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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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