GOOD•NEWS•SNAPS
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Carrickfergus Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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About 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. If all of the Earth's crust was flattened, with the mountains and ocean floor levelled out to form a perfect sphere, water would cover the entire planet to a depth of 2.5km or 1.5 miles. So, if there was a time in Earth's history when the seabed was higher and the mountains were lower (prior to some sort of cataclysmic event that resulted in massive tectonic shifts, for example), then there is more than enough water on the planet to cause a global flood.
Genesis chapters six to nine recount how God judged mankind's wickedness by just such an event - a catastrophic, worldwide flood. The rainbow serves as a promise that God will never again use a flood to punish a sinful world. But that does not mean that God is no longer angered by the wickedness of mankind and our rejection of Him. So the rainbow is also an important reminder that God judges sin.
It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
(Hebrews 9:27)
d e l u g e
Carrickfergus Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
__________________________
About 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. If all of the Earth's crust was flattened, with the mountains and ocean floor levelled out to form a perfect sphere, water would cover the entire planet to a depth of 2.5km or 1.5 miles. So, if there was a time in Earth's history when the seabed was higher and the mountains were lower (prior to some sort of cataclysmic event that resulted in massive tectonic shifts, for example), then there is more than enough water on the planet to cause a global flood.
Genesis chapters six to nine recount how God judged mankind's wickedness by just such an event - a catastrophic, worldwide flood. The rainbow serves as a promise that God will never again use a flood to punish a sinful world. But that does not mean that God is no longer angered by the wickedness of mankind and our rejection of Him. So the rainbow is also an important reminder that God judges sin.
It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
(Hebrews 9:27)