“A Few Little Facts About the Genesis Flood”
Are the first 11 chapters of Genesis just grand narratives that are supposed only to impart spiritual truths and not be taken seriously as an account of real events in the past? As true believers, we hold fast to the truth that the Bible is the Word of God and the events recorded therein are real historical events and the people, real people who once walked the face of the earth. One of the stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis is the story of Noah, found in chapters six through nine. As we read these chapters, we would immediately see that the deluge that God had brought down upon the earth was worldwide. It destroyed every land-dwelling, air-breathing creatures that walked upon the face of the earth in order to judge its extremely-wicked inhabitants (Gen. 6:11-13). This story of a worldwide flood may have parallels in Babylonian and Greek mythologies, but the Biblical account is the original. Granted...