Noah's Flood: Did It Really Happen

The story of Noah's Flood in the book of Genesis is astounding. Can we find evidence that it happened?

By Bill Jahns

According to the Bible, Noah’s Flood was both universal and catastrophic, resulting in the wholesale destruction of both human and animal life on the earth. But is it possible that it really happened? Can we find evidence?

In considering this question, let’s begin with the Bible itself and briefly review the account of the Flood: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened” (Genesis 7:11). Notice this important fact: The source of the water was
both the atmosphere (“windows of heaven”) and subterranean water (“fountains of the great deep”).

The Genesis account, then, indicates that much of the water came from inside the earth. Even today large underground reservoirs of water and a surprising number of underground streams exist throughout the earth. But in the pre-Flood world these were likely even more common.

What is meant by the terminology, “the fountains of the great deep were broken up” ?; The Bible Knowledge Commentary states regarding Genesis 7:11: “. . . There were corresponding gigantic upheavals and shiftings of the earth’s crust which caused the oceans’ floors to rise and break up their reservoirs of subterranean waters.”

This comment about the “fountains of the deep” being broken up indicates that there were tremendous movements of land—possibly even continents—likely causing massive volcanic eruptions, too.

Read the full article at www.gnmagazine.org/issues/gn46/noahsflood.htm

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