The Flood of Noah’s Time
by Carl Olof Jonsson
by Carl Olof Jonsson
A question that arises for some is with regard to the Genesis account of the Noachian flood. Some are disturbed by claims that ancient Mesopotamian documents give a chronology that would extend the history of the population of that region much farther back than the allowable amount of time of the Noachian flood which Scripture evidently places in the third or fourth millennium BCE. Others are in doubt due to the question of the extent of that flood, whether or not it was a global flood affecting the entire planet. A major point advanced as indicating otherwise is the fact that certain species of animals, (as one example among several, the kangaroo), are found only in isolated parts of the planet, both as to living creatures and fossils of such creatures found in the earth. Similarly, if a global deluge occurred with vast amounts of water covering the entire planet, it seems difficult to understand how the same rivers described as existing in the region previous to the flood were still there afterward, apparently unaffected. (Genesis 2:10-14.) Perhaps more significant is that the purpose of the flood is shown to have been God’s decision to put a halt to the rampant wickedness proliferating among the human race. That raises the question, what purpose would there be in annihilating all the animals and bird life in the vast unpopulated areas of earth since these creatures had nothing to do with the human wickedness carried on in the region where Noah lived?
We here present some information that may prove helpful on both these issues, and which serves to confirm the historicity and reliability of the Scriptural account.
(As to the evidence of chronology, the following information is provided through the research of Carl Olof Jonsson, Göteborg, Sweden, 2001 and is copyrighted by him.)