Can a Christian believe in Noahs flood not being Universal?
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I hate to admit this but I think yes to the question. But BIG YEAH PEOPLE STILL ARE SAVED IF THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN THE UNIVERSAL FLOOD!!! I have been saved since 1991 and I use to believe in the gap theory, growing in G-d and knowledge of Scripture over these years have convinced me of literal creation. But to be Saved we have to believe in and have faith in Messiah as the ONY WAY, TRUTH and LIFE and our sin against G-d.... Not all of Scripture... that comes in time, growing in Him. But the flood was universal!
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God, Who shows no favoritism, gave Jezabel time to repent. God gives us time to grow and learn. I have learned and changed my mind about somethings that scriptures have revealed to me. I do not think that God holds it against us during the allowed time period. But if we reach the end of our time here, and still refuse to believe what God says in His Word, then in that case yeah, we're in danger of hell fire. Because God counts disbelief the same as disobedience.
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Yes, all Christians visit sin, but no Christian lives in sin, otherwise they would no longer be Christian but worldly. I have a brother who lives with the belief that Paul was not a true apostle of Christ, and therefore anything he wrote is not true scripture- which is most if the new testament- that he feels he need not follow. To make this error in judgement is one thing, but to constantly live with the stance that most of God's new testament word to us is a lie is to deny God Himself.
Not likely. However theological liberals (who may or may not be saved) believe in evolution, no universal Flood, no miracles, no supernatural, etc.
If a person cannot believe that Noah's Flood was worldwide, why should he or she believe the Gospel? After all it is the same written record from Genesis to Revelation. The Gospel is as much beyond human reason as anything else that is supernatural.
If a person cannot believe that Noah's Flood was worldwide, why should he or she believe the Gospel? After all it is the same written record from Genesis to Revelation. The Gospel is as much beyond human reason as anything else that is supernatural.
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The world at some point looked very different with the continents joined together.
The earths land masses do look like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
So it’s nor far fetched to believe in the universal flood.
Ignoring the bit about billions of years, this gives some idea.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2013/jun/09/supercontinent-world-moving-together
The earths land masses do look like a giant jigsaw puzzle.
So it’s nor far fetched to believe in the universal flood.
Ignoring the bit about billions of years, this gives some idea.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2013/jun/09/supercontinent-world-moving-together
I personally don't believe the flood was world-wide in scope. Often, when the bible says "all the earth", its doesn't mean global, but is referring to a specific area affected by what's being described. The deluge was huge, but imo limited to the wickedness which infected the descendants of Adam, it was all the land they occupied that flooded. Therefore, Noah did not take 2 of every species on earth, but only those animals indigenous to his area.
http://www.orange-street-church.org/text/noah-flood.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/DeafPreterist/noah.html
http://www.depodio.com/noah.htm
http://www.orange-street-church.org/text/noah-flood.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/DeafPreterist/noah.html
http://www.depodio.com/noah.htm
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You forgot the Higher Critics, who dismissed everything in the OT as legendary, mythical, fables, and nonsense. They attacked the Bible at every opportunity, and they dismissed the supernatural as a view held by primitives. They claimed that Moses did not write the first five books of the Bible (the Torah) and talked about redactors (editors) and how there were different scribes who wrote different parts of the Torah.
Their influence filtered down into the mainline denominational churches, and they became theologically liberal. Now they are all apostate. But the Bible is still true.
"For over a century, the standard view among “higher critics” has been that the Genesis Flood account was written long after Moses by a Jewish priest who revised an older Babylonian myth. This myth, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was found on several broken clay tablets in the Assyrian city of Nineveh in 1853... Unknown to most archaeologists, however, is an even earlier Flood tablet. It was discovered in the ancient Babylonian city of Nippur in the 1890s... Hilprecht’s translation reads as follows, with damaged sections reconstructed by Fritz Hommel and unreadable portions of the text noted:
The springs of the deep will I open. A flood will I send which will affect all of mankind at once. But seek thou deliverance before the flood breaks forth, for over all living beings, however many there are, will I bring annihilation, destruction, ruin. Take wood and pitch and build a large ship!….cubits be its complete height…. a houseboat shall it be, containing those who preserve their life….with a strong roofing cover it…. the ship which thou makest, take into it….the animals of the field, the birds of the air and the reptiles, two of each, instead of (their whole number)….and the family of the….1
This clear text stands as both a confirmation of Scripture and a condemnation of liberal “scholarship.” It so clearly undermines the “critical” view that it never sees the light of day..."
https://apologiaway1.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-nippur-tablet-and-the-flood-story/
Their influence filtered down into the mainline denominational churches, and they became theologically liberal. Now they are all apostate. But the Bible is still true.
"For over a century, the standard view among “higher critics” has been that the Genesis Flood account was written long after Moses by a Jewish priest who revised an older Babylonian myth. This myth, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was found on several broken clay tablets in the Assyrian city of Nineveh in 1853... Unknown to most archaeologists, however, is an even earlier Flood tablet. It was discovered in the ancient Babylonian city of Nippur in the 1890s... Hilprecht’s translation reads as follows, with damaged sections reconstructed by Fritz Hommel and unreadable portions of the text noted:
The springs of the deep will I open. A flood will I send which will affect all of mankind at once. But seek thou deliverance before the flood breaks forth, for over all living beings, however many there are, will I bring annihilation, destruction, ruin. Take wood and pitch and build a large ship!….cubits be its complete height…. a houseboat shall it be, containing those who preserve their life….with a strong roofing cover it…. the ship which thou makest, take into it….the animals of the field, the birds of the air and the reptiles, two of each, instead of (their whole number)….and the family of the….1
This clear text stands as both a confirmation of Scripture and a condemnation of liberal “scholarship.” It so clearly undermines the “critical” view that it never sees the light of day..."
https://apologiaway1.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/the-nippur-tablet-and-the-flood-story/
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If the bible errs on the flood, then what else did it err on? You can't pick and choose what you accept from the bible. It has to stand as totally reliable or totally unreliable. If unreliable maybe it got salvation wrong. Making the bible unreliable in one part can only lead to skepticism in EVERY part. It is 100% reliable.
And besides, sea fossils have been found in the Grand Canyon.
And besides, sea fossils have been found in the Grand Canyon.
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