So what? Biblically the descendants of Noah are the HebrewsAs I said, Noah was not a Hebrew and no doubt did not live in Palestine, so a local catastrophic flood would not have to be in Palestine to be real for Noah.
Then you are concluding the Bible is not accurate as inspired by God and not human knowledge as what the "world" represents in scripture. This conflicts with your unfounded belief that the catastrophic floods locally around the world represent the world flood. This is again flawed, because NONE of the floods occurred at the same time, especially the Ice Age floods that occurred over 11,000 years ago.When the New Testament says the world that then was, was destroyed with the flood, it can mean the known world and people, and not necessarily the entire globe, which was not even a thing in the mind of the writers of both the New and Old Testaments.
But yes, Jesus and his disciples confirm Noah and the flood.
Actually Psalm 104:5-9 seems to be saying that after the earth was made with water covering it and God made the dry land appear, that the water that initially covered the earth never did that again and will never. So the Bible itself tells us that the flood was not a global one.
The problem we have with the flood is that we don't know exactly when it happened. I hear that generations are missed entirely in the genealogies of the time in the Bible and so it cannot be worked out that way. So there is a chance that catastrophic floods related to the ice age happened at the same time. Whether that is needed for the local Noah's flood to be valid Biblically, I don't know, but it is a possibility.
I don't see the floods as having destroyed all life on the whole globe however.
Well not a global flood anyway.
The knowledge of what the "world" was at the time the Jesus Christ was very vast including Asia, Europe and Africa, and it was described as 'world flood' even if it was from the human perspective.
I accept that other flood stories in that ancient culture are probably memories of the same flood.
The OT testimony as I said, actually denies a global flood (Psalm 104) and the flood story in Genesis can be legitimately translated as a large local flood that flooded the whole land and all the animals and people in the land were killed and covered all the high hills (and these hills I am told could have even been ziguratts)
It is documented by the factual evidence that the local catastrophic flood did not occur at the same time. The Ice Age glacial floods occurred over 11,000 years ago.
There is no independent objectively verifiable evidence documenting this. The Biblical record cannot be independently verified. The factual evidence is extremely well documented. Camels arrived in Palestine with the copper trade in 900 BCE.The documentation of the Bible is evidence that camels were used by traders and that rich people had camels. Abraham got his camels from the King of Egypt.
The evidence IS NOT seen as valid in the other ancient cultural writings unless independently verified. Can you provide an example of the content of ancient writings of cultures considered as factual without independent scientific and archaeology documentation?So why isn't that evidence seen as valid if recorded histories of other cultures are seen as evidence?
What Tel Aviv University found seems to have been a large scale use of camels in one place. The Bible is talking about nomads with small scale operations and who did not leave huge grave yards of bones.
The whole idea that the Tel Avid study refutes what the Bible says is rubbish.
"Seems to." This is a vague unfounded basis for assumptions of the Tel Aviv research. The research takes this into consideration. The archaeological evidence is specific in documenting the camels due to the copper trade, and this includes trade with Egypt regardless of scale.
You have failed to provide independent documentation of camels present in Palestine before 900 BCE
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