol. II, pp. 390, 391) Notes the book The Worship of the Dead: “This festival [of the dead] is . . . held by all on or about the very day on which, according to the Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth day of the second month—the month nearly corresponding with our November.” (By J. Garnier, London, 1904, p. 4) Interestingly, the Bible reports that the Flood began “in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month.” (Genesis 7:11) That “second month” corresponds to the latter part of October and the first part of November on our calendar.