The Flood

[Mercy]

If the flood took place around the year 2358 b.c. (calculated using biblical geneologies) then how did the cultures of the ancient world exist contemporary to the event if it was world wide? Namely, Egyptian and Babylonian cultures.

I don't know the truth of the matter, it is honestly a question I have that I would like to have answered.

Either,

1. The flood was not universal so that these other cultures could continue to exist.

2. The flood took place further back in history and the geneolgies have gaps which cause us to place the date of the flood too recent in history.

3. The cultures did not actually exist at that time and should be moved forward in time to more recent dates.

Any thoughts on this?

[seekingtruth]

I believe it to be 3. As far as I know the scriptures are the best dating tool available, cultures may date well within their time frame but they have gaps and require syncing to other cultures (with limited information) to create a complete time-line.

Many reject the information available from scripture simply because it is scripture, prefering to fabricate their own through speculation which usually aligns to whatever they want it to be.

[TimothyVI]

I am just curious. If there is a statistician out there that could tell me if
it is mathematically possible for eight people to repopulate the earth with
about 7 billion people in approximately 4,500 years. You will have to guess at the average
life span during that time. I am not asking if 7 billion people could have been born in 4,500 years,
but if enough could have been born that 7 billion could still be alive.

It is not really important. It would just be an interesting little tidbit of information.

Tim

[NickHassan]

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[NickHassan]

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[NickHassan]

Hi colter,
So you are so deeply knowledgeable that you can extract myth from sacred scripture even though you were not there to prove these matters? Those admirers of scientific religion- which could be called the Society of Measurers perhaps- expound gravely about opinions which they cannot prove.

[NickHassan]

Hi colter,
What you cannot grasp must be wrong?
True religion has never been understood by the deep religionists.
Scripture has always been malleable in the hands of misguided religious hypocrites.

Jas 1

25But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

Liberty walks in the Spirit

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