Do Christians believe in a literal noah's ark?

Question

NOT trying to religion bash, just honestly asking...yeah this might be a stupid question.

Someone said: yes, why do you ask....i asked because earlier i saw a question by a crhistian claiming islam was proven false because mohamad claimed to have seen literally a staircase come down from above the clouds...and other rediculous events. I was wondering if christians these days took the ark story seriously because it too is, from a rational perspective (im not religion bashing), completely unbelievable and impossible for any person or group of persons to actually carry out.

Answer 1

although many questions regarding the bible might appear to be stupid to a rational thinking person, you must remember that christians have permanently switched their brains to the 'off' position and hence quite happily respond questions about the preposterous nonsense in the bible as if its contents were actually related to the real world. belief is all in the mind until it is tested against the empirical world - once this is done christianity (along with all other revealed religions) is immediately exposed as the hollow sham that it is. Noah's ark is as relevant to the real world as santa's sleigh

Answer 2

You said that the ark story is completely unbelievable. Why? If there is a God who created the world and He decided to destroy a corrupt civilization, couldn't He have someone build such a ship? Remember - the average age of the antediluvian people was 912 years! This sounds incredible to us today, but things were quite different then. This would have given Noah and his sons/workers plenty of time to build such an ark. And there were no polar caps or deserts before the Flood - there was no rain, and everything was watered by springs from the ground. The Bible speaks of "the waters above the firmament", which leads scientists to believe that a vapor canopy might have existed that could have shielded the earth from harmful and aging UV rays from the sun. Also, the world spoke one language then, so there was one giant gene pool that people were marrying and having children from. A larger gene pool means much less of a chance for genetic mutations getting together to create diseases and deformaties like when after the languages were split up at Babel. All these things show that man's age before the Flood was very feasible.

Having said this, Noah had the better part of a century to build a ship large enough to hold the animals. And, too, the pre-Flood earth was probably quite different, too - there was probably one land mass which broke apart during the Flood, meaning that the world's animals were all living together. No sloths or kangaroos to travel thousands of miles. The continents only drifted after the Flood. And only 2 *kinds* of animals were on the ark, according to the text - not 2 of every species. This would limit the on-board animals to between 13,000-18,000 animals. They only needed to be babies, also. No need for full grown adults, right?

I could go on and on. These issues are easily answered from the Bible. People are quick to discount apparent problems with the Bible. I would recommend the site http://www.answersingenesis.org for examinations of these kinds of questions.

Best wishes!

Answer 3

I think it was only about 2,000 years ago that a substantial number of people began to doubt, the numbers of those who doubt have grown. The Bible says that in the last days people will mock the Flood. I find that this is common, though of a subtle nature.

In fact the world population in about 4990 BC was 8.

The ark can never be found no more than Solomon's temple could be found, or the stones inscribed for Moses and Israel.

I see they are not teaching in school that the Flood caused the formation of the sedimentary layers with their fosils, and other upheavels attributed to the "ice age".

Division of the lands (continents) occured during Peleg's era as recorded in Genesis, just after the ruin of the Tower of Babel.

Answer 4

JC used Noahs ark as faith doctrine -- St Paul ( AKA MR. DOCTRINE ) said if the garden of eden were not true then every thing JC did was in vain -- They have to believe in the garden and Noah --All or nothing --And they think pagans are the gamblers --And Pascal is a sure bet ??

Answer 5

Yes we do beleive in a literal Noah's Ark. and actually it may have been found. we have to wait for the ice to receede on a certain mountain to find out for sure. but a tribe that lives at the bottom of it has a perfect drawing of how the bible describes Noah's Ark. they say it's at the top of the mountain.

Answer 6

Some do. But they don't explain how Noah got polar bears from the artic or kangaroos from Australia or tapirs from South America to the arc or how this animals got back to their place of origin.

Answer 7

yes i do and last i heard, about amonth ago, a new discovery was made by scienthist, and they think it could be the ark,
FYI= did you know that the big barges that float on the oceans that carry huge amount of cargo, and the ones that haul garbage were build from the direction that Noah used ,out of the Bible

Answer 8

smart christian dont take anything in the bible literally. perhaps noah brought all know species on the boat that could have been like 35 different kinds of animals? its possible to make a boat that big

Answer 9

Yeah.

Answer 10

the Bible is the infallible word of God, so I believe in a "literal" Noah's ark.........