> wgroom <wgr...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:14e3fbda-eb65-4b7a-a186-
> 7ad210944...@hv4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com:
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> > The catastrophic destruction of men and animals by an overwhelming
> > all human history was sent by Jehovah because wicked men had filled
> > family, eight souls in all, together with selected animals, was by
> > means of a huge ark, or chest.-----Ge 6:9-19; 1Pet 3:20; See ARK No.
> > 1; NOAH No. 1
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> > used in the Bible to refer to the Flood, or Deluge, is 'ka-ta-kly-
> > manner of days; this one lasted over a year, the greater portion of
> > believe Noah spent perhaps 50 or 60 years building a huge vessel of
> > approximately 40,000 cu m (1,400,000 cu ft) for the survival of his
> > comparatively small area was affected, why the need of bringing into
> > the ark specimens of "every living creature of every sort of flesh: in
> > order to "preserve offspring alive on the surface of the entire
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> > overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains that were
> > m; 22 ft] the waters overwhelmed them and the mountains became
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> > in which the breath of the force of life was active in its nostrils,
> > namely, all that were on the dry ground, died....only Noah and those
> > who were with him in the ark kept on surviving."--- Ge 6:13; 7:4, 22,
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> > Deluge
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> > spent building the ark, time that Noah the "preacher of righteousness:
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> > time limit was up "in the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the
> > female of every sort of flesh" ad been brought into the ark with
> > Noah's family, as well as a sufficient food supply for all, and "after
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> > for "forty days and forty nights" ; "the waters continued overwhelming
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> > after the downpour began, the ark "came to a rest on the mountains of
> > Ararat." (ge 8:5), another three months before Noah removed the ark's
> > covering to see that the earth had practically drained (Ge 8:13), and
> > nearly two months later when the door was opened and the survivors set
> > foot on dry ground again.---Ge 8:14-18.
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> > Noah and his family entered the ark in the 600th year of Noah's life,
> > later (a year consisting of 360 days) was the 17th day, 2nd month,
> > month, when they came out; a total of 370 days, or parts of 371
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> > kept, it appears he used months of 30 days each,12 of them equaling
> > involved had he used strictly a lunar months consisting of slightly
> > account is evident from the fact that a five-month period consisted of
> > 150 days.---Ge 7:11, 24; 8: 3,4.
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> > It has been said that if all the moisture in the atmosphere were
> > suddenly released as rain it would not amount to even a couple of
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> > said to Noah: "Here I [Jehovah] am bringing the deluge [or, "heavenly
> > ocean"; Heb., mab.bul'] of waters upon the earth." (Ge 6:17, ftn).
> > the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the
> > "all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be
> > covered." -- Ge 7:19
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> > creation tells how on the second "day" Jehovah made an expanse about
> > the earth , and this expanse (called "Heaven") formed a division
> > between the waters below it, that is, the oceans, and the waters above
> > remained there from the second "day" of creation until the Flood.
> > This is what the apostle Peter was talking about when he recounted
> > that there "were a heavens from of old and earth standing compactly
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> > "heavens" and the waters above and beneath them were the means that
> > God's word called into operation, and "by those means the world at
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> > was held aloft until the Flood and as to the processes that resulted
> > could easily accomplish it.
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> > Since, as the Genesis account says, "all the tall mountains" were
> > the oceans were smaller and the continents were larger than they are
> > now, as is evidenced by river channels extending far out under the
> > mountains in the past were much lower than at present, and some
> > situation, it is said that "there is ten times as much water by volume
> > evenly into the sea, and water would cover the earth, one and a half
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> > the floodwaters fell, but before the raising of mountains and the
> > lowering of seabeds and before the builldup of polar ice caps, there
> > was more than enough water to cover "all the mountains," as the
> > inspired record says.--- Gen 7:19.
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> > Effect On The Earth
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> > With the Deluge great changes came, for example, the life span of
> > Flood the waters above the expanse shielded out some of the harmful
> > radiation and that, with the waters gone, cosmic radiation generally
> > rate of formation of radioactive carbon-14 to such an extent as to
> > invalidate all radiocarbon dates prior to the Flood.
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> > With the sudden opening of the 'springs of the watery deep' and "the
> > floodgagtes of the heavens," untold billions of tons of water deluged
> > 30 km [20 mi] and 160 km [100 mi] thick, stretched over a rather
> > added weight of the water, there was likely a great shifting in the
> > mountains rose to new heights, shallow sea basins were deepened, and
> > new shorelines were established, with the result that now about 70
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> > earth's crust may account for many of the geological phenomena, such
> > estimated by some that water pressures alone were equal to "2 tons per
> > square inch," sufficient to fossilize fuana and flora quickly.--See
> > The Biblical Flood And Ice Epoch, by D. Patten, 1966, p. 62
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> > global deluge)?
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> > rhinoceroses have been found in different parts of the earth. Some
> > were found in Siberian cliffs; others were preserved in Siberian and
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> > food undigested in their stomachs or still unchewed in their teeth,
> > fossil remains of many other animals, such as lions, tigers, bears,
> > and elk, have been found in common strata, which may indicate that all
> > finds as definite physical proof of a rapid change in climate and and
> > explanations for death of these animals that do not involve an earth-
> > such fossils and frozen animal remains.
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> > Such a cataclysm as the Deluge, which washed the whole world of that
> > time out of existence, would never be forgotten by the survivors.
> > They would talk about it to their grandchildren and their childrens'
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> > the Flood, when God-defying people build the Tower of Babel, Jehovah
> > confused their language and scattered them "over all the surface of
> > with them stories of the Flood and passed them on from father to son.
> > The fact that there are not merely a few but perhaps hundreds of
> > different stories about that great Deluge, and that such stories are
> > found among the traditions of many primitive races the world over, is
> > a strong proof that all these peoples had a common origin and that
> > their early forefathers shared that Flood experience in common.---
> > CHART, Vol. 1, p. 328
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> > These folklore accounts of the Deluge agree with major features of the
> > Biblical account: (1) a place of refuge for a few survivors, (2) an
> > otherwise global destruction of life by water, and (3) a seed of
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> > of Britain, the Polynesians, the Eskimos and Greenlanders, the
> > Africans, the Hindus, and the American Indians----all of these have
> > (Vol. 2, p. 319 states: "Flood stories have been discovered among
> > mainland and the islands immediately south of it and on the North
> > American continent, they have been found on all the continents.
> > Totals of the number of stories known run as high as 270.....The
> > universalality of the flood accounts is usually taken as evidence for
> > the universal destruction of humanity by a flood and the spread of the
> > traditions may not all refer to the same flood, apparently the vast
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> > contacts from missionaries will not stand jup because most of them
> > were gathered by anthropologists not interested in vindicating the
> > Bible, and they are filled with fanciful and pagan elements evidently
> > the result of transmission for extended periods of time in a pagan
> > people very much in opposition to the Hebrew-Christian tradition."---
> > Edited by G. Bromiley, 1982.
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> > In times past, certain primitive people (in Australia, Egypt, Fiji,
> > Society Islands, Peru, Mexico, and other places) preserved a possible
> > remnant of these traditions about the Flood by observing in November a
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> > to the book Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, the festival of Mexico
> > was held on the 17th of November because they "had a tradition that at
> > that time the world had previously been destroyed; and they dreaded
> > lest a similar catastrophe would, at the end of a cycle, annihilate
> > festival [of the dead] is.... held by all or about on which, according
> > to the Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth
> > day of the second month---the month nearly corresponding to our
> > Bible reports that the flood began "in the second month , on the
> > corresponds to the latter part of October and the first part of
> > November on our calendar.
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> > Confirmation
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> > Stronger evidence of the historicalness of the Deluge than the pagan
> > traditions of primitive people is the endorsement other Bible writers
> > word (mab.bul', deluge) occus outside the Genesis account is in
> > David's melody where he describes Jehovas as seated "upon the
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> > draws heavily upon the Deluge account in his letters. (1Pet 3:20; 2Pe
> > 2:5; 3:5,6) Paul testifies to the great faith Noah displayed in
> > constructing the ark for the survival of his household (Heb 11:7)
> > Luke lists Noah in the lineage of Messiah's forebearers-- Luke 3:36
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> > Even more significant is what Jesus said about the days of the Deluge
> > endorsement of the veracity of the Deluge account, Jesus' words show
> > answer to the disciples' question, "What will be the sign of your
> > before the flood drinking, men marrying and women being given in
> > marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took
> > no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence
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> > is, therefore, abundant, evidence from the inspired Holy Scriptures
> > themselves to support the authenticity and genuineness of the Deluge
> > of primitive people, or on geologic and archaelogicial findings.
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> > Insight On The Scriptures, pgs. 609-12
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> Does the WTS know of your plagiarism?
>
> --
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> "These clowns are all Jokers!" - Rasta Khan
Why don't you tell them it was purely copied and not plagarized and
pass it to the ends of the earth?? LOL.
wg
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