I've often wondered, what was the real pupose of the Global Deluge? What did it achieve?
Surely Jehovah could just as easily have destroyed the Nephilim as he did the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah?
What happened after the Flood?
Genesis 9:20
And now Noah started off as a farmer and proceeded to plant a vineyard. 21 And he began drinking of the wine and became intoxicated, and so he uncovered himself in the midst of his tent.22 Later, Ham the father of Canaan saw his fathers nakedness and went telling it to his two brothers outside. 23 At that Shem and Japheth took a mantle and walked in backwards. Thus, they covered their father's nakedness, while their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father's nakedness.
24 Finally Noah awoke from his wine and got to know what his youngest son had done to him. 25 At that he said:
"Cursed be Canaan. Let him be the lowest slave to his brothers.
So, before even a few years had gone by, Noah had already got drunk, cursed Canaan and his offspring because his son saw him naked.
Not so many years after that, Nimrod was born and stared another revolution.
What exactly did the flood achieve? Or is there a more sinister reason?
One of my ideas, and I must admit it is a little weird, is that before the deluge, all the earth was one land mass. This has been proved by geologists, Africa used to touch the continental United States.
After the flood, you no longer had one land mass, but you had seven continents, one of them being too cold to live on, Antartica. Any thoughts on this?
Jehovah wanted mankind to spread through out the earth, but Nimrod didn't agree, so God came down to Babel and confused everyone's lingo. eventually, they left off building the city, and did spread throughout the whole world.
As I said, why bother with a global deluge if mankind was only going to go his own way anyway?