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Finding that the Genesis Flood was not global

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  “ And so to another question: where did the dove find a thriving olive tree if “every hill” was covered? If the flood was local, the olive trees on the slopes of Ararat may have been left undrowned. But if it were global, would that have been possible? ”.   Retired Baptist minister and Cambridge scholar, Rev Dr David Instone-Brewer , tells of his awakening to the likelihood that the Genesis Flood could not have been a global phenomenon: Why Noah's flood may not have been global | Regular Columnists | Premier Christianity   Why Noah's flood may not have been global By  Rev Dr David Instone-Brewer 26 November 2021 ….   Was it a global flood, or local flood? David Instone-Brewer explains why he (reluctantly) changed his mind   I’ve been getting a lot of heat online for saying something that I used to dismiss as heresy. Years ago, I rejected theories questioning a global flood, and then I became less certain. Lately, as I’ve lo...
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Isaiah fleeing from God and kings

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     “Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them”.   Amos 9:3       Introduction   Charles Boutfllower, in his 1930 classic, The Book of Isaiah, Chapters [I-XXXIX] in the light of the Assyrian monuments , would liken the prophet Isaiah, in his care of Immanuel, to the “Everlasting Father” (Chapter V: Immanuel): “Both Isaiah and his son Immanuel were types of Christ. Isaiah typifies Christ as the “Everlasting Father” of His people. Compare Isa. viii. 18 with Heb. ii. 13”.   Similarly, Saint Joseph in the New Testament, typifies God the Father, while Jesus is God the Son, and Mary, the created Immaculate Conception, mirrors the Holy Spirit, the un-created Immaculate Conception (St. Maximilian Kolbe): Maximilian Kolbe and the Immaculate Conception — School of Faith   St Maximilian was captivated by the fact that at Lourdes...
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Ezekiel’s hair-raising flights

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     “He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated”.   Ezekiel 8:3   “Then the angel of the Lord took [Habakkuk] by the crown of his head and carried him by his hair; with the speed of the wind he set him down in Babylon, right over the [lions’] den”.   Daniel 14:36   1.     First Identifications of Ezekiel   Until recently, I thought that I may have correctly identified Habakkuk as the prophet Job, whom I had previously, and most confidently, identified as Tobias, son of Tobit. For one , the books of Job and Habakkuk are often compared as to their subject matter. Here is a good example of this from Taylor Yoder (Feb 14, 2026): Job and...
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