Beyond Genesis: Man's True Origin Revealed by Allen Epling

Author:Allen Epling [Epling, Allen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E & E Publishing Co.
Published: 2017-05-16T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven: Eden, The Place of The Flood

Eden and The Area of The Flood

There are two possible explanations for how the flood of Noah happened. One has to do with the flooding of the Black Sea area when the Bosporus Strait broke through letting the waters of the Mediterranean flooding the huge existing basin. The other concerns evidence that was just recently found on the floor of the Indian Ocean that suggests that a comet impacted in that area around 5000 years ago, the exact time as recorded in the book of Genesis for Noah’s flood.

The impact of the comet and the resulting tsunami that went around the world could have been responsible for the flooding of the Black Sea area also. If the dating of the flooding of the Black Sea were to coincide with the impact of a comet in the southern Indian Ocean, then the two theories would fit together perfectly. However, dating of the Black Sea flood is around 7000 years ago, too early to be Noah’s flood. Its possible that some future dating method could revise that and change the outcome.

As was explained earlier, the word translated as “the whole Earth” or “the World” in Genesis 7 concerning the extent of the destruction of the flood, was the Hebrew word “Erets”, which really means “the ground” or “a large area of ground”. The description of the “World” or “Earth” in these passages should have been interpreted to describe only the large area around the huge basin that later became the Black Sea.

If we accept that this text is describing a smaller area than the WHOLE Earth, then the statement in Genesis 2:5 makes more sense. The meaning of the text should be interpreted that in that particular area the ground (earth) was dry because there had been no rain. This matches perfectly the environment of that area just after the glaciers of the ice age had retreated, around 6000 to 7000 years ago. There is overwhelming evidence of weather and rain over other parts of the Earth before 6000 BC.

The weather was actually very dry in this specific area, southern Europe, because so much water was still trapped in the form of ice in glaciers and the polar caps. In this immediate area the weather had created a unique environment. The 200 mile wide basin was a desert except for a small, freshwater lake in its center. Around the shores of this lake was vegetation which thrived on the fresh water and rich soil.

Genesis 2:5 says that it had not yet rained on the Earth. If this area was truly a dry climate with no rain, it would explain how the basin we now call the Black Sea remained dry except for a small lake in its center. It would seem that some cataclysmic event changed both the terrain and the climate after the flood because Genesis tells us that the first rainbow ever seen by man was seen by Noah and his family after they left the ark.

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