{"id":1058,"date":"2017-03-11T21:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.creationbc.org\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2021-09-28T12:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:13:53","slug":"saddle-catnap-ten-reasons-why-the-genesis-flood-must-have-been-a-global-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/saddle-catnap-ten-reasons-why-the-genesis-flood-must-have-been-a-global-event\/","title":{"rendered":"“SADDLE CATNAP”: Ten reasons why the Genesis flood must have been a global event"},"content":{"rendered":"

SA<\/span>D<\/span>D<\/span>L<\/span>E<\/span> C<\/span>A<\/span>T<\/span>NA<\/span>P<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

TEN REASONS WHY THE GENESIS FLOOD MUST HAVE BEEN A GLOBAL EVENT<\/span><\/h3>\n
by Richard Peachey<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n

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SA<\/span><\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/td>\nS<\/span><\/strong>ize of the A<\/span><\/strong>rk<\/strong> \u2014 The Ark was “450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high” (Genesis 6:15). Built like a huge barge, the Ark had the same capacity as about 520 standard railroad stock cars \u2014 easily enough room to hold every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal. (A much smaller vessel could have been used to save all the varieties of local<\/em> animals.)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 D<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nD<\/span><\/strong>epth of the Water<\/strong> \u2014 The water “rose and increased greatly on the earth,” covering “all the high mountains under the entire heavens . . . to a depth of more than twenty feet” (Genesis 7:18-20). And later on, it wasn’t until the water had already “gone down” quite a bit that the Ark grounded “on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:3,4). Could this have been a “local” flood?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 D<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nD<\/span><\/strong>uration of the Flood<\/strong> \u2014 The flood continued rising for forty days (Genesis 7:17), then took months to go down. For more than seven months no land could be seen (Genesis 8:5) \u2014 and the earth remained too wet to live on for over a year (Genesis 8:14). Could such a flood have been “local”?<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 L<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nThe L<\/span><\/strong>ord Jesus Christ<\/strong> \u2014 Our Saviour affirmed that the flood was worldwide; he compared the future judgment to the one that had occurred in Noah’s time. Jesus said, “. . . the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:39).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 E<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nThe E<\/span><\/strong>arth<\/strong> \u2014 Three-quarters of the Earth’s continental land surface is composed of fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks. There are “billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water, all over the Earth.” Most of these are marine organisms; some are large animals, jumbled together in huge “fossil graveyards.”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 C<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nC<\/span><\/strong>auses of the Flood<\/strong> \u2014 Physically<\/em>, the flood occurred when “all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened” (Genesis 7:11). Spiritually<\/em>, the flood was God’s judgment on “man’s wickedness on the earth” (Genesis 6:5). These causes are not “local.”<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 A<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nThe A<\/span><\/strong>postle Peter<\/strong> \u2014 Peter repeatedly affirmed a global flood: “. . . God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water” (1 Peter 3:20). “By water also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed” (2 Peter 3:6, cf. 2:5).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 T<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nT<\/span><\/strong>raditions from many nations<\/strong> \u2014 Hundreds of people groups around the world have stories in which a great flood leaves only a few survivors. Such tales have been found among the native peoples of North and South America, Australia, Japan, China, India, and Europe.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NA<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nN<\/span><\/strong>eed for the A<\/span><\/strong>rk<\/strong> \u2014 Noah was warned that the flood was coming. If it were only a local flood, he could have escaped by leaving the area. So could the animals (especially birds!). An Ark would not have been needed at all.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 P<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nP<\/span><\/strong>romise of God<\/strong> \u2014 After the flood, God said, “. . . never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done” (Genesis 8:21). But if Noah’s flood was local<\/em>, then God has often broken that promise, because many<\/em> destructive local floods have occurred since Noah’s time!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SADDLE CATNAP TEN REASONS WHY THE GENESIS FLOOD MUST HAVE BEEN A GLOBAL EVENT by Richard Peachey SA  Size of the Ark \u2014 The Ark was “450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high” (Genesis 6:15). Built like a huge barge, the Ark had the same capacity as about 520 standard railroad stock cars \u2014 easily enough room to hold every kind of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal. (A much smaller vessel could have been used to save all the varieties of local animals.)  D Depth of the Water \u2014 The water “rose and increased greatly on the earth,” covering “all the high mountains under the entire heavens . . . to a depth of more than twenty feet” (Genesis 7:18-20). And later on, it wasn’t until the water had already “gone down” quite a bit that the Ark grounded “on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:3,4). Could this have been a “local” flood?  D Duration of the Flood \u2014 The flood continued rising for forty days (Genesis 7:17), then took months to go down. For more than seven months no land could be seen (Genesis 8:5) \u2014 and the earth remained too wet to live on for over a year (Genesis 8:14). Could such a flood have been “local”?  L The Lord Jesus Christ \u2014 Our Saviour affirmed that the flood was worldwide; he compared the future judgment to the one that had occurred in Noah’s time. Jesus said, “. . . the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man” (Matthew 24:39).  E The Earth \u2014 Three-quarters of the Earth’s continental land surface is composed of fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks. There are “billions of dead things, buried in rock layers laid down by water, all over the Earth.” Most of these are marine organisms; some are large animals, jumbled together in huge “fossil graveyards.”  C Causes of the Flood \u2014 Physically, the flood occurred when “all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened” (Genesis 7:11). Spiritually, the flood was God’s judgment on “man’s wickedness on the earth” (Genesis 6:5). These causes are not “local.”  A The Apostle Peter \u2014 Peter repeatedly affirmed a global flood: “. . . God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water” (1 Peter 3:20). “By water also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed” (2 Peter 3:6, cf. 2:5).  T Traditions from many nations \u2014 Hundreds of people groups around the world have stories in which a great flood leaves only a few survivors. Such tales have been found among the native peoples of North and South America, Australia, Japan, China, India, and Europe. NA Need for the Ark \u2014 Noah was warned that the flood was coming. If it were only a local flood, he could have escaped by leaving the area. So could the animals (especially birds!). An Ark would not have been needed at all.  P Promise of God \u2014 After the flood, God said, “. . . never again will I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,297,7,338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-bible","category-biblical","category-the-flood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/8056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creationbc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}