Correct. The Bible doesn't present a local flood, but nor does it teach a mere "global" flood. "Global" doesn't go far enough. The Bible teaches a Flood of "cosmic proportions" as a reversal and undoing of the very Creation week itself. Undoing the orderly separation of earth and sea, of the waters above and the waters below, with a return to the primeval watery chaos of Gen 1.2.
Nope. There was no earth nor the universe that first day. Only water. The creation of the beginning by the creation of light in assigning the dark as night and the light as day in establishing each day as evening and morning that day and every day since as a 24 hour day.
The fact that Genesis 2:1-3 is citing the conclusion of how God did created the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1:1 should be taken to that effect.
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It cannot be considered returning to Genesis 1:2 in the imagination you cited when there was no planet with an upper atmosphere until day 2 when gravity was created in separating the water from the water as in the fimrment from the formament as in one place, the water planet from the other place, the upper atmosphere.
And so there was no land, let alone a planet that first day at all and therefore cannot be seen as returning to that state when the flood waters rose up and covered the very mountains.
Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
Psalm 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
2 Peter 3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
So do not believe the deceived nor the liars in that false science, but believe His words instead.
"The post flood rivers were given the same name."--- According to Genesis 2.14, the pre-flood & post flood Tigris & Euphrates are one in the same
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Genesis 7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered. 20
Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
