Was Noah's Flood Global?

I am starting out this post today with a famous quote from Mark Twain.
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

The entire purpose of starting the post with this quote is to demonstrate the mindset that most people have when you confront them with facts about the bible and they totally dismiss what you say only because they have never heard the truth before. Most people believe that they know everything they need to know about Noah's flood, and will dismiss bible verses demonstrating that it was not global just because it does not line up with their preconceived notions that they have heard from others. This is especially true when you present evidence to show that Europeans are the descendants of the Israelites of the bible.

It is not my intention to recap the entire story of Noah's flood in this one post, but to only show the fallacy in the belief that the flood was a global event. I am only going to talk about it from a biblical point of view and may write another post from a practical point of view in the future.

One of the reasons why it is imperative to understand the flood and its magnitude is because churches are closing from the preaching that comes from behind the pulpit. Most cannot relate to such rhetoric and look at the bible as being a lot of fairy tales that have no importance in the "real world." I myself know of two churches that have closed locally in the last year because of this. I want to add that I have stated many times before online and off that I believe that both science and the bible are correct when the bible is correctly interpreted.

Misinterpretation of words.
The word earth comes from the Hebrew word "Ehrets" Strong's #776. There is no differentiation in the word earth for the amount of earth spoken of. For example, "Ehrets" can mean the entire planet, it can mean a local area like a countryside,or it can mean a real small piece of ground such as a 4'x4' plot of land. This in itself is a major error to automatically interpret this word as planet if this word is not put in proper perspective.

Another phrase mistakenly interpreted is the phrase "under the whole heaven" of Genesis 7:19 this may sound like a global flood, but in the bible this phrase often has been used to mean only a small part of the earth such as Deuteronomy 2:25. Probably the translator would have cause less confusion if he would have worded it to mean the water was as far as the eye could see in any direction.

Other than chasing down meanings of words are there any verses to support the idea that the flood was not global? Of course there is.
In chapters 10 and 11 of the Farrar Fenton bible gives the history of Noah's sons. Verse 5 of Chapter 10 tells of where they went after the flood. "From these they spread themselves over the sea-coasts of the countries of the nations, each with their language amongst the gentile nations."  and again in verses 31 and 32. "These are the sons of Shem, by their tribes and by their languages in their countries among the heathen. The above were the families of the sons of Noah, and their descendants, by tribes. From them they spread themselves amongst the nations on the earth after the Flood."

The location and purpose of the flood.
When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden according to Genesis 3:24 they were driven out of the garden to the East, which was the area where Noah was living. It is mentioned in Genesis that Eden was east of the Euphrates river, this is all fine and dandy except the Euphrates river was named after the original Euphrates river which today we call the Jaxartes river and is east of the Aral Sea in Asia North of India. Click Here for a better explanation if needed.

If Noah's flood was local then there would have to be a way of containing the flood like a bathtub for example, otherwise it would simply spill over and the flood would be a very large puddle. The area east of the Jaxartes river is called called Eastern Turkistan. Within this area is an area called the Tarim Basin. This area is landlocked and given a major flood water would not allow water to escape. This is no small area, as it is approximately 1000 miles long and 350 miles wide, so an Ark was definitely needed. The reason the Father had Noah build the ark was two fold, first because it was an act of faith, and second because the flood created an ecological barren area that needed to be replenished with animal life. Any Naysayers that think the Caucasian Adamites were never in Asia I would recommend the book "The Tarim Mummies." All mummified bodies recovered from that area were Caucasian Adamites.

Praise the Lord for his unchanging word!

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