Noah's Ark Fact or Fiction?

[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

[Traveler]

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 shaped.

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

I believe that there was in reality a Noah's Ark. Exactly what the extent of understanding is concerning this scripture epoch is where I believe there is fiction. Without question there are things missing from the scripture account that many have added to this great message to distract from what the message may really have been in ancient times.

I find it interesting that the Book of Enoch tells us that two of the greatest sins being committed as the cause of the flood was:

1. The order of marriage was changed. (I wonder what was meant by that – what other orders are there?)

2. That children were conceived only for carnal purposes. (I wonder if this was a free choice issue?)

The Traveler

[Book_of_Mormon_Warrior]

Alma 10

1. [22] Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the prayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by flood, as were the people in the days of Noah, but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.

[LittleNipper]

I hold to a basic inerrancy of the Bible in its original tongue; therefore, I believe unashamed that the FLOOD is a historic fact. I believe that the fossil record is connected with it in one way or another.

[LittleNipper]

Originally Posted by Traveler

I believe that there was in reality a Noah's Ark. Exactly what the extent of understanding is concerning this scripture epoch is where I believe there is fiction. Without question there are things missing from the scripture account that many have added to this great message to distract from what the message may really have been in ancient times.

I find it interesting that the Book of Enoch tells us that two of the greatest sins being committed as the cause of the flood was:

1. The order of marriage was changed. (I wonder what was meant by that – what other orders are there?)

2. That children were conceived only for carnal purposes. (I wonder if this was a free choice issue?)

The Traveler

There is a consideration among evangelicals that satan was trying to corrupt the human race and destroy the Adamic line JESUS was to be born through. This was happening through intermarriage of humanity with angels.

[YoungMormonRoyalist]

I'm in a World Religions class, and Western Civilizations class in college (Just got to Lethbridge yall! Finally moved in! Woot!) and it's amazing to see the flood stories that originate from almost every civilization. Heres a few examples:

Noah's Ark - Not gonna summarize this one

Epic of Gilgammesh - The gods are angry with humanities sin and bloodshed, they tell a man to build a boat, save his family. This is a Mesopotamian legend

Atlantis - Advanced civilization destroyed by giant flood.

[Maxel]

Don't forget the ancient Hindu myth. According to legend,

Vishnu, the 'preserver of the Universe', manifested himself on the earth through 9 different avatars throughout history to preserve the world. One of those avatars, Matsya, saved the first man, Manu, from 'the [great] flood'. (Religions of the World: A Latter-day Saint View; page 20)

[Dr T]

I've thought some about Noah's ark and see some definite difficulties in the science of it. Like "How did Noah feel the Kuala bear when that kind of leaf was not indigenous to that region of the world for that animal to eat and the idea of the wood rotting after it had been exposed to the elements yet still believing it took so long to build without that happening. And I've come to believe that the only way it could be possible is if God actually intervened so those difficulties weren't difficult I guess or it didn't happen. I've put my belief in teh Bible and so I'd have to say, if God wanted it done then I guess He could have make it happen. It's not that it's an impossibility just looks like there are some things that made me think about it.

[hordak]

I think it is an exaggeration. Every bible story pertains to a small race of people in a small area of the world. The wars and covenants they made only pertained to them.I think the flood was the same. Writing about a "world flood" with their limited knowledge would have been similar to Columbus thinking he could sail to India by going west.

Many other cultures have other flood stories but they are so drastically different, and all people build around water, that I don't see it as proof.
Actually it makes me wonder if those who have the most similar stories use the biblical story as proof of their religion.

[Dr T]

Every bible story pertains to a small race of people in a small area of the world.

Maybe you meant something else. I think I know what u meant but "every bible story"? The Bible is for all people and not a small select few.