Why do you assume that the mountains of Ararat we know today are the same ones described in the Genesis account?
Is it not possible that those mountains were named after the mountain mentioned in the Genesis account?
Do you also assume that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers we know today are the same that the Genesis account claimed was in Eden?
There is no reason to assume that the places we know by these names today are the same as those recorded in the Genesis account.
Said, who?
There are Jewish traditions that the Torah (called Pentateuch among Christians) - books including Genesis, were attributed to Moses, which according to 1 Kings 6:1, the exodus from Egyptian city of Rameses took place 480 years before King Solomon began construction of the Temple, which supposed took place 4th year of his reign or around 967 BCE.
“1 Kings 6:1” said:
1 In the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
So the date for leaving Egypt would be around 1447 BCE.
From Rameses, this was following 40 years of wandering in the wilderness with large population of Israelites, then his death, then followed by the invasion of Canaan, led by Joshua.
So supposedly, Moses wrote Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Leviticus during their wandering.
The things, there are no archaeological evidence of their (Israelites) presence in Egypt, and in the places they stayed in the wilderness, and no evidence connecting them with invasion Canaan, and no evidence of either Moses and Joshua living in the 15th century BCE, which was the Late Bronze Age (c 1550 - 1050 BCE) in those regions.
There were no contemporary and independent records by the Egyptians and Canaanites that could verify any of the above events narrated from Genesis to Joshua.
And supposedly Moses recorded the events in Genesis, in which he was never eyewitness of, eg the Creation (Genesis 1 to 3), Flood (6 to 8) and the Tower of Babel (11), events that occurred centuries before his time.
And more importantly, there were no biblical texts of any kind existing in the Bronze Age (c 3100 - 1050 BCE). No literary evidence of any kind, not a single stone tablet, clay tablet, parchment, papyrus, inscriptions on the walls, coffins, etc, containing even a single biblical text in the Bronze Age.
All literary evidence showed that the Old Testament books existing only during the Iron Age, between Josiah’s reign (7th century BCE) to as late 2nd century BCE (eg Book of Job).
The oldest evidence of OT texts existing, were inscription on the 2 silver scrolls, containing passage of the Priestly Blessing from Numbers 6. These scrolls were worn as amulets, were found with other objects in a cave that served as tomb, located in Ketef Hinnom.
These objects were dated between 630 and 590 BCE. So the scrolls were inscribed some times before the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonian army. Most of the OT works were composed during Josiah’s reign to Babylonian Exile to their return home.
So if Moses didn’t write Genesis, and it was composed by someone during the Iron Age, then knowledge about Ararat and Euphrates and Tigris would be contemporary knowledge of geography.
You say, Genesis Ararat isn’t the same as the Ararat, and the Genesis Euphrates and Tigris (plus Eden) weren’t the same as that rivers of later times.
So I would ask you, “How could you possibly know that?”
But I don’t really need your answer, because I don’t you understand the Bible that you read.
For instance, you wrote this -
[QUOTE="Fallen Prophet“]Do you also assume that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers we know today are the same that the Genesis account claimed was in Eden?[/QUOTE]
But according to Genesis 2:14:
“Genesis 2:14” said:
14 The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Did you miss the Tigris is associated with Assyria?
I am not saying Eden exist in Tigris and Euphrates, because I think Eden is pure myth. So your claim is wrong that Genesis isn’t talking about the same rivers today, because it is.