The Flood
The Flood of Noah’s day (2348 BC) was a year-long global catastrophe that destroyed the pre-Flood world, reshaped the continents, buried billions of creatures, and laid down the rock layers. It was God’s judgment on man’s wickedness and only eight righteous people, and representatives of every kind of land animal, were spared aboard the Ark.
Noah’s Flood: a Historical, Global Catastrophe
Examining the immense biblical data for Noah’s flood as an actual, year-long, worldwide, and catastrophic flood about 4,500 years ago.
Was Noah’s Flood Global?
Did Noah experience a local flood which left only a few sediment layers, as floods do today? God’s record is clear: the water covered the entire globe and killed all the animals on earth. Such unique conditions are the only way to explain worldwide fossil-bearing layers thousands of feet deep.
Local Floods Help Us Understand Noah’s Flood Geology
Geologists repeatedly discover the catastrophic effects of local flooding on the earth’s surface, resulting in the same conclusion each time: that substantial amounts of water can have the same geological effect in a short period of time (even laying down rock layers) that hypothesized millions of years of slow water flow would have.
Noah Did More than Build an Ark
Like people today, almost certainly the people of Noah’s day were busy enjoying the pleasures of life and did not believe or care that judgment was coming. In 2 Peter 2:5, Noah is described as a “preacher of righteousness
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Psalm 104 and the Flood
Psalm 104:6–9 sheds important additional light on the geological effects of the Flood. “The mountains rose, the valleys sank down to the place which You established for them” (vs. 8).
The Flood Topics
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TechnicalThe Flood Accounts
It is important to compare the differences in these two flood accounts in order to examine their relationship.
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Technical Research PaperEvidence for a Late Cainozoic Flood/Post-Flood BoundaryApril 1, 1996, pp. 128–167
Geologic evidence of the Middle East and the globe, combined with Scripture, indicates that the Flood/post-Flood boundary is very late in the Cainozoic.
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Technical Research PaperCoal, Volcanism and Noah’s FloodApril 1, 1984, pp. 11–29
Applying the explosive pyroclastic volcanism model to the formation of coal deposits, it is entirely feasible that all the coal seams were formed by the conditions during Noah's Flood.
Articles About The Flood
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TechnicalThe Flood Accounts
It is important to compare the differences in these two flood accounts in order to examine their relationship.
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Technical Research PaperEvidence for a Late Cainozoic Flood/Post-Flood BoundaryApril 1, 1996, pp. 128–167
Geologic evidence of the Middle East and the globe, combined with Scripture, indicates that the Flood/post-Flood boundary is very late in the Cainozoic.
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Technical Research PaperCoal, Volcanism and Noah’s FloodApril 1, 1984, pp. 11–29
Applying the explosive pyroclastic volcanism model to the formation of coal deposits, it is entirely feasible that all the coal seams were formed by the conditions during Noah's Flood.
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