Was the flood a worldwide flood or a flood of the known world?

[Amigo42]

This is just food for thought, but what do you all think?  When the Bible says that the flood was worldwide was it referring to the known world at that time or literally the entire world?  If the entire world, then what purpose since humans only inhabited a relatively small region at that time?  To them, this was the entire world that had flooded because they didn't know anything else.  What do you all think?

[Guest kingdombrat]

36 minutes ago, Amigo42 said:

This is just food for thought, but what do you all think?  When the Bible says that the flood was worldwide was it referring to the known world at that time or literally the entire world?  If the entire world, then what purpose since humans only inhabited a relatively small region at that time?  To them, this was the entire world that had flooded because they didn't know anything else.  What do you all think?

If we consider the facts that Cultures like Ancient Asian world [not connected to Mesopotamia], the Ancient Native American world [not connected to Mesopotamia], and many other Ancient Cultures [not connected to Mesopotamia] have a [TALE] passed down from Generations to Generations about Real Giants and then the skies opened up rain and it rained until ALL LIFE was dead [especially these Giants].   I believe we can conclude it was literally worldwide.

[Amigo42]

1 hour ago, kingdombrat said:

If we consider the facts that Cultures like Ancient Asian world [not connected to Mesopotamia], the Ancient Native American world [not connected to Mesopotamia], and many other Ancient Cultures [not connected to Mesopotamia] have a [TALE] passed down from Generations to Generations about Real Giants and then the skies opened up rain and it rained until ALL LIFE was dead [especially these Giants].   I believe we can conclude it was literally worldwide.

Good point.  However, scientists believe the entire world was one land mass at one point called pangea, so even though those areas aren't connected now, maybe at one point they were.

[missmuffet]

The flood was world wide. 

[Wayne222]

The flood was worldwide in my view. But we know everyone perish including all life. Now if it was only the know world then God would not have to ncluded all forms of life to be brought to the ark. Thats just my view.

[Guest kingdombrat]

1 hour ago, Amigo42 said:

Good point.  However, scientists believe the entire world was one land mass at one point called pangea, so even though those areas aren't connected now, maybe at one point they were.

Ahhhh yes, Pangea, platonic movement.   That would be interesting if before the Flood the Landmass appeared as a single continent, and as one cause of the Flood, the single Continent became our current state.   The Flood would have nothing to do with Platonic Movement, but if God created weak points within the single continent, a mass Flood could cause separation in Theory. 

[teddyv]

44 minutes ago, kingdombrat said:

Ahhhh yes, Pangea, platonic movement.   That would be interesting if before the Flood the Landmass appeared as a single continent, and as one cause of the Flood, the single Continent became our current state.   The Flood would have nothing to do with Platonic Movement, but if God created weak points within the single continent, a mass Flood could cause separation in Theory. 

"Platonic movement" That's much better than Plate Tectonics.

[Guest kingdombrat]

48 minutes ago, teddyv said:

"Platonic movement" That's much better than Plate Tectonics.

 

Yeah sometimes I just convert a title into what we know is happening lol  [plates moving = platonic movement] 

[johnthebaptist]

6 hours ago, Amigo42 said:

This is just food for thought, but what do you all think?  When the Bible says that the flood was worldwide was it referring to the known world at that time or literally the entire world?  If the entire world, then what purpose since humans only inhabited a relatively small region at that time?  To them, this was the entire world that had flooded because they didn't know anything else.  What do you all think?

Without going back over it, it sounded to me like it was over the whole earth.

[Who me]

7 hours ago, Amigo42 said:

This is just food for thought, but what do you all think?  When the Bible says that the flood was worldwide was it referring to the known world at that time or literally the entire world?  If the entire world, then what purpose since humans only inhabited a relatively small region at that time?  To them, this was the entire world that had flooded because they didn't know anything else.  What do you all think?

 

The bible say it was the whole world.

The bible also says the the world will be destroyed, is this destruction of the the whole world or just part of it.

Ones interpretation of the bible has to be consistent, either they both refer to the whole world or they both refer to only part of the world being destroyed.