Shaking Matt's Faith

Brian Malcolm poobah@frodo.com
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:08:56 -0800 (00917791736, 000001be4cf0$f3b1f260$0800640b@raphael.sttls1.wa.home.com)


Achilles

7:4
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.

(That was YHWH speaking.)

Still think you can have both an inerrant bible and a local flood? I would
love
to hear your rationale.

POOBAH
Based on the Turkel website, I expect to hear that since this is the same
writer as Gen1 & 2, that "living substance of the face of the earth" is not
the same as "living substance of the field" and that "earth" refers to
Palestine only, whereas "living substance of the field" is a more general
description, so therefore God only meant he would destroy everything in the
path of the flood, not everywhere on earth.