God of the OT and God of the NT EMPHATICALLY support the Genesis Flood. I have to wonder who/what is your god who rejects the Genesis Flood?
My God also supports the Flood - just not the way depicted - some scribe overstated the flood .. I am sure at the time a flood in a large Geographical region would have seemed like the whole world was taken out.. and there were huge floods in the past due to melting glaciers...
From 12000 BC to present sea level has risen 100 Meters .. over 300 feet. couple that with some major event like when the geological dam broke that created the black sea .. ...done .. that's a global flood as far as someone living round 5000 BC would figure.
Look at a map .. imagine no sea .. now imagine a dam breaking and make a big splash towards turkey - Mount Ararat .. and it is likely that someones raft laden with family landed there ... and a whole lot of people dead - Society literally started anew in the region .. Everything wiped out over a huge region. Imagine that dam break because of a massive earthquack sending massive Tsunami througout the fertile delta
It was not like population was that high to begin with .. but what was there was wiped out. - and things started afresh. So you have "Noah's story" .. and then you have the story that folks made up about Naohs Story .. handed down by oral tradition over a few thousand years - and by the time it finally gets written down ... it has grown a bit.
Then there is the more realistic possibility that when Judaism was created as a religion - starting with the History of Moses - supposedly they found the book of the law around 600 AD but .. what else was there ? .. some fragments here and there .. perhaps some oral history back to Abraham .. and then you had the standard creation story that everybody believed in .. Israelites included .. Canaanites, Assyrians, Babylonians and so on.
So when the Religious history of the Israelites was being compiled .. they included the creation story - Which didn't come from Moses ... so where did it come from ? - the distant past.. the collective memory of all Semitic Peoples ..
Was there some "inspiration" along the way .. why not ? But just as the book we know today as "The Bible" has been corrupted over time .. the stories of Noah .. passed down generation after generation .. not just among the Israelites ... but all these folks .. they are all Related to Shem as well - all have the same story.
Your problem is that the only way you can look at the Bible is from a Literalist Perspective .. one small deviation from perfection - and your whole foundation collapses - so you defend like crazy this by pretending this crack does not exist - but they do - way too many to count - mans fingerprints are all over the Bible ..
Shall we look at some of Man's handiwork ? a little Slicing and Dicing ? What shall we remove today ... hmmm Those Christians are burning people for heresy .. 700-900AD - Scribes putting together the MT were aware of this .. and - after all - getting rid of some things in the OT that suggested other divinities .. was against Jewish Doctrine at that time..
Yes .. lets do some slicing and dicing shall we ..
LXX Deut 32:43 Pre Christian Text - BC
O heavens, rejoice with Him, Bow to him all sons of the divine
O nations, rejoice with his people and let all angels of the divine Strengthen themselves in Him
For He’ll avenge the blood of His Son’s, Be vengeful, and wreak vengeance and recompense justice on his foes
Requite those who reject Him, and the Lord will Cleanse his peoples land.
MT Deut 32:43 Masoretic Text
O Nations rejoice His people
For He'll avenge the blood of His Servants and wreck vengeance on his foes
and will Cleans his peoples Land
Modern Translation - NIV Deut 32:43
Rejoice, you nations, with his people,
for he will avenge the blood of his servants;he will take vengeance on his enemies
and make atonement for his land and people.
So you see .. the scribes wiped out all them divinities .. Gone .. The first two lines reduced to "Oh Regoice" His People.
Not that the modern translation uses the MT version - but makes further changes ... instead of "Cleansing the Land" ...and we all know what that means
.. to Huh ? atonement ? thats ridiculous .. does not even come close to "Cleansing the land" and it is no longer "His peoples Land" .. but "His land"..
Guess the modern folks figured the land needed a change in ownership.
So as you see .. the modern translation is a shadow of what it was .. wiped clean of meaning by the hand of man over time.
And this is with stuff that was written down ... How much less reliable is oral history ? - and this is not for all of Genesis .. as it Genesis covers alot .. but for the flood story ... way way in the past .. whereas for other things like Abraham it is much closer to the present.
