2006-12-04 05:30:12 · 25 answers · asked by badferret 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Cute ferret. I wonder if two of those were on the ark. Think about it, two of every animal? Lets suppose that 2 of every animal went on the ark. A lot of those would be leaving in another animal's stomach.
2006-12-04 05:34:53 · answer #1 · answered by Olly Octopus 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The flood story comes from the Bible. There is also a flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Different floods? Different tellings of the same flood? So what? Learn the lessons. Acknowledge God.
For those who don't, program a supercomputer with a list of the components of the human genome. Let it run day and night with a random sequence generator until it comes up (by chance) with the human genome.
Acknowledge the computer or chance or whatever you like. It will never be able to arrange that list, much less create working models of all of the other things that have been put in order in this world.
There is a greater chance that the individual parts of a set of lincoln logs dumped onto the floor by a child will fall into place as a house. Yet life is infintely more complex.
Yeah. There are questions about the Epic of Gilgamesh. Other things too. None of them change either the foundation or the end-game. Don't sweat the small stuff. Acknowledge God.
2006-12-04 06:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by Eric O 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes everyone is aware of the story of Gilgamesh which is Babylonian. ( Modern Iraq/Iran) The ancient Egyptians also have a similar flood account in their historical record. The Biblical record is written from a different perspective.
Carbon dating has been proved inaccurate. Archaeologists, geologists have confirmed with evidence that a major flood occurred by simply looking at rocks. Fossils that should not be on the tops of mountains bare out the fact that it did occur globally and not just regionally.
The ark has been found on Mt Ararat, but outsiders have been forbidden to go there by the government. It is located on a dangerous cliff, encased in ice. Pictures of the Ark exist from satellite imaging. It just happens to be exactly where the Biblical account says it is.
2006-12-04 05:57:43 · answer #3 · answered by Sassy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you know that the story of Atlantis comes from Noah's flood? The Greeks were very interested in Hebrew culture and took the name Atlantis after Hebrew - "lan" comes from the word land, but more accurately means people, tis is the Greek word "the" and "At" is a Hebraism meaning the name Adam, thus Atlantis means "people of Adam". Read between the lines and you can clearly see it is a dramatic version of Noah's flood. The Hawaiians and ancient Brazilians also have a story of a large flood and both refer to them as "Anoah" or something like that.
2006-12-04 06:01:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible was written way before the Epic of Gilgamesh. And The Flood was true.
2006-12-04 05:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by godsapostolic 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
A legend of the flood (deluge) is the only thing common to man, which was recently discovered by a world-wide scientific survey. However science also proves there was no world-wide flood; And the Bible defines itself as "allegory": Galatians 4: 24, also as "mystery" over 20 times in the NT. What's written in the Bible is also written "aforetime" for our "learning": Romans 15:4. So it's allegoric mystery to solve, and it's not to be taken literally. It's more like a spiritual training course than a history book.
As for the biblical story of Noah's Ark, the interesting thing is Noah got contrary commands from two different commanders; And Noah did both all God commanded AND all the LORD commanded, which are as contrary as two and seven, also as contrary as law (sacrifice) and grace (keep seed alive).
As for the NBC movie Noah's Ark, it's full of biblical errors.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2006-12-04 05:43:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just because there are flood stories in many lands does not mean that the occurrence of the flood written in the Bible was taken from one of them. Many years passed between the time of the flood and when Jehovah God had Moses write of it's occurrence. The account of the flood in the Bible is directly inspired by God making it accurate, not like all the stories all over the earth where the account was passed along by the generations of it's people making for inaccuracies.
2006-12-04 05:36:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Epic of Gilgamesh is found on clay tablets from teh 7th Cent BC. Which happened will after the flood. The story of the flood is told in the book of Genesis in the bible, which was written prior to the Epic. Better luck next time
At least the Epic gives adds extrabiblical (outside of the bible) evidence
2006-12-04 05:39:26 · answer #8 · answered by WhatIf 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Are you aware that there is a Flood myth for every culture? Did they all steal from Gilgamesh or perhaps there was a flood in which a man built a huge boat, carried some animals, and survived? I highly doubt that the Greek, Chinese and Indian all stole the same story.
2006-12-04 05:33:24 · answer #9 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Sounds like you are convinced, anyway. There are numerous flood accounts, and you would expect as much, if all civilization has descended from Noah and his immediate family. Oral traditions abound, but the account in Genesis was obviously dictated by God to Moses. That is the only account worth comparing with as the source is much more reliable.
2006-12-04 05:39:00 · answer #10 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow-has this question been done to death...Every religion has a flood story cause it was a WORLD WIDE event- so obviously it effected the WORLD. So yes there are many versions of the story- and no... Gilgamesh is not the oldest story of Noah found as fake one or two website may say-real science proves otherwise.
2006-12-04 05:34:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋