When Noah Was 600 Years Old

[church mouse guy]

“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month...”

Dr. Andrew Snelling, with Answers in Genesis, in 2009 in a video called “The Flood: The Big Picture of its Mechanism and Resulting Evidences,” list five events that happened all at once after God shut the door on the ark.

A. The ocean floor ripped apart and the continent was ripped up. Genesis 7:11

B. Where the cold ocean floor met the supercontinental crust, there was a rupture, and the old ocean floor sank underneath the busted up continental plates. Today’s ocean floor is totally new.

C. As the cold material on the ocean floor sank down, it caused warm material from the earth’s core to push up.

D. The hot rock from underneath had water in it and also mixed with ocean water to cause massive steam jets that violently carried ocean water into the atmosphere where it fell back to earth as heavy rains. Scripture calls this the floodgates of Heaven.

E. The old ocean floor melted away and a new ocean floor of hot lightweight materials rose 3,500 feet to push the ocean water over the continental plates.

Genesis 7:11-13

 

[Scott Downey]

Or the earth just sank under the water, or the water just rose, but it did happen to flood the whole earth. There are marine shells on mountain tops.
There does not have to be any scientific understanding of how, no human saw it happens, so it's just conjecture.

5 For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,
6 and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. 7 But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

The way Genesis and Peter reads to me, the earth was formed (exposed) by receding water, a pooling of the great deep.
1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth.

9 Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place [of standing, pooling together], and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that this was good (pleasing, useful) and He affirmed and sustained it.

 

[church mouse guy]

To me myself, the earth was covered with water twice: in the beginning and when Noah was 600 years old.

It is not conjecture what happened when God shut the door on the ark but scientific observation. There are no fossils on the ocean floor so we know that it is new and that the marine life was buried on the continental plates. So man’s sin and rejection of God caused the deaths of untold billions of animals and thousands of people and the present configuration of the land and water.

 

[Salty]

Actually - when Noah was 600, he coined the term "what can you get for the wife who has everything"
Noah explained - after those hundreds of years of Christmas gifts - there just wasn't anything new to buy her.

 

[Glerse]

Wow, that's one of newest thing I have learned today! Great post. Starting to love this forum.