mark wilkinson Supporter retired school teacher and missionary

According to Luke (3:36-38) the Noachan Flood took place in the 10th generation after Adam, who was at the beginning of Creation (Mark 10:6). If we compute the ages of people given in Genesis 5 we see that the Flood took place 1656 years after Creation, the year that Methuselah died. 

After the Flood Noah's sons lived long enough to overlap with Abraham and Isaac. Isaac was 110 years old when Shem died. The Flood was thus about 2,500 years BC.

These dates are of course scorned by uniformitarians - geologists who believe in gradualism and evolutionists who need millions of years for life to 'progress' from microbes to man. Honest science however shows that the earth is young - thousands not millions of years old - so we do not need to doubt the history of the Flood as given to us by God in His Word, the Bible.

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Tim Ranck Supporter

Approximately 4500yrs ago. A google image search for a biblical genealogy chart can put a nice picture on a few chapers of the bible that are difficult to read.

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Janos Simon Supporter

I am a Christian, but, honestly, I cannot ignore science. (Forgive my English, not my native tongue.) 

About twelve thousands years ago the Sahara still was habitable for many animals and people – bones found there anyway. The landscape was more green in the fertile crescent and in the valley of Euphrates and its neighborhood. 

The African animals were still more abundant there, than today. With the melting of the ice lots of water rushed down from the north from the Caucasian areas. I think the flood was a local event recorded even in Gilgamesh. 

Even the bible indicates, for God a year like a thousand for a man. Also for the age of the Earth there is something you cannot overlook. There are radioactive atoms for which we know its half life. These radioactive atoms came from formerly exploded stars. There is no magic in this, at all. If we reject radioactivity and half life, then science is just hokuspokus – which I don’t think so. 

No one can say the flood took place at a given date, when written history is not even 4000 years old. Spoken history bear many truth, just think about the Greek legend that became fact, like the palace of Knossos or Troy. 

For the Flood, I think, the answer relies in the hand of geologists and not theologists. In the spoken history facts entwined with fairy tales. Jesus himself spoke in parables, which sometimes, gave discomfort even to his disciples. If God spoke in such a language, why don’t we think it was so in the First book of Moses. 

Regards,
Simon

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Jeffrey Johnson Supporter

When did the Flood (Noah) occur?

Based on biblical chronologies, many scholars estimate that Noah's Flood occurred between 2348 BC and 2500 BC. This date is derived from summing the genealogies and timelines in Genesis 5 and 11, placing the event approximately 1,656 years after the creation of Adam. 

Most calculations are based on the genealogies found in the Book of Genesis:

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month." The "male and female of every sort of flesh" had been brought into the ark with Noah's family, as well as a sufficient food supply for all, and "after that Jehovah shut the door." Then "the floodgates of the heavens were opened." (Ge 7:11, 16) There was an incessant torrential downpour for "forty days and forty nights"; "the waters continued overwhelming the earth" for a hundred and fifty days. (Ge 7:4, 12, 24)

The Bible provides chronological information that allows for a careful count back to the beginning of human history. In Genesis 5:1-29, we find the genealogical line from the creation of the first man, Adam, to the birth of Noah. The Deluge began "in the six hundredth year of Noah's life."​—Genesis 7:11.

Read Genesis chapter 7 verse 11 to chapter 8 verse 4. Regarding the downpour, we are told: "In the six hundredth year of Noah's life [2370 B.C.E.], in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened."​—Genesis 7:11.

Noah divided the year into 12 months of 30 days each. In ancient times, the first month started about the middle of our calendar month of September. The floodwaters began to fall in "the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month" and continued falling for 40 days and 40 nights during November and December 2370 B.C.E.

The Bible provides chronological information that allows for a careful count back to the beginning of human history. In Genesis 5:1-29, we find the genealogical line from the creation of the first man, Adam, to the birth of Noah. The Deluge began "in the six hundredth year of Noah's life."​—Genesis 7:11.

From Adam's creation to the birth of Seth - 130 years

Then to the birth of Enosh - 105 years

To the birth of Kenan - 90 years

To the birth of Mahalalel - 70 years

To the birth of Jared - 65 years

To the birth of Enoch - 162 years

To the birth of Methuselah - 65 years

To the birth of Lamech - 187 years

To the birth of Noah - 182 years

To the Flood - 600 years

Total - 1,656 years

These figures shown for the pre-Flood period are those found in the Masoretic text, on which modern translations of the Hebrew Scriptures are based. These figures differ from those found in the Greek Septuagint, but the evidence for accuracy clearly favours the Masoretic text.

Genesis 5: 3-5 ESV: "And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 4 and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters. 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died."

From 1943 B.C.E. to 2370 B.C.E: Abraham was 75 years old when he entered Canaan in 1943 B.C.E. Now it is possible to date the stream of time farther back, to the days of Noah. This is done by use of the time periods supplied for us in Read Genesis 11:10 to 12:4. This reckoning, which gives a total of 427 years.

Then, adding 427 years to 1943 B.C.E. yields 2370 B.C.E. Thus, the Bible's timetable shows that the Deluge of Noah's day began in 2370 B.C.E.

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