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I had an interesting thought when a commenter\u00a0shared<\/a> how they respond to the claim that the entire globe must have been covered by the flood spoken of in Genesis. He points out that Acts 2:5<\/a> says that \u201cthere were devout Jews from every nation under heaven\u201d in Jerusalem, which\u00a0means the known world and not the entire globe.<\/span><\/p>\n

It struck me that, in order to press that to really mean every nation under the sky, one would have to say that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints<\/a> is correct, that Israelites reached the Americas.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many Protestant fundamentalists are willing to follow their \u201clogic\u201d to that logical conclusion.<\/p>\n

$\"350px-10_Commandment_Rock\"$ <\/p>\n

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