Do you believe in Noah's Ark and the Flood?

Answer 1

First things first. Leave god out of this. He has nothing to do with it. Now to answer the question. YES and NO.
Yes there was a flood all over the world. We know this from geological evidence. At the end of the last ice age when the when the ice caps started melting the sea level rose over 150 metres in a few hundred years. Now that is fast and must have devastated and flooded all shore or close to the shore habitation. It flooded valleys and turned them into lakes etc. This kind of thing tends to be remembered in folk stories all over the world. Which brings me to the NO. In the east Mediterranean alone there are at least 3 mentions of the flood. In the epic of Gilgamesh, In Greek mythology known as the flood of Deukalion, and the Noah legend which seems to have borrowed most of the scenario from the other two. The Chinese have a version and so do the native of both north and south America. Why should I believe one version over another over a geological event that happens all the time. I can have only preferences. I do not like Noah and his vengeful god.

Answer 2

it is not even a metaphor or an allegory--it is not even unique--all of us with any intelligence can somewhat rather see that the hebrews plagarized the story from the sumerian epic of gilgamesh--that's some thousand years older than the noah tale. there is not any evidence of a international huge flood--in fact--each center pattern ever taken in the sea deeps falsifies the flood tale right (a international flood could go away a sparkling deliniation international huge in the sea deeps of such an experience--the layer could be unmistakable and recent everywhere if the story have been real--and is absent everywhere). The sumerian tale in all probability resulted from the generational telling of the time whilst the med flooded the low mendacity marshy black sea area. To neolithic inhabitants of that area--whilst that black sea area flooded--it could have appeared as though the entire international have been. The ancestors of this disaster could have ultimately made it to the midsection east--and their tale integrated into the gilgamesh epic.

Answer 3

Well flood myths have been through all of history, in every mythology. So while not a Christian, in fact as a FORMER Christian who found thier true path, yes, I believe in a Great Flood.

No, I do not believe in Noah's Ark.

Answer 4

No

Couldn't god have just clicked his fingers and made everyone disappear instead have having everybody drowned?

How do you get so many animals on a single boat? Feed them? Care for them? Make sure they don't eat each other? What if one of an animal pair dies? How can you collect specimens for every species of vegetation from around the world?

Where did all the water go afterward?

What did they all eat after the flood? Bearing in mind that all vegeation had been underwater for 40 days and no agriculture imediately available?

Hell just think about the whole thing for five minutes and you see it just falls apart.

Answer 5

GENEALOGY OF JESUS TO FLOOD TO MOSES TO SOLOMON

Add ages a son had a son [ or and event ], sums the time then at hand.

#01. Adam 130, Gen.5:3, #02. Seth 105, #03. Enos 90, #04. Cainan 70, #05. Mahalaleel 65, #06. Jared 162, #07. Enoch 65, #08. Methusaleh 187 [ dies in flood year ], #09. Lamech 182 = year 1056 to #10 Noah Gen.7:6 age 600 = flood year 1656 Plus 350 years after the flood to death of Noah in year 2006, [ Gen.11:10 Shem age 98 plus 350 is age 448, in year 2006]. 1656, age 98 at Gen.11:10; #11. Shem plus 2, #12. Arphaxad 35, #13. Salah 30, #14. Eber 34, #15. Peleg 30 [ Babel tower, about 4000 able bodied men ], #16. Rue 32, #17. Serug, #18. Nahor 29, #19. Terah, Gen.11:32 [ 205 less ]130 year = 2008, #20. Abraham Gen.12:4 is 75 = 2083 Gen.15:13,16 [ has covenant for 4th generation. Matt.1:1-17; Jesus will be #62 ]. Abraham 2008, to age 175 dies Gen.25:7 year 2183. Ishmael 2094, age 89 = 2183. Isaac 2108, age 75 = 2183 + 105 = 2288. Isaac 2108 age 60 Jacob born 2168 age 130 in year 2298, Gen.47:9,11; + 28 [ less 215 = 2083 in Canaan ], is now in Ramese Egypt where son Joseph from age 30 to 40 has been governor, Gen.47:28 AT year 17, in 2315, Jacob dies. Joseph age 57 has 53 years, dies year 2368, after world began. Gen.50:26; the book of Genesis ends. From Rameses Egypt year 2298 it is Exo.7:7; 12:40,41 430 years to Moses and the Exodus [ 2083 + 215 Canaan and 215 Egypt. Exo.6:18-23, 26 4th generation]. Year 2513 + 40 wilderness Deut.1:3; 29:5; 34:7 Moses dies.Year 2553 or 1513 before Christ.1Ki.6:1; 480 and 36 is Solomon[ = 3069 1Ki.11:42]; 997 before Christ.
Cyrus 536 BCE.
Greece 336 BCE
Maccabees 164 BCE
Rome in Judah 62 BCE.

Answer 6

yes i believe it more than just a story. in fact we are like what noah is experiencing now, as god keeps urging us to turn back to him in the mid of this sinful world but i think we are all waiting for the 'flood' to come while a few good noah is busily heeding god's advice to build his ark!

Answer 7

yes...........Noah's Ark was a massive vessel built at God's command to save Noah, his family, and a core stock of the world's animals from the Great Flood.

Answer 8

No...and before Noah and the Flood there was Gilgamesh and the flood and I believe neither. However, I do believe that there was a large localized flood in those areas but not worldwide.

Answer 9

Noah believed in his Ark.................... :)

Does the Ark represent "new beginnings"?

What is the purpose of myth in the bible? Is this true?

Answer 10

I believe there was probably a regional flood at some point in history that a guy survived by riding it out on a boat ... and when people told the story they exaggerated it like people always do ... and the end result is the story of Noah's Ark and the Flood ... which is almost entirely nonsense.