if the story about noah's ark is true where?

Question

did all the water come from to completly cover the world and where did it go after

Answer 1

from what I can see, things do not have to be true, if you got good imagination and can make enough things up . the you write it all down. turn it into a book and say it was some special god and you have the makings of a new religion. people are gullable tell them lies and they believe tell them the truth and they call you a blasfemma and that you will get damedd to hell that is how conmen work they give you a story and expect you to believe it and some people are dull enough to believe them and that is how stories are spred .

Answer 2

In the early beginnings of earths creation there was a water canopy that covered the earth. Genesis chapter1 verses 6-8 makes reference to this. When God decided to bring about the deluge to wipe man off the face of the earth, He told Noah " Here I am bringing the deluge of waters upon the earth"( Genesis 6:17). Describing what happened, the next chapter says "All the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened" (Genesis 7:11) So overwhelming was the deluge that "all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered." (Genesis 7:19) The waters suspended above the expanse evidently remained there from the second creative day until the flood. Even the apostle Peter made reference to this if when we read 2Peter 3:5,6. So, where do you think the waters are now? Evidently the waters are still here on the earth. It is believed that our oceans were much smaller and the continents were larger than they are now, as is evidenced by river channels extending far out into the oceans. Scientists have stated that mountains in the past were much lower than at present, and some mountains have been pushed up from under the seas. Today there is about 326 million cu mi of water on the earth. It covers more than 70 % of the globes surface. The average depth of the oceans is 2.5 mi, average elevation of the land is 0.5 mi above sea level. If the earth's surface were smoothed out, it would all be covered with water to a depth of 8,000 ft.
I hope this was helpful to you, Take Care.
Athena--62

Answer 3

The stories of both Noah and Gilgamesh were written when people didn't have a clear picture of how large the planet is.

Take into consideration that if you're from a civilization that believes you'll fall off of the edge of the world where monsters dwell, that the flooding of an entire geographic region due to earthquake, natural flooding caused by rain or tectonic shift will give the illusion of "the entire world" being covered with water.

Thousands of years ago due to natural disasters there is scientific proof that some regions did become submerged and many large lakes and inland seas were created.

A scenario: 10- to 12,000 years ago there was a massive shift in the tectonic plates that are now in (and created) the Mediterranian...you live there and have never traveled too far from home and suddenly you get overcome by a wave from a tsunami...ironically enough on a rare day that it rains. This is also the time that the ice age was coming to an end.

Sounds like a good foundation for a story to me.

Think about the regions involved in the two stories. Now think about the number of earthquakes that occur there now.

Answer 4

Although the Bible tells the story of Noah's Ark and says that flood water covered the whole earth it is much more likely that it covered a large area; the people did not travel far like we do now and could not communicate over distances as we do with phones and internet. So people would think that the whole world was flooded because everything they knew was wiped out by the flood.
Some historians and geologists believe that a massive, devastating flood did occur where the mediteranean sea is now. They think that there was dry land between Gibralter (spanish/ european coast) and Ceuta (Morrocan/ african coast) Something happened to cause this to flood and where once there was land there is now a sea.
In Greek mythology these two points of land are called 'The Pillars of Hercules' and they mark the entrance to the Straits of Gibralter; this was once thought to be the end of the world.

Other historians believe that the biblical flood was more likely to have happened when the Black Sea flooded.

Liberal Christians typically regard the Noahic, Babylonian, and hundreds of other flood stories as a myths. Many might linked in some way with a historical flood. The legend of a universal, worldwide flood, as in the Genesis account, might be an interesting myth with spiritual significance; however, it did not happen in reality. There is no source of sufficient water to produce a world-wide flood that covered the highest mountains. Even if it did happen, there is no place to which the flood waters could subside. Genesis was written over an interval of many centuries by at least five author/editors. The universal flood story was derived from an earlier Babylonian myth by two of these authors. The Genesis flood myth is obviously based on an earlier Babylonian myth; there are many correspondences between the two legends. The Babylonian myth appears to be based on an earlier legend that, in turn, might well have been based on dimly remembered memories of the Black Sea catastrophe

Answer 5

There was a water vapour canopy round the earth which could be why people lived to such an old age, something to do with pressure. That's why the bible says it was a deluge. And also the waters of the deep came up from the earth. For which they have now found significant evidence if you do your home work. The waters declined because of the shift possibly in the earths tilt giving us the poles and the equator. So natural evaporation and the fact that the waters of the deep went back into the earth. Seas were also formed. This isn't a joke. These things need your study, information is readily available from renowned scientists.

Answer 6

Yes, and No, yes there was a flood, and it is said a man named Noah did build a ark, and fill it with animals, however truth here changes with facts, there is not enough water on the planet even if the ice caps melted to flood the world as suggested, but if we look back at the tie this was suppose to have happened, and what i believe is more like he truth if this happened, is the world that Noah knew flooded, not the world, think how much of the world would he have known in those days, and how often even to day we see large floods in places. I think that Noah was in a place that got flooded and for as far as he could see was water, if he had been able to move the ark he could have sailed to dry land, instead of either waiting for the water to go down, or the ark to drift to dry land

Answer 7

When Noah completed the Ark, he and his family and the animals entered, and "the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." The flood covered even the highest mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet, and all creatures on Earth died; only Noah and those with him on the Ark were left alive.[2]

Finally, after about 220 days, the Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat, and the waters receded for another forty days until the mountaintops emerged. Then Noah sent out a raven which "went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth". Next, Noah sent a dove out, but it returned having found nowhere to land. After a further seven days, Noah again sent out the dove, and it returned with an olive leaf in its beak, and he knew that the waters had subsided. Noah waited seven days more and sent out the dove once more, and this time it did not return. Then he and his family and all the animals left the Ark, and Noah made a sacrifice to God, and God resolved that he would never again curse the ground because of man, and never again would He destroy all life on it in this manner.[3]

In order to remember this promise, God put a rainbow in the clouds, saying, "Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."[4]

Answer 8

Some people thought it came from under the earth and went back there - this is an argument in favour of a hollow earth which was discredited as soon as the idea was put forward in the 19th century - if it came from underground what would have stopped it rushing back there under the force of gravity? Perhaps an intervening miracle. As one of the other answerers said its impossible to have two of every species on a ship and feed them for 40 days - consider how many large carnivores they'd be. If a species went down to two then inbreeding would stop it becoming a healthy species again. I'm glad you posted this question in mythology and not religion.

Remember, religion is only a myth that hasn't gone out of date yet.

Answer 9

Back to the Firmament in the sky. That is why you can see the Sun and the moon during the day. Everybody knows that the moon is the back side of the Sun. When you see the moon during the day, you are actually seeing a double reflection of the back side of the Sun (the Moon) which is reflected off the interior surface of the "Firmament" (Where God keeps the water he used for Noah's flood) it is then re-reflected to the opposite interior side of the Firmament where it appears normal in the sky. I hope this explains it for you.

Answer 10

If, and I stress the IF, it did happen, and it was a piece of divine intervention, surely there would not be a logical explanation anyway. God surely would be able to make water appear from nowhere as he is God and can do anything. Also, the story has a massive flaw anyway: what about the sea life? They ain't gonna be drowning in any water.