Isn't God supposed to be everywhere at everytime?
Don't remember reading that. You're going to have to show me where that 'entity' states that in the text.
Don't remember reading that. You're going to have to show me where that 'entity' states that in the text.
How do you know this 'entity' was watching anything? How do you know there was no reason?
Hebrews 413 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Jeremiah 23
23 “Am I only a God nearby,”
declares the Lord,
“and not a God far away?
24 Who can hide in secret places
so that I cannot see them?”
declares the Lord.
“Do not I fill heaven and earth?”
declares the Lord.
Umm, hate to tell you, but the text doesn't state the whole world was flooded. Would you be willing to bet all your Coli cash that I'm mistaken?
I'd like to take you up on that offer. The text
does indicate that the whole earth was flooded. It's mostly revisionists who want to retain a literal reading of the flood that have demanded that the text be read as a narrative of a local flood. However, the author of Noah's flood makes it clear: the deluge was global.
The story doesn't say 'the Earth' to mean 'the whole world'. Let me show you what it actually states:
Genesis 7:6 (Leningrad Codex)
וְנֹ֕חַ בֶּן־שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֹ֖ות שָׁנָ֑ה וְהַמַּבּ֣וּל הָיָ֔ה מַ֖יִם עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
From right to left.....
And Noah - old - six - hundred - years - when the flood - came - of water - on -
the land (or earth)
The Hebrew word (pronounced erets) is read as land, countries, floor, ground, region, earth (as in ground). Had the author intended the whole world, he'd have used the word תֵּבֵל (tebel) which means the world as was done here:
Job 18:18 (Leningrad Codex)
יֶ֭הְדְּפֻהוּ מֵאֹ֣ור אֶל־חֹ֑שֶׁךְ וּֽמִתֵּבֵ֥ל יְנִדֻּֽהוּ׃
From right to left......
He shall be driven - from light - into - darkness - and out of the world - chased
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Not quite. That's a forced interpretation. The truth of it is that the Hebrew word for "earth" that you are disputing can clearly also be used to describe the whole earth, not just one's local environs. The clue to this isn't only in the known fact that the word has a multiplicity of meanings, but particularly in the context of how the word is used. Taken out of isolation and insrted back in the story, it's clear that story indicates a global flood. Here are some relevant parts from the story showing the author meant a global flood:
Genesis 6 17
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy
all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it.
19 You are to bring into the ark
two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. 20 Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive.
Just a quick commentary: As can be seen, there's little room for manouvering away from what is meant: all life under the heavens are going to be destroyed, except those saved by Noah. Notice it's clear that it is two of
every living creature. Not some, nor just the ones in Noah's local earth area
Finally:
Genesis 8
19 They rose greatly on the earth,
and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. 20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark..
Notice verse 19? It goes to some trouble to emphasise the covering of all the high mountains under the "entire" heavens. That's global.
Anything other than an allegorical reading of Noah's story will always lead to a global flood - if read in context.