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Introduction
Genesis is vitally important
All major Biblical doctrines are introduced into the first 11 chapers
It is the foundation of the Bible
If you destroy the foundation, everything else crumbles around it
Looking at the apologetics of Genesis two things stick out
Creation
And the Flood
Today, we are going to look at the flood
Two goals
Outline the evidence for a global flood
Refute the criticisms of the flood
I need to remind you that this is an overview
Two Word Views
Secular
A cosmic accident that was set in motion when nothing exploded - eventually leading orderly planets, solar systems and galaxies
The key doctrine is Uniformitarianism
Uniformitarianism is the believe that the laws that govern the universe have never changed; “The present is the key to the past”
Here is the problem - Uniformitarianism discounts all catastrophies
Biblical
God of the Bible is outside of time, space, and matter.
He created and sustains according to His desire and purposes.
His Word declares that He brought a major flood to the earth
What we seen as far as the earth goes is NOT what God has created - It is what God has created after a catastrophie
Genesis 6:
Gensis
You need to try to grasp the force of a world wide catastrophie - Plate tectonics action
Evidence for The Flood
Flood Animation Video
Evidence for The Flood
The Existence of Fossils
The Bible claims that early in earth’s history - God judged the world with a global flood - If that were true what would we expect to see - Billions of dead things under neath our feet
Now the evolutionists try to use fossils (unsuccessfully) to make a case for their world view but the very existence of fossils screams flood
The abundance of things that die do not form fossils
In order to form a fossil - An organic creature must be quickly encased in mud - we will come back to this in a latter session
The Universality of The Flood Story
If there was a flood, followed by the tower of Bable - What would you expect?
Flood legends or stories that record an oral history of the event
Listen to these:
Africa
Southwest Tanzania
Once upon a time the rivers began to flood.
The god told two people to get into a ship.
He told them to take lots of seed and to take lots of animals.
The water of the flood eventually covered the mountains.
Finally the flood stopped.
Then one of the men, wanting to know if the water had dried up let a dove loose.
The dove returned.
Later he let loose a hawk which did not return.
Then the men left the boat and took the animals and the seeds with them.
Asia
China
The Chinese classic called the Hihking tells about "the family of Fuhi," that was saved from a great flood.
This ancient story tells that the entire land was flooded; the mountains and everything, however one family survived in a boat.
The Chinese consider this man the father of their civilization.
This record indicates that Fuhi, his wife, three sons, and three daughters were the only people that escaped the great flood.
It is claimed, that he and his family were the only people alive on earth, and repopulated the world.
Babylon
Gilgamesh met an old man named Utnapishtim, who told him the following story.
The gods came to Utnapishtim to warn him about a terrible flood that was coming.
They instructed Utnapishtim to destroy his house and build a large ship.
The ship was to be 10 dozen cubits high, wide and long.
Utnapishtim was to cover the ship with pitch.
He was supposed to take male and female animals of all kinds, his wife and family, provisions, etc. into the ship.
Once ship was completed the rain began falling intensely.
The rain fell for six days and nights.
Finally things calmed and the ship settled on the top of Mount Nisir.
After the ship had rested for seven days Utnapishtim let loose a dove.
Since the land had not dried the dove returned.
Next he sent a swallow which also returned.
Later he let loose a raven which never returned since the ground had dried.
Utnapishtim then left the ship.
Chaldean
There was a man by the name of Xisuthrus.
The god Chronos warned Xisuthrus of a coming flood and told him to build a boat.
The boat was to be 5 stadia by 2 stadia.
In this boat Xisuthrus was to put his family, friends and two of each animal (male and female).
The flood came.
When the waters started to recede he let some birds loose.
They came back and he noticed they had mud on their feet.
He tried again with the same results.
When he tried the third time the birds did not return.
Assuming the water had dried up the people got out of the boat and offered sacrifices to the gods.
India
A long time ago lived a man named Manu.
Manu, while washing himself, saved a small fish from the jaws of a large fish.
The fish told Manu, "If you care for me until I am full grown I will save you from terrible things to come".
Manu asked what kind of terrible things.
The fish told Manu that a great flood would soon come and destroy everything on the earth.
The fish told Manu to put him in a clay jar for protection.
The fish grew and each time he outgrew the clay jar Manu gave him a larger one.
Finally the fish became a ghasha, one of the largest fish in the world.
The fish instructed Manu to build a large ship since the flood was going to happen very soon.
As the rains started Manu tied a rope from the ship to the ghasha.
The fish guided the ship as the waters rose.
The whole earth was covered by water.
When the waters began subsiding the ghasha led Manu's ship to a mountaintop.
Australia
There is a legend of a flood called the Dreamtime flood.
Riding on this flood was the woramba, or the Ark Gumana.
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