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"But as for Noah, he was afraid, since God had determined to destroy [cor-
rupted Adamite] mankind, lest He should drown the earth [land] every year;
so he [Noah] offered burnt-offerings, and besought God that Nature might
hereafter go on in its former orderly course, and that He [YEHOVAH God]
would not bring on so great a judgment any more, by which the whole
race of creatures [mankind of the first creation] might be in danger of
destruction; but that, having now punished the wicked [Adamites who mar-
ried the 'daughters of men' and became increasingly wicked], He would of
His goodness spare the remainder, and such as He had hitherto judged
fit to be delivered from so severe a calamity..." (Book I, Chapter III, 7).

4. What does Josephus record about what Nicolaus of Damascus wrote?

COMMENT: He wrote
that "Nicolaus of Damas-
cus, in his ninety-sixth
book, hath a particular
relation about them,
where he speaks thus:
'There is a great moun-
tain in Armenia, over
Minyas, called Baris, up-
on which it is reported
that many who fled at
the time of the Deluge
were saved; and that
one [Noah] who was car- Not All People Died in the Flood Because It Was Local
ried in an ark came on shore upon the top of it...'" (Book I, Chapter III, 6).

Clearly, many survived the Flood; and since it was only the land in which
the wicked Adamites lived that was flooded, this makes complete sense.
Many of the races created in the first creation account of Genesis 1 were
not affected by Noah's Flood, and although the weather patterns of the
earth were greatly changed by the falling of the band of water surrounding
the earth, these races continued to grow and expand over the face of the
earth.

5. The "sons of God" were those of the line of Adam who rejected
YEHOVAH's laws and increased in wickedness and "corrupted their way on
the land". Genesis 6:12.

6. The "daughters of men" were those of the sixth-day creation whom "the
sons of God saw...were beautiful; and they [the sons of God] took wives for

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