Would Noah's flood actually be possible?

@Lostpoet If the world was once a giant snow ball that suggests it's position in orbit around the sun has changed from where it is now and that the planetary 'wobble' that causes the seasons and is controlled by gravity of the moon has undergone some drastic variations. Maybe asteroid hits.

@zonavar68 Nope I think it was just natural events that caused the last Snow ball Earth you can Google it.

@Lostpoet Well, of course it was a natural event but the rather lyrical term "snowball" means only the planet's seas and atmosphere were far colder than now. There was a similar amount of water on it as now, so when the much of the land was covered in ice, the sea-level was correspondingly low.

On the other hand, when the Earth's overall climate was a lot warmer, there was far less terrestrial ice so the seas were higher - at maximum well over 100m higher than present level - covering a lot of land but by no means all of it.

There was never enough water on Earth to have covered all the land.

By its own history's standards the Earth is relatively cool at the moment, and we are still in Ice Age - a period of alternating cold and warm phases. Although whether we are in an interglacial (albeit one presently being accelerated artificially) or seeing the end of the Ice Age completely, only time will tell.

@ArishMell The model used when Genesis was written when the Earth was thought Flat. . What is written there must be seen in that paradigm.

However that does not preclude the existence of a localised flood, which to the people of the day would be considered a flood of the whole known world.

The Gilgamesh tablets record events of 4000BC in Assyria and suggest a major flooding, similar to one recorded in Genesis much later.

In the modern day, the people of Bangladesh would see their entire world flooded from their perspective.

Genesis is not a History or Scientific Textbook, and should not be treated as one. However the stories contained have immense theological significance.

@peterlee Thankyoufor explaining the history.

I Ihave always regarded the Old Testament stories as pure parables; but with quite definite purposes for their authors..

@ArishMell I would presume that the 'world' as defined by an ancient being is a lot different to what we know the 'world' to be today. That includes the ancient being commonly referred to as Iesus Yeshua.

@zonavar68 One year. It rained for 40 days and nights, but they were adrift for a year before the dove brought back the olive branch.

@Zaphod42
That 1.5 million years of rain was a shitte post from Donald Trump's early ancestors.