Posted by jimmyjames [jimmyjames] on April 09, 1999 at 11:15:43 {qzNMJDwJ.2OfSZqlzZ0Uijuk77B9Xg}:
In Reply to: To WW (Godfroi): posted by Covert on April 09, 1999 at 05:45:11:
Covert,
Good link. One nitpick on it though:
The language is explicit enough to discount the theory that the flood was localized, because a limited flood could not have covered ALL the high mountains under the WHOLE heaven.
Not necessarily. This is only an argument against people who believe every word of the Bible was written down by God's direction (in other words, Biblical inerrantists).
If the Bible was written down by men, and ancient men at that who didn't have any real idea how large the earth really was, this doesn't really signify anything except the writer's and other human's perception of the flood.
Wherever and for whatever reason the flood myths originated,
it's apparent that the accounts about them were written down by men. Just my 2 cents.