Shaking Matt's Faith

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POOBAH
Well you yourself admitted that there might not have been a worldwide flood.
That would be "strong evidence" that the Noah story wasn't "entirely
truthful" wouldn't you agree?

CARTER
Worldwide (from Moses' perspective) does not neccessarily mean the entire
span of the earth, considering that Moses probably did not have knowledge
of how large the earth was. A case can be made that the Bible supports a
localized flood - but again, my main reason for avoiding this topic is that
I do not have enough time to research all the archeological/textual
evidence to either defend or support such a view.

POOBAH
Alright, alright, you don't want to discuss this topic. But I'm gonna keep
poking anyway.

The notion that a flood was worldwide "from Moses' perspective" really
destroys the notion of inerrancy. Isn't it possible that the Koran is
inerrant from "Mohammed's perspective"? How do you decide which prophet's
perspective is most valid? How do you then decide which
commands/statements/observations are from "God's perspective" and which are
from the "writer's perspective"?

Finally if you are going to posit a flood that covers the entire world "from
Moses' perspective," then this would have to be a flood that at the very
least covered Mesopotamia (since he writes of Abraham), Israel (the promised
land), and Egypt (since that's where Moses was from) as well as all
countries in between.

We have copious records from Mesopotamia & Egypt.

Perhaps you can give us a date for that flood?

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