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78:7.1 The [[river]] dwellers were accustomed to rivers overflowing their banks at certain [[seasons]]; these periodic floods were annual [[events]] in their lives. But new [[perils]] threatened the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system valley of Mesopotamia] as a result of progressive [[geologic]] [[changes]] to the north.

78:7.1 The [[river]] dwellers were accustomed to rivers overflowing their banks at certain [[seasons]]; these periodic floods were annual [[events]] in their lives. But new [[perils]] threatened the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system valley of Mesopotamia] as a result of progressive [[geologic]] [[changes]] to the north.

78:7.2 For thousands of years after the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73#73:7._THE_FATE_OF_EDEN submergence of the first Eden] the [[mountains]] about the eastern coast of the [[Mediterranean]] and those to the northwest and northeast of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] continued to rise. This elevation of the highlands was greatly accelerated about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_B.C. 5000 B.C.], and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring throughout the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system Euphrates valley]. These spring floods grew increasingly worse so that [[eventually]] the [[inhabitants]] of the [[river]] regions were driven to the eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years scores of [[cities]] were practically deserted because of these [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_myth extensive deluges].

78:7.2 For thousands of years after the [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_73#73:7._THE_FATE_OF_EDEN submergence of the first Eden] the [[mountains]] about the eastern coast of the [[Mediterranean]] and those to the northwest and northeast of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] continued to rise. This elevation of the highlands was greatly accelerated about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_B.C. 5000 B.C.], and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring throughout the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris-Euphrates_river_system Euphrates valley]. These spring floods grew increasingly worse so that [[eventually]] the [[inhabitants]] of the [[river]] regions were driven to the eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years scores of [[cities]] were practically deserted because of these [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_myth extensive deluges].

78:7.3 Almost five thousand years later, as the [[Hebrew]] [[priests]] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity Babylonian captivity] sought to trace the Jewish people back to [[Adam]], they found great [[difficulty]] in piecing the [[story]] together; and it occurred to one of them to abandon the [[effort]], to let the whole world drown in its wickedness at the time of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark Noah's flood], and thus to be in a better position to trace [[Abraham]] right back to one of the three surviving sons of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah].

78:7.3 Almost five thousand years later, as the [[Hebrew]] [[priests]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity Babylonian captivity] sought to trace the Jewish people back to [[Adam]], they found great [[difficulty]] in piecing the [[story]] together; and it occurred to one of them to abandon the [[effort]], to let the whole world drown in its wickedness at the time of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark Noah's flood], and thus to be in a better position to trace [[Abraham]] right back to one of the three surviving sons of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah].

78:7.4 The [[traditions]] of a time when water covered the whole of the [[earth]]'s [[surface]] are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_myth universal]. Many races harbor the [[story]] of a world-wide flood some time during [[past]] ages. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.5 Biblical story of Noah], the ark, and the flood is an [[invention]] of the [[Hebrew]] [[priesthood]] during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity Babylonian captivity]. There has never been a [[universal]] flood since [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58 life was established on Urantia]. The only time the [[surface]] of the [[earth]] was completely covered by water was during those [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archeozoic Archeozoic ages] before the [[land]] had begun to appear.

78:7.4 The [[traditions]] of a time when water covered the whole of the [[earth]]'s [[surface]] are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_myth universal]. Many races harbor the [[story]] of a world-wide flood some time during [[past]] ages. The [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Genesis#Chapter_.5 Biblical story of Noah], the ark, and the flood is an [[invention]] of the [[Hebrew]] [[priesthood]] during the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity Babylonian captivity]. There has never been a [[universal]] flood since [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_58 life was established on Urantia]. The only time the [[surface]] of the [[earth]] was completely covered by water was during those [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archeozoic Archeozoic ages] before the [[land]] had begun to appear.

78:7.5 But [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] really lived; he was a wine maker of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_%28Biblical_region%29 Aram], a river settlement near [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erech Erech]. He kept a [[written]] [[record]] of the days of the [[river]]'s rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the [[family]] [[animals]] be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the [[neighboring]] [[river]] settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] and his immediate [[family]] were saved in their houseboat.

78:7.5 But [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] really lived; he was a wine maker of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_%28Biblical_region%29 Aram], a river settlement near [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erech Erech]. He kept a [[written]] [[record]] of the days of the [[river]]'s rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the [[family]] [[animals]] be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the [[neighboring]] [[river]] settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah Noah] and his immediate [[family]] were saved in their houseboat.

78:7.6 These floods completed the disruption of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[civilization]]. With the ending of this period of deluge, the [[second garden]] was no more. Only in the south and among the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] did any trace of the former [[glory]] remain.

78:7.6 These floods completed the disruption of [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_78#78:4._THE_ANDITES Andite] [[civilization]]. With the ending of this period of deluge, the [[second garden]] was no more. Only in the south and among the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer Sumerians] did any trace of the former [[glory]] remain.

78:7.7 The remnants of this, one of the oldest [[civilizations]], are to be found in these regions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] and to the northeast and northwest. But still older vestiges of the days of [[Dalamatia]] exist under the waters of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf], and the [[first Eden]] lies submerged under the eastern end of the [[Mediterranean Sea]].[http://www.press.daynal.org/catalog/atlantis.html]

78:7.7 The remnants of this, one of the oldest [[civilizations]], are to be found in these regions of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] and to the northeast and northwest. But still older vestiges of the days of [[Dalamatia]] exist under the waters of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf Persian Gulf], and the [[first Eden]] lies submerged under the eastern end of the [[Mediterranean Sea]].[https://www.press.daynal.org/catalog/atlantis.html]

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