Flood
We don’t know how much of the world was covered by the waters |
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one of his messages at his evangelistic crusade in |
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Confutation |
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According
to the Holy Scriptures, the flood which occurred in the days of Noah was
universal and not local, for it is written: “Now the flood was on the earth
forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it rose high above the earth. The waters prevailed and
greatly increased on the earth, and the ark moved about on the surface of the
waters. And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth, and all the high
hills under the whole heaven were covered. The waters prevailed fifteen
cubits upward, and the mountains were covered. And all flesh died that moved
on the earth: birds and cattle and beasts and every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth, and every man. All in whose nostrils was the breath of
the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all
living things which were on the face of the ground: both
man and cattle, creeping thing and bird of the air. They were
destroyed from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark
remained alive” (Genesis |
Furthermore,
we deduce that the flood was universal from the fact that God said to Noah:
“And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort
into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. Of
the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping
thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep
them alive” (Genesis |
In
addition to this, we deduce that the flood of Noah’s days was a worldwide
flood from the fact that Jesus likened the day on which the Son of Man will
be revealed to the day on which Noah entered the ark and the flood came.
Listen to His words: “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also
in the days of the Son of Man: they ate, they drank, they married wives, they
were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the
flood came and destroyed them all …. Even so will it be in the day when the
Son of Man is revealed” (Luke |