Thank you Troy,
you are absolutely correct from my understanding of the Old Testament,
Yes, ultimately it is ALL about Jesus and pointing to His coming in the prophetic Scriptures.
However, I do find it puzzling that it appears some are somehow hanging a whole belief that the flood was only a localised flood and not a “flood that covered all the land under heaven”,
What is it about Genesis 6:17 that you believe is unclear?
“I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish.”
What is it about Genesis 7:19 that you believe is unclear?
“They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.”
If the author is in fact Moses, why is it that some here on this website presuppose that God did not inform Noah directly about clean and unclean animals, after all, as the writer of Genesis reliably informs us, God commanded Noah to bring on board two of every ‘kind’, a male and a female, and by sevens of every kind of clean animal.
I accept Genesis 7:2 as accurate, where it clearly states:
2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,
The Writer of Genesis is faithfully recording what happened, just as he recorded everything else, and I would expect very likely directly guided by God. Why do some on this site doubt the Holy Scriptures and replace what is trustworthy and true with what can only be described as a conjecture of man.
Who caused you to doubt the Scriptures and question the validity of what God has guided to be so reliably written?
But Troy, that is such a misrepresentation of the reality.
No-one is suggesting that “genesis was written to the scientific enlightened westerner”, that is false and misleading in the extreme, though I hear it repeated on this site far too many times!
As faithfully written above, it is THE BIBLE itself that informs us that the flood covered the whole Earth, that is ALL the land under Heaven. That only leaves the oceans if all the land is covered.
Thus whether you think the Earth is a flat disk with a dome over it or as Isaiah knew 40:22, “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth.”
(For more clarification see: Isaiah 40-22 circle sphere
it makes no difference, as the Bible clearly states that ALL the land was covered by the flood, therefore it is a logical deduction that the flood was GLOBAL.
To deduce that the flood was indeed GLOBAL is not putting any spin on the text whatsoever, that it was written for a scientific enlightened westerner, it is merely stating what the Bible so clearly teaches us all!
Yes, I absolutely agree, PRAISE THE LORD! HALLELUJAH!!! HE’S MY LORD. JESUS IS THE LORD, OUR REDEEMER, OUR SAVIOUR!
I am unclear Troy about what it is you are asking. i don’t think anyone I know, nor myself, would be judging you about anything. There but by the grace of God go I.
Yes, you are absolutely correct!
It is Jesus that matters, ALL things were made by Him for Him.
The evidence that is clearly present in the rocks and fossils is useful for the unbelievers, those whom God has His hand upon, whom He is drawing near to Him, that He uses us here on Earth to give our testimony and proclaim the Salvation of the Gospel of our Lord.
The sedimentary rocks and fossils are merely useful at times in opening up those conversations with the many lost of this present world.
God bless,
jon