The Universal, Global Flood
(Genesis 6:1 [KJV])
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on
the face of the earth, and daughters were born
unto them,
(Genesis 6:2 [KJV])
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of
all which they chose.
(Genesis 6:5 [KJV])
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in
the earth, and that every
imagination of
the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
(Genesis 6:7 [KJV])
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created
from the face of the earth; both man,
and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air;
for it repenteth me that I have made
them.
(Genesis 6:11 [KJV])
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the
earth was filled with violence.
(Genesis 6:12 [KJV])
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt; all flesh had corrupted his way upon
the earth.
(Genesis 6:13 [KJV])
The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with
violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
(Genesis 6:17 [KJV])
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the
earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the
breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the
earth shall die.
(Genesis 6:19 [KJV])
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of
every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them
alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
(Genesis 6:20 [KJV])
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every
creeping thing of the earth after his
kind, two of every sort shall
come unto thee, to keep them alive.
(Genesis 6:21 [KJV])
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten,
and thou shalt gather it to thee; and
it
shall be for
food for thee, and for them.
Chapter 7
(Genesis 7:2 [KJV])
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens,
the male and his female: and of beasts that
are not clean by
two, the male and his female.
(Genesis 7:3 [KJV])
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female;
to
keep seed alive upon the face of all
the earth.
(Genesis 7:4 [KJV])
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the
earth forty days and forty nights; and every
living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face
of the earth.
(Genesis 7:8 [KJV])
Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth
upon the earth,
(Genesis 7:10 [KJV])
And it came to pass after seven days, that the
waters of the flood were upon the earth.
(Genesis 7:11 [KJV])
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second
month, the seventeenth day of the month, the
same day were all the fountains of the great deep
broken up, and the windows of heaven were
opened.
(Genesis 7:12 [KJV])
And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
(Genesis 7:14 [KJV])
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the
cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after
his kind, every bird of every sort.
(Genesis 7:15 [KJV])
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two
and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
(Genesis 7:16 [KJV])
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh,
as God had commanded him: and the
LORD shut him in.
(Genesis 7:17 [KJV])
And the flood was forty days upon the earth;
and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it
was lift up above the earth.
(Genesis 7:18 [KJV])
And the waters prevailed, and were increased
greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters.
(Genesis 7:19 [KJV])
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the
high hills, that were under the
whole heaven, were covered.
(Genesis 7:20 [KJV])
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and
the mountains were covered.
(Genesis 7:21 [KJV])
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of
cattle, and of beast, and of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
(Genesis 7:22 [KJV])
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the
dry land, died.
(Genesis 7:23 [KJV])
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of
the ground, both man, and
cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and
they were destroyed from the
earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in
the ark.
(Genesis 7:24 [KJV])
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Chapter 8
(Genesis 8:2 [KJV])
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven
were stopped, and the rain from heaven
was restrained;
(Genesis 8:3 [KJV])
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after
the end of the hundred and fifty
days the waters were abated.
(Genesis 8:5 [KJV])
And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the
tenth month, on the first day of
the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
(Genesis 8:9 [KJV])
But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and
she returned unto him into the ark, for the
waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put
forth his hand, and took her, and pulled
her in unto him into
the ark.
(Genesis 8:17 [KJV])
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of
all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle,
and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they
may breed abundantly in the
earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
(Genesis 8:19 [KJV])
Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and
whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
(Genesis 8:21 [KJV])
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in
his heart, I will not again curse the
ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's
heart is evil from his youth; neither
will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Chapter 9
(Genesis 9:11-15 [KJV])
And I will establish
my covenant with you; neither shall
all flesh be cut off any more by the waters
of a flood; neither
shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said,
This is the
token of the covenant which I make between me and
you and every living creature that is with
you, for perpetual generations:
I do set my bow in
the cloud, and it shall be for a token
of a covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the
cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is
between me and you and every living creature
of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy
all flesh.
(Genesis 9:17 [KJV])
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established
between me
and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Other Biblical References
(Luke 17:27 [KJV])
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were
given in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed
them all.
(Matthew 24:37-39 [KJV])
But as the days of Noe were,
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that
were before the flood they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage, until the
day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until
the flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
(2 Peter 2:5 [KJV])
And spared not the old world, but
saved Noah the eighth person, a
preacher of righteousness,
bringing in the
flood upon the world of the ungodly;
(2 Peter 3:6 [KJV])
Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with
water, perished:
(Genesis 9:11 [KJV])
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all
flesh be cut off any more by the waters
of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood
to destroy the earth.
(Genesis 9:15 [KJV])
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you
and every living creature of all
flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all
flesh.
Its Effects Are Seen Globally Today
- All the mountains of the world have been under water at some time or times in the past, as indicated by sedimentary rocks and marine fossils near their summits. Even most volcanic mountains with their pillow lavas seem largely to have been formed when under water.
- Most of the earth's crust consists of sedimentary rocks (sandstones, shales, limestones, etc.). These were originally formed in almost all cases under water, usually by deposition after transportation by water from various sources.
- (me) There is also a great worldwide unconformity which eliminates the need for time to deposit those layers
- The assigned "ages" of the sedimentary beds (which comprise the bulk of the "geologic column") have been deduced from their assemblages of fossils. Fossils, however, normally require very rapid burial and compaction to be preserved at all. Thus every sedimentary formation appears to have been formed rapidly—even catastrophically—and more and more present-day geologists are returning to this point of view.
- Since there is known to be a global continuity of sedimentary formations in the geologic column (that is, there is no worldwide "unconformity," or time gap, between successive "ages"), and since each unit was formed rapidly, the entire geologic column seems to be the product of continuous rapid deposition of sediments, comprising in effect the geological record of a time when "the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished."
- It is also significant that the types of rocks, the vast extent of specific sedimentary rock formations, the minerals and metals, coal and oil found in rocks, the various types of structures (i.e., faults, folds, thrusts, etc.), sedimentary rocks grossly deformed while still soft from recent deposition, and numerous other features seem to occur indiscriminately throughout the various "ages" supposedly represented in the column. To all outward appearances, therefore, they were all formed in essentially the same brief time period.
- The fossil sequences in the sedimentary rocks do not constitute a legitimate exception to this rule, for there is a flagrant circular reasoning process involved in using them to identify their supposed geologic age. That is, the fossils have been dated by the rocks where they are found, which in turn had been dated by their imbedded fossils with the sequences based on their relative assumed stages of evolution, which had ultimately been based on the ancient philosophy of the "great chain of being." Instead of representing the evolution of life over many ages, the fossils really speak of the destruction of life (remember that fossils are dead things, catastrophically buried for preservation) in one age, with their actual local "sequences" having been determined by the ecological communities in which they were living at the time of burial.
- The fact that there are traditions of the great Flood found in hundreds of tribes in all parts of the world (all similar in one way or another to that in the Genesis record) is firm evidence that those tribes all originated from the one family preserved through the cataclysm.
