I have some questions about the "Local Flood" of Noah

[PDPrice (Paul Price)]

@Eddie

Since substantial evidence for a worldwide flood at any period is virtually absent, and for one about the time of Noah (ca. 3100 BC or so) is pretty near nil, most geologists, archaeologists and historians, of any religious stripe, do not find the “it really happened” explanation convincing as an explanation of the global distribution of flood stories, and the psychology/phenomenology explanation is the predominant one among religion scholars.

This is the core of your problem. You’re trusting what the scoffers are telling you, rather than the what God told us in the Bible. Peter warned us this would happen in 2 Peter 3 so we wouldn’t be taken off guard. You won’t believe the Bible really teaches what it says because your true authority is so-called scientific consensus.

@Eddie

PD Price will doubtless be able to name a hundred fundamentalist scholars who are convinced of a global flood about 3000 BC, but overwhelmingly such scholars are found within Protestant fundamentalist denominations, not even in all Protestant evangelical groups, and certain not in mainline Protestantism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, or Judaism (outside of a very tiny group of literalist Jews), or the Asian religious traditions.

It doesn’t matter who can name whom. It matters what God said happened. It also just so happens that there is overwhelming evidence for a global flood which must be deliberately overlooked (cf 2 Peter 3).

@Eddie

What we need is good science and good Biblical exegesis, and these are both at their best when not being driven by agendas brought in from other fields.

Yes, I agree wholeheartedly. There can be no honest exegesis at all when the concept is introduced that the Bible need not “teach” what it actually says!