Noah's flood notes Flashcards
Hebrew word for flood (OT)
mabbul
Greek word for flood (NT)
cataclysmos
Genesis 6:17
flood affected “all life” and “every creature”
Genesis 7:18-20
flood covered “high mountains under the whole heavens”
1 Peter 3:20
8 people “saved through water”
2 Peter 3:5-7
world was “deluged and destroyed” for “judgement”
who argues that all people (except Noah and his family) were killed during the flood?
both OT and NT authors
The Flood is directly compared with
Christ’s return and his judgement of all people
The Flood’s destruction was ____ for humanity and ____ in scope.
universal, global
The geologic record (including fossils) is a record of either
-recent creation and the Flood OR -Billions of years of life on Earth
2 questions for any model of the flood
-Where did the water come from? and -Where did it go?
The flood is essentially a
geologic/tectonic event
lithosphere
a group of mobile units (plates) composed of crust and upper mantle
Features that say continents have not always been in present location
-“fit” of continents -matching mountain chains across the Atlantic Ocean -similar fossils across Atlantic -matching geologic units across oceans -locations of earthquakes and volcanoes
evidence that ocean floor has moved over time
-ocean ridges -magnetic reversals recorded in ocean crust
ocean floor is ____ near the ridges and ___ near the continents
younger, older
Prior to Flood, existing continents were in ____ _____
different locations
Prior to flood, little tectonic activity
-no ocean ridges -no plate movements -no massive mountain chains -little or no earthquakes or volcanoes
Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) was first proposed by
creationist geologists in Austin (1994)
CPT envisions
rapid continental “sprint” during the Flood
CPT says Flood began with
subduction which created ocean ridges and cause continents to move at several MPH
2 sources of flood water in Genesis 7
-fountains of the great deep -windows of heaven
both sources in Genesis 7 were caused by
ocean ridges
4 ways water spread over the continent
-Geysers at ocean ridges vaporize water, then condense to form massive rains -Subduction drags continents downward (lets ocean water cover more of the continents) -Elevation of ocean floor b/c new crust is warmer than older crust (more water forced on continents) -Ocean water is warmed and expands (same amount of water takes up more space)
