Gilbert Dekelaita on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Recorded history is the biggest proof that the biblical record is accurate and consistent with natural history. There are no earlier historic advanced civilizations other than the ones the bible...
View ArticleThomas on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
I know this is a quite old thread, but I like the discussion on the change in lifespans following the Flood. I have a theory that the earth may have experienced a real and significant change in entropy...
View ArticleABR on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Question: Do we have any literary information (extra-biblical) concerning the name of the city-state ruler in the area of Jerusalem in EB IV/MB I? Answer: Several groups of execration (cursing) texts...
View ArticleH.M. Singleton on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
I have always understood the rapid lowering in age after the flood to simply refer to the ever changing ecosystem of the world due to the effects of the flood. Rather than give it ethical reason...
View ArticleDavid Doerr on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
A casual study of Egyptian mythology does not reveal a parallel with the Genesis Flood story. A careful, thorough study of Egyptian mythology does, however. Amun - king of the gods - (Greek,...
View ArticleDave on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
@jonathan rowland, Very interesting idea. I have long believed that Abraham had personal interactions with Shem, and this time of knowledge transfer accounted for his astonishing vision and faith. But...
View Articlejonathan rowland on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Thank you Rick for your kind reply. The more I think about this the more convincing it seems (although very aware not to be dogmatic about non doctrinal issues) – when “they” said ‘let us build a tower...
View ArticleRick Lanser on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Hello Jonathan,In my opinion, your thought is a good one. "Melchizedek" could indeed be a title rather than a proper name. As the writer of Hebrews points out in Heb. 7:2, "Melchizedek," a compound of...
View Articlejonathan rowland on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
You correctly refer to the fact that people lived far longer before the flood than after the flood and the non-Biblical records you refer to provide some corroboration of this. This leads to an...
View ArticleMarie Keller on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
What do you have a Ph.D. in? Religious stories are a different language than science. You discredit religion when you use the Bible to make scientific claims. Do you really believe that the Bible is...
View ArticleH. M. Singleton on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Wonderful article. I am planning on writing my MA Thesis on the topic (or similar) of the transition between Pre-history and EB1 (I would like to theorize about archaeology and the Biblical...
View ArticleUpton S. Hodge on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Brother Gary Byers,I wish I could personally discuss some of these articles with you, particularly concerning the fit or non-fit of some of the Sumerian influences on Charles Darwin, etc.I am currently...
View Articlel gould on A Universal Flood: 3000 B.C.
Couple of musings 1. I do not think any of the flood myths were based on the Bible or that they came from a common primitive original document. The Bible version is the true version as revealed through...
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