The Flood as Christians know it today is through that of the account of Noah. Noah's story is located in the scripture of the Bible. The story of the flood is first mentioned in the Genesis section of The Holy Bible. Scientific studies now show that a flood of the magnitude that is mentioned in the Bible is scientifically likely to have happened. According to the website www.the-flood.net, "Science now confirms that such a catastrophic event occurred some 4,500 years ago."(). The flood came about when God saw the wicked actions that his human creation had taken part in. In John Kitto's book Illustrated History of the Bible Including the Life of Christ and His Apostles, he writes "this universal depravity of mankind so offended the Almighty, that, as the sacred historian informs us, he 'repented that he had made man on the earth,' and, as a proper punishment for their offences, thought of destroying not only the whole of the human race..., but also the brute creation, which he had formed for the use of ungrateful man" (Kitto 80). Seeing his people embarking in these wicked actions made the Lord displeased with his creation. The Lord became so upset and grieved over what he had created and decided to destroy his creation and start a new. The Lord said "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth∘-- men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air - for I am grieved that I have made them." (Genesis 6:7). God's creation had turned to wickedness and these actions saddened and displeased God to the point at which he decided to take violent action in order to correct those actions. God decided to take action by way of the waters. The Lord planned to open the heavens and let a great rain wash away all that he had created.
             God, prepared to unleash his wrath upon his world, sought after a righteous man by the nam...