The Bible and the Great Flood (Noah’s Ark, Rainbows, Genesis, Faith)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Flood Narrative Is Only Talking About a Local Flood
The flood narrative is only talking about a local flood that occurred in the ancient nereast. A global flood would have been described ex actly the same way by an ancient near eastern author. The text of genesis is speaking from the perspective of a person living in the ancient near east. It's not assuming things that neither the audience nor his that neither the author nor his audience knew about.
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Transcript
Genesis records that God sent the Great Flood to wipe out mankind because of sinfulness, but that he preserved Noah, his family, and pairs of every animal in an ark. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the questions of whether Noah was a real person, was the flood worldwide, and more.
