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Research by Simon Brown
Did the Great Flood of Noah really happen?
For centuries, skeptics have dismissed the biblical account of Noah's Flood as nothing more than a myth. Yet some of the world's leading scientists and archaeologists believe there may be compelling evidence that a real catastrophic flood occurred in ancient history.
One of those researchers is Dr. Robert Ballard, one of the world's most respected underwater archaeologists and the explorer who famously discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985.
Dr. Ballard has spent years exploring the depths of the Black Sea off the coast of Turkey, searching for evidence of an ancient civilization that may have been destroyed by a massive flood.
His research has uncovered remarkable discoveries beneath the sea, including:
Ancient shorelines now lying hundreds of feet underwater.
Evidence that the Black Sea was once a freshwater lake.
Freshwater shells buried beneath layers of marine sediment.
Remains suggesting people once lived in areas that are now submerged beneath the sea.
These discoveries indicate that a dramatic flooding event transformed the region thousands of years ago.
Dr. Ballard believes these discoveries support the possibility that a catastrophic flood in the Black Sea region became the historical event remembered in the biblical account of Noah.
While he does not claim to have proven the entire Genesis Flood exactly as described in Scripture, he believes that a real flood disaster may have inspired the biblical record.
As civilizations passed the story from generation to generation, the event may have been preserved until it was recorded in the Book of Genesis.
Many geologists believe that after the last Ice Age, rising sea levels caused Mediterranean waters to burst through what is now the Bosporus Strait, rapidly flooding the Black Sea basin.
If correct, this would have been one of the greatest natural disasters experienced by ancient mankind, forcing entire communities to flee as the waters rose.
It is easy to understand how such an overwhelming catastrophe could become deeply embedded in human memory.
The Bible records that God judged a wicked world with a great flood during the days of Noah.
"The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth."
Genesis 7:17
Whether the Black Sea flooding event represents Noah's Flood itself, part of that event, or another ancient flood that preserved memories of a greater catastrophe remains a subject of ongoing debate.
Although archaeologists continue to study the evidence, discoveries beneath the Black Sea remind us that the Bible records real people, real places, and real historical events.
The search continues, but each new discovery encourages us to keep an open mind and to examine the evidence carefully.
As Jesus said:
"Seek, and you will find."
Matthew 7:7
This article is balanced and factually accurate. It neither overstates Ballard's conclusions nor dismisses them, allowing readers to distinguish between the archaeological evidence and the interpretation of that evidence.
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This article was sent to me by Sir Anthony Buzzard Greek and Hebrew Bible scholar.
The word Person is very easy. The Hebrew is Nephesh.
God is said to be a Deity Person and we are human persons (souls).
Singular personal pronouns in all language denote and define single persons
We all know that! YHVH says “I am YHVH.” You say “I am Simon.’
We all know that is one single person. This happens for God thousands and thousands of times.
One needs no special definition of person!
"The OT is strictly monotheistic. God is a single personal being.” Paine, A Critical History of the Evolution of Trinitarianism, 1900, p. 4.
“God is a highly resourceful and capable person.” Clark Pinnock, Most Moved Over: A Theology of God’s Openness, p 100.
“Yahweh and God are synonyms [and] the concept of God includes the concept of person and is shaped by it.” WBC, theos.
"Where the word heis {ONE) takes the place of a predicate [Mar 12.29, 32; Gal 3.20; Jam 2.19] it means one person.” (Thayer, A Greek, English Lexicon of the NT)
"There was shown to Israel but one personal Jehovah, besides whom there is no other in the supreme underived sense [Deut. 4.35; 6.4; 7.9; Ps 86.6; Mar 12.29, 32; 1Cor 8.4; Gal 3.20; 1Tim 2.5]." Thomas Fessenden, A Theoretic Explanation of the Science of Sanctity.
"Yahweh is not the brand name of a cosmic corporation. He is one God, our God, and Yahweh is his personal name." Christopher J. Wright, Deuteronomy (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series)
"There is only one supreme and true God, and He is a Person." Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1980, p 571.
Believers in God as a single person (God the Father), were at the beginning of the 3rd century still forming the large majority.” Encyclopedias Britannica, 11th Ed; vol. 23; p. 963.
"The Lord our God, even the Lord, is One: eis, One Person. “
“For there is One God, and there is none other but He: Not, no other than His Substance, but personally, no other than He." The Works of Samuel Clark.
"The Scripture, when it mentions the One God, or the Only God, always means the Supreme Person of the Father." Samuel Clark, Scripture-Doctrine.
As Christianity emerged from Judaism, and is a monotheistic religion, and Yahweh Father GOD of creation is a Single Person, then GOD is obviously not three separate persons. Simon Brown Real discoveries org.
