The Biblical Flood Account

Updated with Current News (at bottom)

Nothing causes a skeptic to laugh at Christians more than the Flood of Genesis. The laughter is louder than garnered by the Creation Account. If you've been reading my site, you'll know the Creation Account is not what Christians think, and that God has a very purposeful and natural way of doing things that seem to be continually reinforced by science.

The Flood is glossed over by Christians as one of those quaint Bible "myths" that is taken as a matter of faith rather than reality. Christians seem to have an ambivalent view of the Flood and take a position of avoidance when it comes to the topic. But why? Well, because of ignorance. I have no definite answers here, but I have a bit of anecdotal and research evidence that points clearly to a Flood and even answers some questions that paleontologists can't seem to answer.

Let's start with the Genesis Chapter 6 account. "And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown." Also verses 12-14: "And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch." So God is pretty pissed that the demons have mated with women and produced freakish offspring (giants, mighty men) and He decides to wipe the slate.

The ark in verses 14-15 is to be: "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits." Did you know that naval engineers consider that 6-to-1 length-width ratio to be very seaworth? God knows what He's doing.

Then comes the Flood of Chapter 7:10-12: "And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth. In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." Interesting words in there that God uses, huh? Christians get the glazed-eye syndrome here accompanied by robotic nodding (sigh). Basically from there, the highest mountain is topped over at a depth of about twenty-three feet.

The skeptics are all the same: "No way in hell, you're stupid to believe it; where did all that water go?" At the same time, their self-inflated heads are busy wagging in derision. I've seen it all. The answer is easy. The continents were once much larger than they are now as evidenced by the undeniable streams and rivers that flow through channels far beneath the surface of the ocean. Which means that the oceans have risen a couplel hundred feet in a short time. That sea level was once much lower than it is today is fact and not one legitimate scientist disputes that. Note the discussion HERE and HERE and over HERE where the sea level was over three hundred feet lower than today. Where did the water go? Not only in raising the sea level, but in creating huge underground water tables.

The better question that is rarely raised is "where did all that water come from?" Ahhh, now we get a really good question. God has an answer, but I guarantee that Christians don't know it. Well, most Christians. We have to go all the way back to the most eye-glazing Biblical passages that Christians love to just skim over as if they were the most unimportant filler passages to be read on the way to verses that start with: The LORD saith... Quick flashback to an eye-glazing passage: Remember my quote above about the flood? "...And the windows of heaven were opened." Remember? No? Can't I keep your attention long enough for something so important? The flood was not a fable or myth or parable concocted by God to tell a story. Get that silly crap out of your mind. The FLOOD is a literal account, backed up traditionally by non-Christian tradition all over the world. Just because self-proclaimed elite scientists can't answer the questions does not mean the Flood didn't happen.

Uh oh, I digress to tease.... When I was a hermit in 1980s Montana, up in the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, I had determined to build a partially dug-in log cabin. If you know your geography, you know that Montana's mountains are in the Rocky Mountain chain. Well, let me tell you, if anyone ever asks if there's rocks in the Rockies... I couldn't take a single shovel-full of anything without hitting a frickin' rock. And not just little rocks, but BIG frickin' rocks, okay? Anyway, on my twenty acres of pristine land at the 5700 elevation above sea level, there was this ridge of ROCK that was exposed (frickin' rock) and several dozen layers of strata could be seen. At a depth of about eleven feet, there was this five inch deep strata of gritty dirt mixed with SEASHELL. Almost 6000 feet above sea level, I am digging out SEASHELLS. If you doubt me, come on up to Montana, and I'll hold your hand to show you those exact seashells.

Okay, back to that question about where the water came from. We have to go way back in scripture, remember? Don't fall asleep, now, these passages are very important. Go allll the waaaay back to Genesis.... ONE, BABY! Yep, Genesis Chapter 1. The answer is there. Get back here and pay attention. Genesis 1:2 says: "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." The face of the deep? The face of the waters? Might that be TWO separate bodies of water? No, I don't just think so, I know so. Follow along. Remember though that the dark was on the deep and God on the face. It'll become clear in a moment.

If you've read my other ramblings, you should know by now that I could care less about what people think of me - and that includes other Christians. God is my witness; no one else matters. So, my response is: "Too bad, I quoted them. Deal with it." Here's where it goes; there were indeed two bodies of water, one as the sea, and one as an atmospheric layer. Back up a few sentences in my discussion here to the mention of the "faces" of the waters. Darkness was on the face of the deep (the sea) below. Why? Because there was smoke and ash and all sorts of destructive crap that God had thrown around during His destruction (if you read my CREATION discussion). Further, God was on the face of the waters above. The waters above were separated from the waters below and the space in between was called the firmament. The Hebrew word for firmament is raqiyah`. It means: extended surface (solid), expanse, firmament, expanse (flat as base, support), firmament (of vault of heaven supporting waters above) considered by Hebrews as solid and supporting 'waters' above .

I want to take a moment to point out something very important about this "firmament." Don't shake your heads and don't discard what I'm saying here without reading everything first. God said what He said. Don't run off and believe some egg-head scientist who scoffs but can't provide any answers. God inspired the scriptures to say these things for a reason. Okay, note that the darkness was on the face of the deep. Why? Destruction and the fact that there were waters above that would obviously block the sun. VERY IMPORTANT! Note the following: there is not a single mention of SUN (Hebrew word shemesh) until after the Flood account. Why? Because no one could see the sun! The very first use of the word "sun" is in Genesis 15. Note how perfect God's word flows here. He inspired these words for a reason. Not to put you asleep! In Genesis we read about the "creation" of the sun, but the word used there is the Hebrew word owr' which means "light of day." NOWHERE is the sun mentioned until AFTER the flood. Knowing the debilitating effects of the sun's radiation, is it any wonder that man went from living hundreds of years to just a hundred? Before the flood, man was shielded. After the flood, we started dying a lot faster. Note the ages in the Old Testament. The Bible doesn't say why all these people started living fewer years, but can we not realize how destructive and deadly the sun is and provide our own answer?

There were waters above, and God opened the windows of heaven (broke the firmament) and flooded the earth.

There's a very interesting fact about dinosaurs that many paleontologists struggle with but can't seem to find any logical answers on. The Bible answers them, but they'll never accept it. Genesis 2:6 talks about the atmospheric condition of the earth at that time: "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." The atmospheric pressure was so high that water hung suspended in a mist. All that water up there had to have created a substantially higher air pressure than what we know today.

Note these very interesting fits that paleontologists throw about how impossible the dinosaurs were; HERE and HERE. Those scientists that don't ignore dinosaur size fret about how impossible it is for them to have existed at all. They mutter about how the heart would have to weigh a third of a ton, how dinos with 38 foot necks would have had to drag them on the ground, how these built-for-speed dinosaurs could barely lift their legs and might only have stumbled along at 4 miles per hour. They wring their hands for not having answers as to how the dinosuars would have needed a blood pressure 5 to 6 times that of man. Pretty much impossible... unless.... Unless the atmospheric pressure was much higher back then than it is today.

This site HERE admits atmospheric pressures were at least 25% higher than today. That's a huge difference. Rather it makes a huge difference in what those dinosaurs required to exist. Smaller hearts, lower blood pressures, higher speeds. That 25% is an educated guess, but might it have been higher considering the firmament? If so, those dinosaurs would have been able to raise their "impossible" necks to eat.

But, without the higher pressure of the firmament, those dinosaurs are technically impossible, or only massive, lumbering beasts that could barely move or lift their heads to eat. Atheist science is just not making any sense, here. But GOD makes sense, and explains the dinosaurs. God's description restores the speed to those massive animals, makes them able to circulate their blood, and allows them to lift their heads to eat.

Another interesting teaser to go along with my seashells at almost 6000 feet: did you know there is salt water erosion on the sphinx of Egypt as if it had been submerged once?

The Flood account is real, not a fable. Science will one day prove it.

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UPDATE

If you checked my links above about how impossible it was for the large dinosaurs to exist, then you'll love the latest news. Rueters on September 9, 2005 posted the following article:

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The giant reptiles that flew above the earth until about 65 million years ago could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans of at least 18 metres, a paleontologist said on Thursday.

That would be almost the same width as the 64 foot fully extended wingspan of an F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft and roughly five times bigger than an albatross, which ranks among the birds with the largest wingspans in the modern world.

Dr David Martill of the University of Portsmouth in southern England, said his research on pterosaur wings appeared to solve the problem of how such enormous creatures managed to take to the skies and stay there.

If scientists were doubting how a flying dinosaur with a 30 foot wingspan could even get in the air, much less stay there, how much more confused must they be now having to contend with flying dinos that had 60 foot wingspans! The evidence has, in fact, exponentially increased for the argument of an atmosphere that was much, much more pressurized than today. Doubling size and mass means much more than double the blood pressure and heart mass. Literally, these dinosaurs are completely and totally impossible, by today's standards. Even more argument in favor of all the pressure a firmament with water above could provide. God isn't stupid.

I'm sure that science will continue to uncover evidence that confirms the heretofor thought myths of the Bible.