Kenneth, you have always had a better overall historical sense about when global biblical events that we both agree occurred happened than I. To give an actual date of the global flood is more than I have been willing to do. Is your date based on “Bishop Usher’s work. I read all of Immanuel Velikovsky’s books years ago and I don’t remember now if he was even a believer but he felt compelled to try to explain biblical events such as the flood, Joshua’s long day and the darkness over the world when Christ was crucified by conventional ( non- miraculous) means because while his historical research indicated that these events happened he was not completely willing to hand them over to the hand of God. On the other hand, like the creation itself, there need not be a scientific explanation for the occurrence of these events. Another example is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Paraphrasing scripture “and the Lord rained down fire from the Lord in Heaven.” To now, explain what happened as a freak meteor storm is to rob the event of the agency and intent of God. So I’m torn between finding a “natural” explanation and just knowing that God did it. Chris Parker.
Hi Chris! I do not see any tension between God's agency in judging men historically in scripture and seeing natural events as the means by which those divine judgments were delivered. God created the world and controls the world. If the world flipped at the very moment that Joshua asked God for an extension of the day to finish defeating God's enemies, a natural explanation of what happened by no means diminishes the utter impossibility that such a natural event would randomly occur just at the very second Joshua asked for it.
True, we do not need scientific explanations to believe scripture. But when reconciling geological and recorded history with Scripture, there is nothing wrong in noticing that at the same time Joshua recorded the long day, three different cultures on different sides of the planet recorded that the sea level suddenly rose by about 100 feet.
Regarding the date of the Flood, yes, I do use the Ussher-Jones chronology of Floyd Nolan Jones:
And I also wrote this paper with Darrell White a few years ago, arguing that the ancient chroniclers from several different nations collectively agreed on the date of the Flood circa 2348 BC +/- 20 years.
Kenneth, you have always had a better overall historical sense about when global biblical events that we both agree occurred happened than I. To give an actual date of the global flood is more than I have been willing to do. Is your date based on “Bishop Usher’s work. I read all of Immanuel Velikovsky’s books years ago and I don’t remember now if he was even a believer but he felt compelled to try to explain biblical events such as the flood, Joshua’s long day and the darkness over the world when Christ was crucified by conventional ( non- miraculous) means because while his historical research indicated that these events happened he was not completely willing to hand them over to the hand of God. On the other hand, like the creation itself, there need not be a scientific explanation for the occurrence of these events. Another example is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Paraphrasing scripture “and the Lord rained down fire from the Lord in Heaven.” To now, explain what happened as a freak meteor storm is to rob the event of the agency and intent of God. So I’m torn between finding a “natural” explanation and just knowing that God did it. Chris Parker.
Hi Chris! I do not see any tension between God's agency in judging men historically in scripture and seeing natural events as the means by which those divine judgments were delivered. God created the world and controls the world. If the world flipped at the very moment that Joshua asked God for an extension of the day to finish defeating God's enemies, a natural explanation of what happened by no means diminishes the utter impossibility that such a natural event would randomly occur just at the very second Joshua asked for it.
True, we do not need scientific explanations to believe scripture. But when reconciling geological and recorded history with Scripture, there is nothing wrong in noticing that at the same time Joshua recorded the long day, three different cultures on different sides of the planet recorded that the sea level suddenly rose by about 100 feet.
Regarding the date of the Flood, yes, I do use the Ussher-Jones chronology of Floyd Nolan Jones:
https://www.floydnolenjonesministries.com/files/131144963.pdf
And I also wrote this paper with Darrell White a few years ago, arguing that the ancient chroniclers from several different nations collectively agreed on the date of the Flood circa 2348 BC +/- 20 years.
https://www.academia.edu/107266504/Chronological_Framework_of_Ancient_History_4_Dating_Creation_and_the_Deluge