Noah's Ark Fact or Fiction?

[hordak]

Originally Posted by FunkyTown

Galileo had a problem with some people's interpretation of the bible, Hordak.

Your right. But like the sun and earth controversy the Global flood is open to interpretation as well. People can doubt others interpretations of the "global flood". They might even be right.

[LittleNipper]

I still take it as literal. I see absolutely no reason that GOD could at any time bring the entire Universe to a standstill. Galileo never said the sun never stopped for Joshua. He said that the earth went around the sun. Narrow minded people who what to place GOD in a box could not see how this would be possible. With GOD anything good is possible.

Joshua 10:13 ... The sun stopped in the middle of the sky. Is the sun in the sky? On earth it appears in our sky. The reality is that the sun is in space. Joshua saw the sun appear to freeze in the sky. The Bible doesn't say exactly how GOD accomplished this feat; however, I do believe it happen just as it was recorded.

Can someone believe that they can be baptized for the dead and yet not believe that GOD could make the sun stand still or allow the entire earth to be flooded?

[hordak]

Originally Posted by LittleNipper

I still take it as literal. I see absolutely no reason that GOD could at any time bring the entire Universe to a standstill. Galileo never said the sun never stopped for Joshua. He said that the earth went around the sun. Narrow minded people who what to place GOD in a box could not see how this would be possible. With GOD anything good is possible.

Joshua 10:13 ... The sun stopped in the middle of the sky. Is the sun in the sky? On earth it appears in our sky. The reality is that the sun is in space. Joshua saw the sun appear to freeze in the sky. The Bible doesn't say exactly how GOD accomplished this feat; however, I do believe it happen just as it was recorded.

Can someone believe that they can be baptized for the dead and yet not believe that GOD could make the sun stand still or allow the entire earth to be flooded?

Just because everything is possible with God doesn't mean everything possible is from God.
Sure he could have flooded the earth then destroyed the evidence to fool scientist. Or the bible could be a product of it's time and Noahs "world" consisted of a few hundred square miles. Similar to how Alexander the great concurred the "world" even though in reality it was only a small portion of 3 continents.

[LittleNipper]

Originally Posted by hordak

Just because everything is possible with God doesn't mean everything possible is from God.
Sure he could have flooded the earth then destroyed the evidence to fool scientist. Or the bible could be a product of it's time and Noahs "world" consisted of a few hundred square miles. Similar to how Alexander the great concurred the "world" even though in reality it was only a small portion of 3 continents.

It is rather difficult to cover the "high hills" without covering all the lower lands first...

[Hemidakota]

Originally Posted by DeltaVortex

I went to a site that I believe is Noah's Ark. Do you believe that this could be it?


YouTube - Noah's Ark Field Studies 07 pt2

We confirmed a pattern of iron on this large boat shape.

Had to go there myself because there were opinions against the site and opinions for. The opinions against said there was no pattern of iron.


DV

This comes by prayer and the answer received will be a rude awakening of the soul.

[Hemidakota]

Originally Posted by LittleNipper

It is rather difficult to cover the "high hills" without covering all the lower lands first...

I highly doubt Mount Everest was there when it happened.

[LittleNipper]

Originally Posted by Hemidakota

I highly doubt Mount Everest was there when it happened.

Actually, I am of the firm belief that Mount Everest was a result of as a monument to the Great Flood. It resulted from land surface stress and fracturing.

[rayhale]

I've seen in several commentaries that the people in the Bible, was more concerned with the moral of the story than the truthfulness of it. A great example is the Parables of Jesus. Were all his parables based on real life circumstances or were they just generalizations?
Now to the story of Noah's Ark, there are several different things about that story that doesn't make sense, like the number of animals; even at a very small amount of 5,000 if you divide it by 8, the number of people on the ark, then that is 625 animals per person to feed, and that leads me to the next problem, food, even if there was enough space for the animals and people to be on the ark, there needed to be at least one or more arks, full of food, just to feed everyone, now that leads to the next point, what goes in, MUST come out, now I don't want to be too graphic, but it would, not only, be a mess, but no one would be able to breath. Now I'm not discounting the Noah's Ark story on just that, because God could put all the animals to sleep, like He did to Adam, in the Garden of Eden. Or God could have had Angels helping out, having food 'appearing' like he did with the loaves and the fishes, during the Sermon on the Mount, and the Manna in the Old Testament.

[Moksha]

Isn't it great that people who view this as an ancient folktale borrowed from even older civilizations can sit side by side with a biblical flood as an actual event believers on Sundays?

[Moksha]

Originally Posted by rayhale

I've seen in several commentaries that the people in the Bible, was more concerned with the moral of the story than the truthfulness of it.

Two morals spring readily to mind:

1. Be prepared
2. Help save the whales.


A further moral from the story of Noah:

1. If you drink, keep your pants on
2. Take two aspirin when you have a hangover, rather than make strong curses.