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The Flood: Not Global, Barely Local, Mostly Theological
The three part series, written by Paul Seely, explores the scientific validity of the Flood in Genesis. He offers the approximate date of the flood according to Scripture, and then looks at various lines of evidence that contradict the idea of a global flood at that time. In light of other Mesopotamian flood stories, scholars conclude that the flood was local at best. In the end, he suggests that this story primarily reveals theological truths from a limited scientific understanding of natural events.
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The Flood: Not Global, Barely Local, Mostly Theological, Pt 1
Before considering the scientific data, we must first determine a rough earliest probable date for the Flood. If the Flood is an actual historical event, it must touch down in the empirical data of history somewhere.
The Flood: Not Global, Barely Local, Mostly Theological, Pt 2
There are so many close similarities between the biblical Flood account and the Mesopotamian accounts that many conservative scholars have concluded that the biblical and Mesopotamian flood accounts go back to a common tradition about the same flood. This means if we can locate the flood from the Mesopotamian accounts, we will have located the biblical flood.
The Flood: Not Global, Barely Local, Mostly Theological, Pt 3
Unfortunately, there is no single word to my knowledge that could accurately categorize the Genesis Flood account. Parabolic Legend is the best I can do because although the genre is Legend not Parable, like a parable it sets forth a story as history with the purpose of teaching spiritual truth.