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[[Image:Michelangeloflood.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''The Flood'', by Michaelangelo, detail from the Sistine Chapel, 1509.]]

[[Image:Michelangeloflood.jpg|thumb|300px|right|''The Flood'', by Michaelangelo, detail from the Sistine Chapel, 1509.]]

The '''Great Flood''' refers to the biblical flood mentioned in [[Genesis]].

The '''Great Flood''', or '''Deluge''', is the event recorded in Genesis, chapters 6 through 9; this event, as indicated by the stories which have survived in many cultures and traditions, was the last great event shared by mankind.

It bears many similarities to other Mesopotamian deluge myths, although that was primarily due to the other cultures in the region stealing ideas from the Bible.  (NB: important to note that even though secularist 'dating' results in Sumerian mythology as being considered older than The Bible, this is in fact incorrect, and The Bible is the first known human text.)

 

Genesis describes the condition of mankind in the years following the expulstion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden:

God commanded Noah to create [[Noah's Ark]] to save him and his family and each of the animal kinds from the Great Flood.  After the Flood, a [[rainbow]] appears as a covenant from God.  (Unfortunately, the rainbow, sign of a covenant with God, has been co-opted by the secularists to be a sign of their sinful, rebellious, anti-God lifestyle.)

*And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Gen. 6:5)

 

God had repented of His creation, and decided to destroy it; only Noah was righteous before Him, and God decided Noah and his family was to be spared the destruction of the world by a flood.  Noah was told to build an ark, place onboard pairs of animals, and ride out the waters.  

==Babylonian flood story==

==Babylonian flood story==