Suspicious0bservers Christianity fail

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For those of us here following what's going on with Ben and the Suspicious 0bservers: 
Earth Disaster Cycle | Live Q&A Feb.4.2023

The link brings you at the point in the video where he responds to a superchat question/comment. If you don't know, a superchat is when someone pays money to send a highlighted chat message, and it's courtesy for the streamer to answer them.

The superchatter mentioned God's promise in Genesis about not flooding the world again, and Ben from S0 failed in his answer. He said the Bible is a result of a telephone game, where the original text was passed around so much between people that we have ended up with something very different than what was intended. Which is...not true. We have original copies of most everything you read in the Bible, which is "enough" of a legitimate generation of text according to any historian you could talk to. 

Ben also said that the "world" as mentioned in Genesis 9 wasn't meant as the entire globe, likely just what Noah or the Genesis writer/Moses had considered the world to be. I'm gonna assume (Ed can weigh in on this) that ancient Hebrew folks knew there was a wider world out there, with nations and lands they didn't know about, but the need to nail down the details wasn't a pressing one. The wider world wasn't necessarily important to their every day life, so it was left at that. Maybe those Hebrews inclined to an active imagination did some thinking about it, but it didn't address the important questions in life.

Catacomb Resident mentioned another one of Ben's videos in this blog post, although I think Ben proposes a gradual rise in sea levels rather than a violent tsnuami.

Either way, despite a lot of the things with the disaster cycle Ben put together, this was a big fail.

[Ed Hurst]

I'm pretty sure Ben said multiple times that the "unlocking of the crust" would result in catastrophic tsunamis up to two miles high. I had discussed with Iain, as well, and he said he would go with the Bible's promise over whatever evidence Ben thought he had. But you do get the point about Ben's view of the Bible. I sensed it would be something like that, and I'm not surprised.

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It's a minor point, relatively. Whether it's a tsunami or something more gradual, Ben thinks there will be massive flooding. The version I think Ben promotes, the northwest hemisphere (where we are) tilts down, and it's quick enough that it causes the waters to wash over the land, northward. I wonder if the earth tilts as he says, but it doesn't happen as fast, so there's not as much drastic flooding maybe some on the southern coast of America and South American and any parts that jut out and have water to the south of them. I think Ben is going on past non-scientific accounts of the earth tilting and how quicker it was then. That doesn't mean it'll be such a rapid tilt transition this time, and therefore far less flooding.