Before you call this question stupid check the date of the flood and the years of Methuselah. It's in same year, the chance of escape is thin since the flood started at the begining of the year.
2006-09-05 03:46:02 · 14 answers · asked by Evar-ceako Onyeanusi 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Noah obeyed God.
Gen 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before Me in this generation.
Gen 7:2 You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,
Gen 7:3 and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky--in order to keep offspring alive on the face of the whole earth.
Gen 7:4 Seven days from now I will make it rain on the earth 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe off the face of the earth every living thing I have made."
Gen 7:5 And Noah did everything that the LORD commanded him.
2006-09-05 03:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by steve 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
You assume Methuselah was alive at the time of the flood. While it's true that, if you do the math, he died the same year as the flood, there is no evidence the flood killed him. Remember, his father was Enoch, a very righteous man; we have no reason to believe Methuselah was any different. I'm sure that, had he been alive, God would have instructed Noah to take him.
Peace.
2006-09-05 11:06:08 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What amazes me about the flood story is that people actually believe it's true. It's well known that the flood story is an old pagan tale published in the "Epic Of Gilgamesh". Look it up, folks, before you say otherwise. "Noah" had a different name, but the story is EXACTLY the same, down to the finest details, except for the fact that "Noah" worshipped a pagan sun god.
This story was cannibalized into the Christian bible, the names were changed, and the god was changed to the "universal" god of Christianity. But it's still nothing more than a fairy tale.
If you didn't know this, I'd advise looking into it. The Epic of Gilgamesh is readily available at your local bookstore, and the tablets that it is translated from are some of the oldest (if not the oldest) writings ever discovered. They far predate the Christian bible. Look it up. Read the book. Decide for yourself. But DON'T make the mistake of simply believing the bible just because you've been told to!
If you don't take this sort of approach to understanding your beliefs, then you have no right to take offense when atheists refer to you as a "blind" follower...
2006-09-05 10:57:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
31 more years alive and he would have reached his 1000th year birthday! God had passed judgement on sinner man that "on the day he ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and bad, On That Day, he would definitely die!" Now we all know that one day to God is a thousand years to man...can't remember the scripture, but anyway, that is why Adam and Eve didn't die on That Day litterally. Methuselah would not be able to live over 1000 years, which is A Day To God and was probably too old to reproduce and already close to death anyway which is why he didn't enter the ark. Only Noah and his family, which were capable of carrying on God's plan to fill the earth, worthy enough in that day in God's eyes to reproduce along with the paired up male and female animals.
2006-09-05 11:07:56 · answer #4 · answered by HotInTX 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have once again no clue what the heck you are talking about. So shut your face and quit trying to confuse people.
2006-09-05 14:27:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bible and it's stories are merely exaggerated fairy tales that the elders of the nomadic families would tell while they were sitting around the campfires at night.
Nothing more.
2006-09-05 10:51:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Noah tried but no one would listen to him or believe him.... but then again if you know so much about the Bible you would have known that!!!
2006-09-05 10:49:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Noah was commanded only to take his wife, his three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japeth) and their wives. Otherwise, why didn't Noah take everybody on board?
2006-09-05 10:48:46 · answer #8 · answered by Landon H 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You're trying to make sense of silly stories.... good luck with that
2006-09-05 11:01:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Apparently Methusaleh was a sodomite!
2006-09-05 10:53:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋