Is there any evidence that the worldwide flood actually happened?
Like in most instances of the Bible, correct translation is key, if someone wants to begin to understand and then move forward. “An understanding… of the Flood depends materially on the correct translation of the word mabbul. Mabbul does not mean “flood”, “inundation”, or even “destruction”, but it is a technical term for a part of the world structure, namely, the heavenly ocean. This heavenly sea, which is above the firmament (raqia), empties downward… We must understand the Flood, therefore, as a catastrophe involving the entire cosmos. When the heavenly ocean breaks forth upon the earth below, and the primeval sea beneath the earth, which is restrained by God, now freed from its bonds, gushes up through yawning chasms onto the earth, then there is a destruction of the entire cosmic system according to biblical cosmogony. The two halves of the chaotic primeval sea, separated – the one up, the other below – by God’s creative government, are again united; creation begins to sink ag
