"Noah's" Flood....Millennial Week....Patriarch Ages....Bible and History Reconciled

How the Biblical Flood Story can be defended if it coincides with End of last Ice Age

Scientists can

Map from "History and Life" Scott, Foresman 2d ed. pg. 1984 pg. 8

prove without a doubt that there were 3

major ICE AGES prior to 11,000 yrs ago...

"Noah's Flood"

occurred at the END of the last great ICE AGE, which

allows the destruction caused by this flood to be mixed

with and indistinguishable from that caused by melting

and sliding ice!

And the Christians trying to defend the concept of a

universal disaster [since the Bible describes such a

disaster] have in modern times run into the data that

does support a local "Flood" in Mesopotamia about

the time they suppose the Bible describes "Noah's"

flood, large enough to inundate many cities, but not

large enough to support even the IDEA that the

entire earth's population was endangered!

Once we understand that Biblical writers,

and the Essene Scripture "editors" and copyists at their

"Scriptorium" at Qumran were more interested in

promoting a "Prophetic Scheme" based on the earth

being only about 4000 years old in their "Age", we can

move on to justify what the Bible teaches in other areas,

without wasting energy on "proving" the unprovable!

Modern Jewish Scholars do not try to defend these ages

of the Patriarchs as being genuine, and see the earth as

being as old as the Scientists [many of them Jewish] say

it is........The following dates are taken from Simon and

Schuster's "The Timetables of Jewish History" 1993

by Judah Gribetz, Edward L. Greenstein, and Regina Stern.....

In Egypt the earliest- known village culture appears in the Fayyum area of the Nile Delta.	-4300	[Still 300 years to go be- fore Adam and Eve are created at the end of "6 days" of CREATION!] .....Comment by R. Holt
The custom of burying the dead together with their possessions, enabling them to live in the next world, is already in evidence in Egypt.	-4000	[The world has now been created!] R.H.
Northern Mesopotamia is settled by the Subarians an apparently central Asian people who may have given the idea of writing to the Sumerians who will supersede them.	-3500	Throughout the land of Israel, village culture is evident, with notable concentrations in the Negev and the Jordan Valley....Copper imple- ments begin to be manu- factured in the next few centuries.
The Sumerians (possibly Shinar in Genesis 11:2), a people of uncertain origins who settled southern Mesopotamia sometime before 4000 BCE, have by now built cities and irrigation canals...They invent or develop a system of writing, which will be further developed and stylized as cuneiform... They work in bronze and build cities...Their tradition ascribes the first fruits of civilization to the divine sage Uanna- Adapa, whose name may be reflected in the Greek Oannes and the Bible's Adam.	-3100	The early Bronze Age that runs the course of several centuries in Pales- tine is characterized by diverse painted pottery... Fortified cities begin to emerge, often built on a rocky hill....So do the cultic "high places" that will later incense Israel's prophets...Vines, for which Israel will later be renowned, are imported... Inhabitants speak an early form of western Semetic, from which Hebrew (Canaanite) will stem.
Upper and Lower Egypt are consolidated by Narmer (Menes, tradit- ional founder of the 1st Dynasty?) and trade begins with Phoenicia and beyond...Although not as advanced in art and technology as Mesopotamia, Egypt devises hieroglyptic writing...The IndusValley begins to evolve a highly centralized civilization.	-3000	In Hebrew, Egypt will still be known as the "Two Lands" (Mitsrayim).

Note that in the 8,000 plus years prior to the building

of tombs and pyramids and firm belief in gods and

an after-life in Misrayim [Egypt] the only "flood"

of any importance seems to be in the region where

the Sumerian "Noah" lives...about 2900 BCE...

..........If we accept that this is "the flood" of Genesis,

it causes A LOT of problems! Theologically that is!

#1...It further shortens the "Age" of the earth, if we alter the ages of the

.......Patriarch's downward to adjust for the 2900 BCE date. Instead of

.........2142 years from Adam's "creation" to the FLOOD [Septuigint], or 1556 years

.........from Adam's "creation" to the FLOOD [KJV & Tanakh], we have 4004-2900=

.........1104 years from creation to the FLOOD...and the world is only 6000-452=

..........and we need to put off celebrating the year 2000 for another 452 years!

.......mere 7 days, or even several weeks or a month, could hardly

.......justify the words of Genesis ch.6 "6.."And it repented the Lord

.......that he had made man on the earth...7...I will destroy man...from

.......the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing,

.......and the fowls of the air...11..the earth also was corrupt before

.......God, and the earth was filled with violence...13 "And God said

.......unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me;...and, behold,

.......I will destroy them with the earth."

.........No matter how BAD a flood was in Shuruppak, or how extensive

.......the damage to local buildings, there is NO AVOIDING that the

.........ENTIRE WORLD is the site of the DISASTER cited in Genesis

.........chapter 6!...And immigration of some western Semites to the area is NOT

..........SUFFICIENT REASON for a WORLD-WIDE disaster!

Only a world-wide disaster of the proportions that

most certainly would have occurred at the end of

the last great ice age, with major global warming,

prolonged disastrous cyclones, major rainstorms

all over the earth, and sea-shores moving inland

at rapid rates, accompanied by periodic tidal waves

as large chunks of ice crashed into the oceans all

around the world, and increased volcanic activity,

.....fit the picture in Genesis...

The only "problem" is the DATING, which I believe

we have adequately dealt with!

Good sense decrees that it would have taken many

thousands of years for conditions on earth to even

approach what they had been before the shorelines

and climate had changed so radically....As the snow

and ice built up again, over thousands of years,

Southern Iraq rose once again out of the Persian

Gulf, to be rebuilt again by distant descendents of

the original "Noah" and no doubt did suffer a minor

inundation about 2900 BCE, but not bad enough to

prevent Uruk [nearby] from building its famous wall

within 200 years of this event!

.....And soon thereafter MOST or ALL of the pre-

.....11,000 BCE "Cities of the Gods" were rebuilt,

.....hailing back to a time millennia before, when

.....according to Genesis 6:1-4: ".......it came to

......pass, when men began to multiply on the face

......of the earth, and daughters were born unto

......them, that the sons of God [Elohim or Anunaki]

......[Tanakh-"divine beings"]saw the daughters of

......men that they were fair [Tanakh-"saw how

......beautiful the daughters of men were"]; and they

......took them wives of all which they chose...And

......the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive

......with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days

......shall be an hundred and twenty years...There

......were giants in the earth in those days,...

......[Tanakh- It was then, and later too, that the

......Nephilim appeared on earth -- when the divine

......beings cohabited with the daughters of men,

......who bore them offspring. They were the heroes

......of old, the men of renown.] [Sitchin translates

......this last word "shem" with its Sumerian meaning

......people of the Space-Ships.."Heavenly Astronauts"]

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