The Global Flood: Judgment or Mercy? (Genesis 7:11)

Meditations on Genesis #21

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Imagine you’d never heard the story of the worldwide flood, but you found a fragment in a jar in some cave overlooking The Dead Sea with Ge…