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Genesis 8
4 Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.6 So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made. 7 Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters had dried up from the earth. 8 He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. 9 But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned into the ark to him, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and drew her into the ark to himself.

You can see that the account of the gradual receding of the flood waters and the ark coming to rest on the mountain ranges of Ararat yet the face of the whole earth was said to still be covered. The whole world in that regard was not the exposed high country and mountain tops.

God sends a prophet to a wicked world before he condemns them we see this pattern over and over again in the bible. Noah was one such prophet who preached righteousness to the wicked world he lived in so the flood did accomplish Gods will and that was to destroy the wicked system that thrived in Noah's day.

An interesting dialogue between God and Job is found in the Bible where God expresses his omnipotence and questions man on his ability.

38 Job
Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?3 Now prepare yourself like a man;I will question you, and you shall answer Me.4 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?

We have further information regarding this creation of the world in Psalms again no so favourable to a global flood post Genesis 1.

Psalm 104
He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
7 But at your rebuke the waters fled,at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
8 they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys,to the place you assigned for them.
9 You set a boundary they cannot cross;never again will they cover the earth.


The language used regarding the Genesis flood event read in its entirety does not hold to a Noachian global flood nor many explicit and implicit passages that militates against such a position.

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