Shaking Matt's Faith

Joseph Crea Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 08:02:49 +0000 (00917791369, 19990131080249.CSYG27637@LOCALNAME) 

Hello, Poobah!

At 10:56 PM 1/30/99 -0800, Brian Malcolm wrote:

>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?



CREA
   And I'm curious as to how it is possible to reconcile the statement at
Genesis 8:21, where ole YHWH promises "...never again to destroy EVERY
LIVING THING, as I have done" with (a) a local flood, and (b) the survival
of the various "kinds" of cetaceans, and other aquatic life forms which
COULDn't have travelled to the Ark?


With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>