Two questions on the flood

[Burrawang]

@mitchellmckain

@Burrawang

Do you really believe that God would have had Noah and his sons build the enormous Ark by applying an almost unimaginable amount of hard manual work if the flood was only local?

There are around 6 million species of land animals. The only arc they could possibly have made is one which would handle the animals for a local flood. Even a modern ship of steel wouldn’t be enough for what you suggest.

Hi Mitchell,

thanks for your thoughts.

I have no idea how many animal species existed when the Global Flood destroyed the pre flood world and reshaped the single land mass to what we see today, but I accept the Bible in faith as written; the Bible tells us that God brought all the land animals in whose nostrils was the breath of life, and that is good enough for me.

Ultimately it greatly depends upon what God classified as different animals.

It seems reasonable to me that what God classifies as a kind is broader than what we classify as a species today, thus the number of animals that God brought to Noah would have been less than the number of the man-made classification ‘species’ that we use today.

@mitchellmckain

@Burrawang

on one hand we have **God promising He will NEVER again send a FLOOD to DESTROY ALL FLESH,**and on the other hand (if what you say is true and the Flood was only LOCAL), why we STILL OBSERVE LOCAL FLOODS regularly all over the Earth today?

Because the promise was about God not sending a flood to save humanity by destroying human civilization mired in corruption so it could start again, not about never allowing any natural floods let alone about destroying all life throughout the universe. God didn’t think we were worth the price as it was, let alone the price of doing so when human civilization had spread over the whole globe.

Again, the disparate worldviews that we each hold to, influence how we interpret this.

There have been countless floods that have killed millions of people over the past four thousand years, since the Flood of Noah, therefore, if the Flood of Noah’s day was merely a local flood,
1.) then why did God say the purpose of the Flood was to destroy all flesh, if there were people alive elsewhere that weren’t affected by the Flood?
2.) then why did He say He would never again send a Flood to destroy all flesh?

Surely you can see that 1 & 2 above make it clear the Flood was universal over the whole earth (Earth) and destroyed all life as the Holy Bible plainly tells us.

God bless,
jon