there are at least 827 words and phrases in the days of King James that have changed their meaning or are no longer used in our modern, everyday English language
Actually, there are probably many thousands of them, but so what? What you're trying to argue is that when the ancient text says, "The whole world was covered with water to a depth high enough to cover mountains", what it means is, "An area of the Middle East was covered with water to a depth high enough to cover some hills". That's a pretty tall order, so I'm not surprised that I've never heard anyone attempt to make the claim before you.
At that time there were devout Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem.Acts 2:5
So if we follow your logic this passage would imply Jews came from North and South America and other places. But this is not the case the passage is clearly speaking of the known world at the time.
Right -- because the BAGHs
[1] who wrote those texts didn't know that those continents existed, so it makes sense that they would think they knew about the whole world. A text inspired by Yahweh as described in Genesis, however, would know better.
So did all the countries of the world really go to Egypt for food? Did China come over as well? No the passage once again is speaking on a localized level, or the known world at the time.
Same answer. If the BAGHs had known China existed, they would undoubtedly have mentioned it in their fiction -- and then you'd be claiming that that was proof the text was divinely inspired.
The Hebrew word for mountain is 'har'.
Definition- hill, mountain, hill country, mount
http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/har.html
And yet translators always choose the world "mountain", rather than "hill". Why is that? (Especially if, as you would no doubt argue, that the translations, like the originals, are divinely inspired.)
Generally speaking the Mesopotamian word for mountains is 'sadu' and is derive from the word 'mound'.
And here we have what is probably the most hysterical howler yet emitted from your mouth. Dude...
There is no such language as "Mesopotamian".When he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. (Proverbs 8:29)
Clearly refutes a global flood
Only if the BAGHs had had knowledge of global geography, which they didn't.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He lays up the deeps in storehouses. (Psalm 33:6-7)
...For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it. (Jeremiah 5:22)
"Or who enclosed the sea with doors, When, bursting forth, it went out from the womb...And I placed boundaries on it, And I set a bolt and doors, And I said, 'Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop'? (Job 38:8-11)
Refutes global
I don't see that at all. The sea meets the shore... and?
6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water
Disproves nothing. The world then was geographically the same as it is now.
Even Joshepus does not correct the narrative accounts of a local flood.
He probably wouldn't be concerned to correct the narrative accounts of Harry Potter, either. Neither would I.
"Now all the writers of barbarian [Greek] histories make mention of this flood and of this ark: among whom is Berosus the Chaldean... Hieronymous the Egyptian.... Nicolaus of Damascus, in his ninety-sixth book, hath a particular relation about them, where he speaks thus: 'There is a great mountain in Armenia, over Minyas, called Baris, upon which it is reported that many who fled at the time of the Deluge were saved; and that one who was carried in an ark came on shore upon top of it; and that the remains of the timber were a great while preserved. This might be the man about whom Moses, the legislator of the Jews wrote'."8
That's amusing. Can you show me this "Mount Baris" on a map? I did some searches on it, and it appears that this Baris is completely fictional.
Also, Its absolutely ridiculous to assume that every animal on the planet was brought aboard.
Now you're starting to get it. So why do YECs always attempt to argue that this is, in fact, the case, and go stark raving bazonkers trying to explain how (for example) the penguins got to the Middle East, then returned to Antarctica afterwards?
It sounds to me, at least, as if your argument about the Noachian Flood is with other Christians, not with atheists. If you were approaching this from a secular viewpoint, saying that an actual flood had been distorted into the Noachian myth as many atheists do, I'd actually be agreeing with a fair amount of what you're saying here. Leave out the ark part of the myth, and what you've got is basically a gigantic local flood that caused massive devastation. This isn't a farfetched claim at all. In fact, it's not even a particularly uncommon occurrence, and you can see videos of such floods on YouTube (e.g., the Christmas Tsunami).
