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 12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
So, having established that the flood was not global, that there was human life throughout the world, and that only Noah’s part was completely wiped out, some peculiarities in God’s statement suddenly become more clear.  God was not making a covenant with those alive in Egpyt, China, India, Australia, or the Americas.  He was making a covenant with Noah and his descendants, and the animals on the ark and their descendants.  However, in a practical sense, these descendants have spread throughout the world, and so I believe …

 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
I have been on these verses since August 31.  I have been trying to move on to verse 12, …

According to an article about Marie-Agnès Courty, she has found that soil samples mapping to 2200 BC correspond very well to when the Earth apparently experienced cometary debris.  According to the article, the affects would have been quite similar to the fire from Heaven that Biblically destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.  If the flood really did take place 2800 BC, then this time-frame could make a lot of sense.  It dates Abraham to around 2200 BC. 

Now many Christians have used the genealogies within scripture to derive a date for Abraham of around 2000 BC, but such dating is inexact, and does not account for potentially skipped generations.  Still, getting within 200 years seems pretty good to me.

What is cool about this is that it …

In Dating the Flood… May 10, 2807 B.C.?, I reported on possible scientific evidence for Noah’s flood.  Whatever else is true, it would seem that a meteor struck the Indian Ocean around 2800 BC, leaving what is known as the Burckle Crater.  But here’s the thing.  The size of the resulting tsunamis would have caused massive flooding up and down the entire Indian Gulf, including Africa, India, and the Middle East.  This would explain why so many traditions have stories of a flood.  Then, as Noah’s descendants met up with other populations throughout the world, it would seem the stories morphed to the point where some they had a suprising number of similarities, going beyond just the idea of a flood.  This would also …

One powerful piece of evidence that Christians who believe in an Old Earth would love to add their arsenal would be if contemporary science could tell us when the flood occurred, and if it could date the flood to around the time Young Earth Christians generally think.  Well, you can’t get more maintstream than the New York times, and they published an article in 2006, suggesting a meteor impacted Madagascar around 4,800 years ago.  According to the Holocene Impact Working Group,the discovered crater appears to have been created by a meteor large enough to have caused a 600 foot tsunamis up and down Africa and the Middle East.  This article does not appear to be written by Christians (could be …

As I wrote about in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah (Part 3) - The others were in God’s image, too, most of the world today is not descended form Adam.  They were created in God’s image long before Adam.  Adam however is the first person to have been given a command to believe and obey from God, and so the first person to actually fall from grace.  The rest of the world was given no law from God, and so had no law to fall from.  What does that say …

As wrote in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah (Part 2) - Who else was there?, it would seem that most of the modern world did not initially descend from Adam, let alone Noah.  My list was not exhaustive, but according to fossil records, the following major populations of people have been around since before Adam:

China - 67,000 years
India - 30,000 years
Africa - 200,000 years
Native Americans - 16,500 - 40,000 years
Australia - 40,000 years
Middle East - 60,000 years

Adam descended from the Middle Eastern population, after it left Africa.  He lived somewhere around 6,000 to 10,000 …

As described in Genesis 9:8-11 - The Recipients of God’s Covenant with Noah, the recipients of God’s promise to never wipe out all people from a land are Noah and his descendants.  This was not the first time God excluded most of the world from a covenant (Adamic covenant was only with Adam and his descendants, not the rest of the world).  It would not be the last (The Mosaic covenant would only be with the descendants of Isaac).  That said, God reserves the right to graft non-recipients into a covenant, hence making them recipients if He so chooses.  Consider this passage from Romans 11…
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 8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: 9 “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you 10 and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. 11 I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
Referring back to …

With the flood over, it would seem that God is looking back over the circumstances that led to the flood, and is given Noah and his family a slightly different set of rules by which to live.

Before the fall, God gave man plants to eat (Gen 1:29, 2:16), and animals to subdue (Gen 1:28, 2:18).  After the fall, God cursed the ground (Gen. 3:17), making it hard to till.  Rather than farm the ground, Abel decided to raise animals for food (Gen 4:2,4); Cain tilled the ground (Gen 4:2,3).  Now, how do we know Abel’s flocks were for food? Because he knew to give God the fat most flavorful part… the fat portions. 

Cain, it would seem, was the more obedient …