Joseph wrote to Farkel: Make sure you don't overlook the post just prior to the last one by aChristian, the one in which I make my Psalm argument.
Real proud of that one, are you Joseph? Too bad. Because, as I will now show, that is your worst argument yet.
You quote Psalm 104:5-9 as proof that the Bible teaches that our entire planet was once completely covered with water. For once you are right. In fact here you are actually right twice. For the Bible does in fact teach that the our entire planet was once completely covered with water. And Psalms 104:5-9 does describe that time.
However, just like all of your other attempts to prove that the Bible teaches that Noah's flood was global, for the sole purpose of attacking the Bible's credibility, this one too falls apart when it is examined by anyone who knows the Bible. Or even by anyone who owns a good cross reference Bible, or even a bad one such as the JW New World Translation. When any of these people read Ps.104:6 they immediately recognize that this verse is not even referring to Noah's flood. It is referring to the time billions of years earlier, when God "set the earth on its foundations." (Ps. 104:5)
All Bible scholars know this. Even JW Bible scholars (though that is a bit of an oxymoron). For all cross reference Bibles, including the JW NWT, at Ps.104:6 refer Bible readers back, not to the Genesis flood account in Gen. 5-9, but to the Genesis creation account in Gen. 1. Specifically they all refer us back to Gen. 1:2. There we read, "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." Why do all Bible scholars know that Ps. 104:6 is referring to Gen.1:2? Because they, like Joseph, read the context of verse 6, namely verse 5 which tells us that the writer of this verse was referring to the time when God "set the earth on its foundations." But, unlike Joseph, the words which they read in Ps.104:5 actually caused them to stop and think for a moment.
Joseph used this passage in Psalms to prove that the Bible cannot be trusted in matters like its accounts of the history of the earth. However, it actually proves just the opposite. How so? Because this verse and the verse its writer was influenced by, Gen.1:2, tell us that at the time our planet was first being formed by God it was completely covered with water. And that is also what modern science now tells us.
Modern science tells us that about 4.4 billion years ago earth's atmosphere was up to 70 times as dense as it is today. The young hot earth was then filling its primitive atmosphere with water vapor at a prodigious rate. Yet the earth and its atmosphere were both too hot to allow condensation to take place. But then, as the earths surface and atmosphere cooled enough to permit the due point to be reached, rain began to fall. Rain then fell continually for thousands of years to produce an ocean which completely covered the earth. Finally the rain stopped and clear skies appeared above this global ocean. Then about 4.3 billion years ago land masses, including mountains, began to rise from earth's global ocean. (By the way, that's why there are now sea shells on mountain tops.) The water that had previously covered these mountains "fled" into "valleys" which we now call "ocean basins," and it will never again cover earth's continents.
Modern science tells us all this happened just as the writer of Ps.104:6-9 recounted to his God, "You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them. You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth."
By the way, Joseph, cross reference Bibles also cross reference those last couple sentences with Gen.1:9,10. There we read, "And God said, 'Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.' And it was so. God called the dry ground 'land,' and the gathered waters he called 'seas.' " You really should get yourself a cross reference Bible, Joseph. Using one before making a post like you just made could save you from some similar embarrassments in the future.
