Noah's Flood Was Local NOT Worldwide

The Black Sea Flood of 7,000 years ago is where the story of Noah's Flood came from.    
The Black Sea is located in southern Russia.    
Scientists have found the remains of a northern coastline.    
It's been submerged for thousands of years.    
The Black Sea today is twice the size of the sea.of 7,000 years.    
The amount of land submerged by the flood is about the circumference of Florida, I've read.    
So it was nowhere near a global judgment by God upon the human race.    
   
This new view demythologizes the Flood in the Biblical account (Genesis 5).    
It makes God look good, better than before.    
For a truly global Flood has always been hard to square with a loving, forgiving Creator.    
Honestly, I would prefer a God whose judgment upon a nation or area fits the sins that the nation or area is guilty of.    
Wouldn't you ??!!    
     
This news of a local flood, a local judgment by God upon sin, doesn't diminish my respect for the Bible.    
It increases it, for now I can come out from under the heavy burden of having to defend an excessive over-punishment  of mankind by God.    
     
Upholding the reputation of God is more    
 important than upholding that of the Bible.    
It's better for a passage in the Bible to be proved wrong than for God to be made to look bad  --  like a monster.    
     
But what real evidence is there that the ancient Black Sea Flood is the historical basis for the Biblical account?      
The Gilgamesh myth about the Flood, etc, came from Babylon and other areas within Iraq.    
Well, from the eastern coast of the Black Sea down to Iraq its not much more than a hop, skip and a jump.    
The proximity of Iraq to the Black Sea tells me that the survivors of that flood would have found their way to Iraq.over a few generations.    
No doubt about it.    
I'm saying those Iraqi stories should be looked at as coming from the flood survivors that settled in Iraq.  
   
One more thing:  
The purpose of the Noah story is to present God as a Ruler who punishes society for sin, but also saves the righteous by separating them from the wicked.  
THAT part of the Noah account survives the downsizing of the Flood.  
I mean simply, the Black Sea Flood can still be seen as a judgment by God, ok??  
God may well have warned the God-fearing portion of the populace about the coming of the flood, telling them where to settle after they made their escape.  
   
Finally, a word about the endtime.  
Christ says that the time of the Rapture ("the day of the Son of Man") will be similar to the time of Noah.  
Now, I have always shown that the Rapture occurs when Russian Attack takes place (going back to 1980, which is when I saw the "sudden destruction" at the Rapture HAS TO BE Russian attack).  
When Christ connects Noah's Flood to the Rapture, here is the point.  
That flood turns out to be the Black Sea Flood, -- the RUSSIAN Flood.  
Likewise, the "sudden destruction" coming in the future will be Russian in origin.  

PS: if we take the Black Sea Flood as the basis of the Noah story in Genesis, this exposes the exaggeration in that account.  
I mean we can no longer claim the Noah story is 100% truthful.  
But John's Gospel already implies that the Law of Moses (Genesis is in the Law) is less than truthful.  
For we read,"The Law was given by Moses, but ..truth came by Jesus Christ"(John 1.17).  
If the Law is pure truth, John wouldn't be able to say "truth came by Jesus Christ".  
For it would have already  come by Moses !!!  

PS: the Bible's loss is God's gain.  
And  like Christ taught its not the gold of the temple that's important, but the temple (Matthew 23.16-19), we should put God first, not the Bible.  
Whichever gives more glory to God, that is the way to judge in this issue.  
For Paul the apostle writes, "do all to the glory of God [not the Bible]" (1st Corinthians 10.31).