The Flood
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The Flood
It is possible that no written words have survived as much skepticism or criticism as the story of Noah and the Great Flood. Barely a century ago, scholars dismissed it as a parable, believing that it was just another quaint old legend designed as moral fiber for mankind. They never suspected there might be some element of truth in the flood, or some way of proving its authenticity. But today, that evidence exists. Clues are everywhere and have been found in the most unexpected places.
Why did God send the flood? God sent the flood because of the fallen angels that left heaven and came to earth to have children with the daughters of Adam and Eve. The offspring of this union were the Nephilim or giants (Genesis 6:1-4 and Jude v6). This was an attempt by Satan to pollute the blood line of Adam and Eve which is the same blood line that Jesus Christ came from (Luke 3:23-38). According to the Bible, God said unto Noah, “Behold . . . I do bring a flood of waters upon the earth.” The Bible said that “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the windows of heaven were opened. All the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered.” It said the waters prevailed fifteen cubits upwards, raining forty days and nights. At a depth of fifteen cubits, the highest mountains on earth would have been covered with more than twenty feet of water. It took more than a year for the waters to subside. Biblical scholars have estimated that the deluge would have killed one billion humans and thirty-five trillion animals.And they say that it is exactly what God intended—to erase a wicked, violent world.
Clearly, if anyone was going to find the Great Flood of the Bible, scientists would have to search for a source of water that could have flooded the entire planet, not just selected portions of it. They found it in melting ice. As the geologists explained it, the earths axis had shifted many times, most recently between about 8,000 and 15,000 years ago. The obvious consequence of such an action would have been a dramatic change in atmospheric conditions. The polar ice caps, suddenly transposed to the temperate belt, would melt, and the level of the oceans would rise accordingly. Volcanoes would erupt, suddenly filling the skies with ash. This protective canopy of vapor would react like a greenhouse, and the resultant condensation would cause torrential downpours. The entire earth would be exposed to the full fury of waters above and below the earth . . . just as recorded in the Bible. The scientists estimated that when the last ice age melted, the oceans rose 300 feet. They have also theorized that this could have happened very rapidly and was the basis for Noahs Flood. And they cite effects on North America from the melting polar ice to prove the global flood theory. When the ice cap had thinned out considerably, it seemed to have collapsed and produced a giant flood down the