The Genesis Flood in the New Testament

Although most professing Christians claim to believe the Bible, they obviously do not read it. Many are deceived by cults and scoffers. These Christians may think the Genesis Flood is a myth taken from other Eastern cultures. Why? Because smart people said so.

The appeal to authority is often fallacious (as seen above). It is legitimate to ask Christians what they do with the fact that the Flood is mentioned in other parts of the Old Testament. These references indicate judgment, as the Flood was a judgment. Then doubters also need to deal with the New Testament.

Ocean waves, RGBStock / rkirbycom

If they doubt the authority of the Old Testament, how about the fact that Jesus, Peter, Paul, and others referred to it? Not as an allegory, but as literal history. The Flood was a judgment, but also used as a reminder of the coming Judgment — there is no way it could have been a local event. Denying the Genesis Flood also denies history and also the authority of Scripture, and these people are inconsistent; they cherry-pick what they want to believe.

Many Bible skeptics regard Genesis 1–11 as mythical, copied from Enuma Elish, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other such ancient writings—so not only is it a primitive myth, it’s not a particularly original one, in their view. We’ve often written about the characteristics of Genesis that show it claims to record history.

Sadly, many believers have bought into various compromising interpretations of the Flood narrative, but as Christians, aren’t we supposed to believe what Jesus did? And it’s easy to extend that to believing what the apostles that He appointed and inspired by the Holy Spirit to author Scripture believed as well.

You can read the rest by following the link to "The global Flood—according to the New Testament."