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The Short Answer
Here's something most people never hear: cultures all over the world tell a great-flood story — Babylonian, Chinese, Aztec, Aboriginal, more than three hundred of them, many with a boat and a saved family. Something enormous lodged in humanity's memory. Bible-believing Christians split on the scale: a globe-covering flood, or a flood that covered the whole known world of Noah's day. Both camps agree on what the story is for: judgment, rescue, and a rainbow promise.
How sure are we? That it happened — the world can't stop retelling it. The scale — honestly debated
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Key Scripture
tap any to readGenesis 7:19
Read →“The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.”
2 Peter 3:6
Read →“The world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.”
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Watch
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Two Views Among Believers
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From the Collection
The Flood — 2348 BC
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Noah
character profile · 2948–1998 BC
Tower of Babel — the aftermath
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Why It Matters
“Three hundred cultures don't co-write fiction. The flood is humanity's shared memory of two things at once: that judgment is real, and that God builds doors into it.”
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