If the story of Noah and the Flood is one of God miracles...?

Question

If God made sure that two of every living thing survived the flood by some miracle, why build and Arc in the first place? Why didn't God just wisk everything that he wanted to save away to a safe place? Why build a boat? What would the point be?

Yeah, I got the part about wiping out the earth...just wondering why he needed a big wooden boat

again with the testing. What he testing to see if Noah could build a boat? if so why?

Answer 1

The short answer is that the story of Noah and the ark is a myth. The long answer is below.

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The Urantia Book -- Part III. The History Of Urantia
PAPER 78: Section 7.
The Floods In Mesopotamia
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78:7.1 The river dwellers were accustomed to rivers overflowing their banks at certain seasons; these periodic floods were annual events in their lives. But new perils threatened the valley of Mesopotamia as a result of progressive geologic changes to the north.

78:7.2 For thousands of years after the submergence of the first Eden the mountains about the eastern coast of the Mediterranean and those to the northwest and northeast of Mesopotamia continued to rise. This elevation of the highlands was greatly accelerated about 5000 B.C., and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring throughout the Euphrates valley. These spring floods grew increasingly worse so that eventually the inhabitants of the river regions were driven to the eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years scores of cities were practically deserted because of these extensive deluges.

78:7.3 Almost five thousand years later, as the Hebrew priests in Babylonian captivity sought to trace the Jewish people back to Adam, they found great difficulty in piecing the story together; and it occurred to one of them to abandon the effort, to let the whole world drown in its wickedness at the time of Noah's flood, and thus to be in a better position to trace Abraham right back to one of the three surviving sons of Noah.

78:7.4 The traditions of a time when water covered the whole of the earth's surface are universal. Many races harbor the story of a world-wide flood some time during past ages. The Biblical story of Noah, the ark, and the flood is an invention of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian captivity. There has never been a universal flood since life was established on Urantia. The only time the surface of the earth was completely covered by water was during those Archeozoic ages before the land had begun to appear.

78:7.5 But Noah really lived; he was a wine maker of Aram, a river settlement near Erech. He kept a written record of the days of the river's rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the family animals be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the neighboring river settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only Noah and his immediate family were saved in their houseboat.

78:7.6 These floods completed the disruption of Andite civilization. With the ending of this period of deluge, the second garden was no more. Only in the south and among the Sumerians did any trace of the former glory remain.

78:7.7 The remnants of this, one of the oldest civilizations, are to be found in these regions of Mesopotamia and to the northeast and northwest. But still older vestiges of the days of Dalamatia exist under the waters of the Persian Gulf, and the first Eden lies submerged under the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.

Answer 2

Anything writtened whether it be a bible or a historical text is based mainly on the interpretations of the writer - how the write perceived the event to had happened. Just like when you hear or witness something, your interpretation is different from another person. That way we say, 'people hear what they want to hear'. You do, however, pointed out some good points about the story of Noah. Scientifically proven that the event was just a localized event. It's good to have faith in God, or whatever name each cultures has for God.

Answer 3

God loved his creation enough to want to sustain a portion of it to begin again. So he chose a righteous man and asked him to build an ark for the saving of his family and the animals.
Noah is a picture of Christ. Christ became the ark of safety for all mankind, all who would be willing to enter the ark will be saved from the flood of sin. It is a choice. God has a purpose for everything. He could have just destroyed it all and started all over again, but He had a plan, and he has a promise to fulfill. The promise was made to satan in the garden of Eden... the seed of the woman shall bruise your head... Jesus is the seed who did just that... If God had destroyed all mankind at that point, no seed of the woman would have existed. God cannot lie... so... He had Noah build an ark...

Answer 4

To demonstrate the faith and obedience of Noah. It took him 120 years to build a boat on dry land, after hearing a 5 word sermon. Noah it's going to rain.

Answer 5

What is miracle? It is an accomplishment beyond man's knowledge and imagination. When it was not explained, we call it superstition; when we wrongly explain it, we call it science. For us, the computer is science; for the primitive man 6 thousand ago, it was miracle. Computer is amazing, but it cannot help solving our problem of ignorance. I have thousands of books in my computer, but my brain cannot conceive the whole concept of love.
Believers in all generations rightly believe that the One True God is omnipotent, so they use stories to illustrate it. Six thousand years ago, the story of Noah was really impressive. People nowadays still use it to illustrate the lessons of morality, cooperation, patience, reproduction, hope...
Today, many people still cannot understand the omnipotence of God; newest and most convincing stories will be told for future generations to again accuse as empty fairy tales!
If we had some spirituality, we might understand the omnipotence of God through the daily effects of His divine love, instead of through controversial stories.

Answer 6

It took Noah over 100 years to build the ark. The reason it took so long was to give the rest of the people time to repent.

Answer 7

for the same reason he sent the angel to mary instead of joseph--noah looked like an idiot building a boat in the middle of his backyard thousands of miles from water--people were ripping on him day and night--it was to test noah's faith

Answer 8

It was mercy. It took Noah over 100 years to make the ark. That was enough time to allow people to repent. They didn't. They drowned.

Here we are, a bunch of Noah's descendants.

Answer 9

To test the obedience of Man

Answer 10

To confound you. You must be a faithful believer to get the true message from Noah's Ark.