Where In The Bible Will I Find:

The Genesis Flood Covering The Entire Earth?

Our Lord said, "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be" (Matt. 24:38-39).

Here the destruction, which is to come upon wicked men, at the last day, is compared to that which befell their ancient counterparts, thus necessitating an area of equal extent, in the administration of

judgment. Similarly, Peter indicated the world wide extent of the flood in a comparable allusion when he said, "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men" (II Peter 3:5-7).

Therefore, the world being overflowed with water, an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, obviously, including the whole of it. It was to the fact that Peter appealed in his argument of another catastrophe equal in extent yet to come, the destruction of wicked men. If the flood embraced only a small portion of the earth, and included but few people, comparably speaking, the apostle's parallel utterly fails.

Too, if the waters were limited to a small area of Western Asia, why was it necessary to construct the ark in the first place? Could not Noah, and his family, simply have departed that place for lands beyond the reach of the rising waters? They had ample time both to plan and to set forth on such a journey, since warnings of the flood came to them many years earlier. Why did not all the people proceed over the Caucasian mountains to safety if the flood embraced no more than a small area in the Mesopotamian valley?

Animals instinctively move to higher ground as waters rise; why was it necessary to take them into the ark if the flood was local? Could not the birds have easily and quickly flown to drier regions when the rains began? Does not the huge size of the ark lead logically to the concept of a universal flood? It had a capacity of at least a million and a half cubic feet, the equivalent of more than five hundred single-decked railroad cattle cars.

Are we to suppose that Noah and his sons built a vessel of this size to cross a small valley inundated by a local flood? It is not possible to believe the Bible, and accept the concept of a local, limited flood of waters. Those who thus do have taken leave of faith, and rely on fallacious reasoning, for their conclusions. Yes, the Genesis flood was world-wide; it covered the entire earth.