Global or Local Flood?

I was just looking around on the Internet and found a Christian apologetics web site called Godandscience.org. What caught my eye was a link that said, "The Genesis Flood: Why the Bible Says it must be Local." I was amazed. A supposedly Christian site saying that the Genesis Flood was local. It made no sense. Without a global flood, the Christian understanding of Salvation does not make sense.

The Flood was God's judgement on a wicked world.
God will Judge the wicked world on Judgement Day.

God provided a way of Salvation from the Flood through "Noah's Ark."
God provided a way of Salvation from Eternal Damnation through Jesus Christ.

All who were in the Ark were spared from God's just punishment by a watery death.
All who are in Christ are spared from God's just punishment of an everlasting death.

All Humans drowned, except for those in the Ark.
All Humans will die spiritually, except for those in Christ.

As you can see, a local flood does not make sense, since the Ark saving people from the Flood is a foreshadow of Jesus Christ saving people from Hell. If the Flood was local, does that mean that mean that God's future judgement is local? If so, does that mean that only some people need to be saved from the wrath to come? As you can see, this makes no sense when compared with teachings of Christianity.

A plain reading of the Flood account in Genesis will leave you with no other conclusion than that the Bible claims there was a global flood.

Now let's look at this scientifically; how many local floods have you heard of that have covered entire mountains? Uh... none. Flooding normally occurs in valleys or other lower elevation areas, not covering mountains. And if a local flood did have enough water to cover mountains, then it wouldn't be a local flood, because the water wouldn't have anything to keep it from covering as much area as the amount of water would allow. The two possible ways that this could happen would be:

1. A very deep and expansive valley with mountains in it that were shorter than the edge of the valley, or

2. God created an invisible wall that held the water in so that it could not cover the entire earth.

Possibility 1, is out, because as far as I know, there is no place in the middle east with the geographical features described. Actually, I don't believe there is a geographic feature like this in the world. (I guess you could consider the oceans valleys, and they have mountains in them. But they're already flooded and are not in the middle east (where a local flood would have occured, since that is where the Flood story originated.))

Possibility 2, while plausible (since God can do anything) does not make much sense. If God has the power to make a local flood possible that covers mountains (as described above), then why doesn't he just make a global flood anyway (since He said He was going to destroy the whole earth)?

In conclusion, the Bible is either true or false. Don't try contorting it to fit whatever new "evidence" is discovered, such as evidence about a local flood. If one event in the Bible is untrue, then the whole book is useless, since it claims itself to be "perfect" and "inspired by God." However, the Bible is 100% true and accurate. Just read it like it was meant to be read. Read the historical accounts as history, the poetry parts like poetry, and the prophetic parts as prophecy and everything will be fine.

If you have any questions about the Genesis Flood go to www.answersingenesis.org and type "flood" into the search bar. You can also click on the link at the top of my blog. Hundreds if not thousands of articles will come up with more information on the literal Biblical account of the Flood than you will know what to do with.