According to the researchers, "40 km3 (10 cu mi) of water poured through each day, two hundred times the flow of the Niagara Falls... The Bosphorus flume roared and surged at full spate for at least three hundred days."

^^ crazy

The Early Church (for the New Testament) just included the books written by the actual apostles of Christ, which was a pretty common sense thing to do. Not some big conspiracy. The Old Testament had been closed canon since 400 B.C. So there was nothing to discuss/include/exclude with respect to the OT.

The Council of Nicea had virtually nothing to do with what was going to be considered God breathed Scripture in the NT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

There are NO "secret" Gospels out there. Never was. Certainly not anything actually written by the Apostles.

We believe researchers and believe a guy says a rock is 300 billion years old without question, but don't believe the bible.

Anyone ever wondered what God was doing before he made the universe?

Debate on Noah's Ark-long but interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6kgvhG3AkI

carbon dating isn't exactly shaking the rock and seeing how old it feels.

Putting a plan together for the creation of Aldeer.

But it's not much more than that.

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yeah, all that science hogwash. we don't need that crap.

You read from Genesis and it tells of the floods for 40 days and nights if you really set down and think about it if it rains for 5 days there are usually widespread flooding .
So can you imagine the flooding from 40 days and nights ....it tells the earth was flooded for 150 days , that is alot of water that fell over those 40 days . I believe in the word of God and have no reason to dispute it , God is love but he can also bring his rath , he closed the door on the Ark and judgement began .

Our pastor at a previous church explained his theory to us about the flood once: He said that the reason that people lived so long before the flood, because there was this vapor that covered the entire globe and protected us from the sun. When the flood came, all that vapor condensed and rained down on the earth. Thus the flood and thus the end of the 900 year life span.

No doubt it's science, but it's not very reliable science. There are too many anomalies for carbon dating to be used as the sole source for dating something.

the pea river in elba getting up is a little different caliber of water.

for the ocean to rise only 1" is trillions and trillions of gallons of water. For it to get over 29,029 ft Mount Everest is a whole lot of water.

The Bible also explains that it came out of the ground, as well.

y'all keep up this blasphemy and the easter bunny aint gonna come see you

Goodman I look at this as more of a learning experience.

X2 for me!! You nailed it right on the head!!!

Off the subject just a bit, I've heard all the arguments FOR the death penalty.
Not just the eye for an eye stuff in the Old Testament.



In the New Testament:

Jesus seemed to allude to it being lawful to the crooks on either side of him while they were hanging there dying.

When Paul was on trial and pleading his case, he said that he didn't mind being put to death if he was really guilty. This is evidence that it was legal then.

The Bible also teaches that it's Gods' will that we submit to the authority of our governments. Some governments mandate a death penalty.



As a fallible human, I want REVENGE on certain criminals. Anyone who says it's not at least some form of bloodlust is not being intellectually honest. I have it,too.

I want some folks to get their just desserts. I want 'em DEAD too.

The ONLY reason I DON'T and CAN'T support the death penalty is because I don't think Jesus Christ would have any part of it. I don't think he would "throw the switch. If he ain't doing it, I ain't doing it.

The ONLY reason I WOULD take a life would be in the split second self defense situation or the defense of others in that same scenario. I would run away if I could if it were only ME in danger.

I sin every cotton picking day, but this is a permanent act that you can't undo. That person will never have the opportunity to repent ever again.

I'm a man of many contradictions, I know. But hey, that's what I believe.

I might add that wikipendia is a very poor source. I can go in an edit Yekrut created the universe and trox is a Mexican In that subject

problem with that is not all coastal areas are flat, i.e. the Himalayan region where people have lived in the mountains for thousands of years before The Great Flood.