Transcript Influence And Examples Through The Stages Of Life

Matt 27:37-39
(Lk 17:26-27)
Heb 11:7
1 Pet 3:20
2 Pet 2:5
Trusting God’s Record
of the Flood
(Genesis 6-9)
Was the Ark big enough?
Genesis 6:19-21
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“Kind” (min) not species
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kingdom, phylum, class, order, family,
genus, species
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450 ft. long, 75 ft. wide, 45 ft. tall
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95,000 sq. ft.
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20+ basketball courts
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522 railroad box cars
Was the window big enough?
Genesis 6:16
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“tsohar” (used only once)
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Gesenius – “light” (ASV)
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RSV, NIV, ESV – “roof”
Genesis 8:6
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challown (standard word for “window”
Gen 26:8; Josh 2:18).
How many animals?
Genesis 6:19; 7:2-3
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“2 of every sort”; “2 each of unclean”;
“7 each of clean”
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7 pairs or 7 of each? “Shibb’ah, Shibb’ah”
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KJV – “by sevens”
ASV – “seven & seven”
RSV, NEB, ESV – “seven pairs”
For sacrifices to God (Gen 8:20)
The Mountains of Ararat?
Genesis 8:4
Synecdoche:
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A whole for the part
A part for the whole
Time for time period
Singular for plural
Plural for singular
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Examples: Gen 21:7; Matt 27:44; Lk 23:39
Where did the water go?
Genesis 8:1-3
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“God made a wind to pass over the
earth, & the waters subsided”
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Shakak – to weave (i.e. lay) a trap;
figuratively, (through the idea of secreting) to
allay (abate a flood).
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A growing water reservoir beneath Eastern
Asia…the volume of the Arctic Ocean.
How much water required?
Genesis 7:20
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Not as much as some might think.
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Mountains lower and valleys shallower
The flood changed Earth’s topography.
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2 Peter 3:3-6 – “the world…perished”
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Psalm 104:5-9 – “mountains rose…valleys
sank”
Trusting God’s
Record of the Flood
There are logical, rational, scientific,
and Biblical answers to arguments
made by skeptics of the Bible.