Bible Romances, First Series

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Foote George William. Bible Romances, First Series

THE CREATION STORY. BIBLE ROMANCES. – 1

NOAH'S FLOOD. BIBLE ROMANCES – 2

EVE AND THE APPLE. BIBLE ROMANCES. -3

THE BIBLE DEVIL. BIBLE ROMANCES. – 4

THE TEN PLAGUES; Or, HOW MOSES HARRIED EGYPT

JONAH AND THE WHALE. BIBLE ROMANCES. – 6

THE WANDERING JEWS. BIBLE ROMANCES. – VII

THE TOWER OF BABEL. BIBLE ROMANCES. – VIII

BALAAM'S ASS. BIBLE ROMANCES. – IX

GOD'S THIEVES IN CANAAN. BIBLE ROMANCES. – X

CAIN AND ABEL. BIBLE ROMANCES. – 11

LOT'S WIFE. BIBLE ROMANCES. – 12

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By G. W. FOOTE.

The Bible story of the Deluge is at once the biggest and the most ridiculous in the whole volume. Any person who reads it with the eyes of common sense, and some slight knowledge of science, must admit that it is altogether incredible and absurd, and that the book which contains it cannot be the Word of God.

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Geology absolutely contradicts the possibility of any such catastrophe as the deluge within the historic period. According to Sir Charles Lyell, no devastating flood could have passed over the forest zone of Ætna during the last twelve thousand years; and the volcanic cones of Auvergne, which enclose in their ashes the remains of extinct animals, and present an outline as perfect as that of Ætna, are deemed older still. Kalisch forcibly presents this aspect of the question: "Geology teaches the impossibility of a universal deluge since the last six thousand years, but does not exclude a partial destruction of the earth's surface within that period. The Biblical text, on the other hand, demands the supposition of a universal deluge, and absolutely excludes a partial flood."

6. What became of all the fish? In such a deluge the rivers and seas must have mingled their waters, and this, in conjunction with the terrific outpour from the windows of heaven, must have made the water brackish, too salt for fresh-water fish, and too fresh for salt-water fish; and consequently the aquatic animals must all have perished, unless, indeed, they were miraculously preserved – a contingency which anyone is free to conjecture, out no one is at liberty to assert, seeing that the inspired writer never even hints such a possibility. Now there is no evidence whatever that Noah took and fish with him into the ark; under natural circumstances they must have perished outside; yet the seas and rivers still teem with life. When did the new creation of fish take place?

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