Did it ever rain prior to Noah?

Question

Regarding my question about rainbows, some people told me that it never rained prior to Noah.


but again, I have records pre-dating what would be the time of Noah that refer to rain. ( we can date Noah usind the bible's reference to years and geneology ) Heck, there are cave- drawings of rain.

that doesn't seem to make sense to me.

what gives?

Answer 1

Only possible explanation: The hyperbolic ice shield (mentioned previously by tim) some how filtered the light, and without the proper wavelengths of light there were no rainbows!

Of course since the rainbow covers the entire visible spectrum, that would mean that there was no light at all.... They probably used flashlights allot.

Answer 2

Noah and deluge story did not occure as it is written.There was a deluge in history in high mgnitude but did not destroy the whole lifeon earth.rainbow is only a symbolic explanation.It rained before Noah and after Noa , and there should be rainbows even before noah .ranbow is a natural phenomenon due to water and sunlight.And not a covenant symbol as believed by jews.Noah ark is rather a symbolic story than history and a different version of sumerian deluge mythological story.So do not worry about its histiricity, but take the message of sin and its cosequences.Noah's Ark is symbolically the the ark of salvasion through jesus christ and his church as the community of believers.

Answer 3

Had it never rained piror to norah)or the time frame the bible claims he lived in there would have never been a record(religious or not) of norah or of anyone else. the earth would have been a barren desert unable ot substain life.
We have year around grren here with the trees or most of them keeping their leaves al year around. We now ar ein a16 year drought wiht last year being the only year close to our annual average, and you can already see that mos tof our free flowing creeks are dried up, our rivers are getitng smaller, ponds are drying up. If this continues we will eventually become a first a grass/scrub area than a desert. With the big farmers and new population taking most of the water as fast as it falls our under ground resouorces are gone as far as water is concerned. YOu can tell by the underground rivers which are now allowiing salt water tides ot push futher inland.

Answer 4

Some scholars think that the atmospher was acutally different. They belive that there was actually a layer of moisture around the earth. There is a biblica reference to this, but it amounts to half a sentence somewere in the first five books.

Second scholars who do believe this feel that this is why there was never a rainbow before the great flood.

Of course to go along with this idea, you have to believe that the great flood was worldwide and regional, the way some archeologists are stating now.

Answer 5

You already know what the Biblical answer (Genesis 2:5,6) is.

To defend that answer against the argument you are trying to supply, I would have to know what those documents were, and would also have to know by what method they were dated, and I'd also to have to know how the efficacy of that method in pinpointing/comparing the timing of two events would be affected by the change, over time, of certain "constants" whose constancy has recently come into question, namely: the speed of light
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6092

Other factors to take into account would be: possibility of change of rates of the rotation of the earth on its axis and the rate of its revolution around the sun.

Think of how THAT discovery would expose the whole quibbling "six days vs. billions of years" debate between Creationist Scientists and Evolutionists as the silly waste of time for all parties concerned that it is.

Didn't I hear talk of a world epidemic on its way????

Answer 6

No it had never rained before Noah, there was a mist that came up from the ground and kept everything alive. A rainbow is the promise God made to Noah, he said every time he would get soooooo, mad at mankind and would want to destroy him again ,he would set his bow in the sky and he would look down on his bow and remember his promise to Noah, not to destroy man by a flood again. I look up at a rainbow, and I know God is looking down at it at the same time, it is a beautiful thought, me looking up and him looking down at the same time.

Answer 7

Since Noah resides in the same category as Snow White, it hardly matters.

And yes, it has rained on this old earth since before there was life of ANY kind. In fact, without condensation we wouldn't HAVE life on earth. What do you think helped the early earth to cool enough to get oceans of water instead of just steam in the atmosphere, like Venus?

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Where are the records from? I've never seen anything referring to rain before that. I'm curious.

Answer 10

I dont see anywhere in the bible where it says it never rained. I t would have had to have rained to feed and nourish the crops of the Earth.