faith writes:
It's possible to nitpick about words to prove just about anything you want. I do doubt that it is true Christians who get engaged in that sort of thing.
Why is any deviation in interpretation of words for your interpretation a "nitpicking"? I can claim that you are nitpicking about words as well. On what basis could you claim i was wrong?
faith writes:
The skills of the English Bible translators, of the KJV and the versions that preceded it, were excellent. Tyndale, the Geneva Bible and others. Why do you think you can do better?
I am not saying they translated it incorrectly. They used the phrase "whole world" and depending on context, that phrase is entirely appropriate as well. It is inappropriate to assume "whole word" means the total surface of the planet earth. Where is your basis for such a stand?
faith writes:
If the Flood was merely local God would not have had Noah spend a hundred years building the ark, He would have had him and his family move to a place where they'd be out of the way of the Flood.
It took a hundred years for a small family to build such a monstrosity. Try building it today with the tools noah had in his day with just you and 3 sons. Beyond that, think of the witnessing tool the ark was. Noah was showing the "whole world" his obedience and faith in God. Do you think he was showing his obedience to people on easter island? The people on easter island and the inuits in the arctic regions of canada, among others, had no idea that noah existed, much less that he was building an ark.
faith writes:
Looks like God had in mind destroying ALL men, ALL flesh. Would that have happened in a limited flood?
He certainly didn't have to use a flood to kill all men on the face of planet earth. In fact, there is evidence that other major catastrophes occurred in other areas of the planet fairly close to the time of noah's flood. Beyond that, ALL flesh doesn't necessarily mean all organisms. Even a world wide flood would not destroy all lifeforms from the earth. A simple, unbiased reading of the text indicates that God destroyed all humans and animals noah depended on for survival in the whole area in which noah was aware of even by word of mouth.
faith writes:
Don't fool around with alternative translations of words for the sake of believing what unbelievers tell you or arguments you think you understand through your own fallible mind.
I don't have to fool around with other translations. I don't necessarily have to get the understanding of the flood story that you do when I read the Kind James Version of Genesis.
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