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Is there any obvious evidence today for the biblical global Flood?

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ARE THERE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN SCRIPTURE?​

Answering Bible Difficulties – Question 21 by Don Stewart.

One of the arguments brought forth against an inerrant Bible concerns errors of grammar in the text. Since the language of Scripture does not always conform to the normal rules of grammar, it is assumed to be in error in those particular instances. A number of examples are usually given:

1. There Are Examples of Grammatical Irregularities​

There are a number of examples of grammatical irregularities in Scripture. This is especially true in the Book of Revelation. John, the author of this book, often uses a plural verb when the accepted practice was to use a singular verb. These are known as solecisms.

John uses an ungrammatical construction in describing Jesus. He wrote the following:

John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne. (Revelation 1:4 NRSV)​

The words, “From him who is, and who was, and who is to come” are written in very ungrammatical Greek.

Other illustrations can be given where standard grammar is not used. For example, Paul begins the third chapter of Ephesians by using a sentence that does not have a verb. This is not correct grammar.
 

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The Bible clearly and positively affirms that there was a global flood.

Gen 7:19-20 (AKJV/PCE)
(7:19) And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered. (7:20) Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

So why insist on using a weak and pointless argument based on absence of information and a double-negative?
 

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Dead wrong, Clete.
I have not intentionally insisted on using poor grammar.
Okay, wow!

It's official. I can no longer remember a time when anyone on TOL ever changed their mind about anything, no matter what anyone said or how they said it.
 

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I believe in a flood over the entire earth.
Color me stupid but I can't see how falling sheets of ice could be proof of it or that they would cause mass freezing.
Konkin' a wooly mammoth on the head and killing it sure.
This from the article...
Consider the work of Dr. Walt Brown, an MIT grad with a PhD in mechanical engineering, who explained the decades ago that highly pressurized water from the earth's crust could have shot up into the atmosphere before falling in frozen sheetsand that this frozen deluge would explain why so many prehistoric animals like mammoths were frozen instantly with green grass in their stomachs (grass takes mere seconds to turn brown in the acid of an elephant's stomach).

Reckon all that ice built up in a big pile miraculously missing a direct hit on them and then once they were covered, they then froze?
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Wait. Santa and the Easter Bunny are related??!!
 

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Do you assume that the atmosphere was radically different?
"Radical" is subjective, but yes I think it was different. Perhaps higher carbon dioxide and less oxygen as a percentage. And, yes, that would require higher pressures to breath.
 

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"Radical" is subjective, but yes I think it was different. Perhaps higher carbon dioxide and less oxygen as a percentage. And, yes, that would require higher pressures to breath.
I'm sorry that you did not like my word choice. Was the pre-flood atmosphere extremely different? Very different? Quite different?

Yes, it probably had more carbon dioxide and probably MORE oxygen. Many of the dinosaurs would have needed a high oxygen atmosphere to survive (due to their small breathing holes and large bodies).
 

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I'm sorry that you did not like my word choice. Was the pre-flood atmosphere extremely different? Very different? Quite different?

Yes, it probably had more carbon dioxide and probably MORE oxygen. Many of the dinosaurs would have needed a high oxygen atmosphere to survive (due to their small breathing holes and large bodies).
It would have been either somewhat or very different. I'm not sure without more data.

But having less oxygen as a percentage and higher pressures would also allow larger creatures to breath.
 

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It would have been either somewhat or very different. I'm not sure without more data.

But having less oxygen as a percentage and higher pressures would also allow larger creatures to breath.
The pressure that we are talking about per the canopy theory would be greater than could be survived regardless of the atmospheric composition.
 

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The pressure that we are talking about per the canopy theory would be greater than could be survived regardless of the atmospheric composition.
What canopy theory are you talking about? I've never eluded to any *formal* canopy theory.

I'm not so sure the canopy would have had to be that thick to exist. It only had to be thick enough to induce the pressure that was required for life.
 
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