I've had a couple of door to door preachers telling me I'm a descendant of Noah.What Religion believes this?

Question

Also can anyone think of any potential problems Noah might have had getting all those animals into the Ark..two by two... and then starting a brave new World? Also did God not want to wipe out all the sea animals? A big Flood wouldn't have harmed them so that doesn't seem fair does it ? Hmmm I'm a bit confused...Help !

Answer 1

Thinking back to my farming relatives in Wales, there are some animals that simply do not go "two by two, one male and one female". Nor even in sevens.

Take sheep, for instance: the accepted ratio is one male ram to every FORTY or FIFTY ewes. Ideally you need several hundred ewes and a minimum of three or four rams to guarantee the best possible gene pool to perpetuate the herd.

Ditto goats = one billy to every five or six nannies - and cattle, one bull for every thirty or so heifers.

And what about chickens: one cockerel to every twenty-five hens?

Surely the ancient Hebrews, as a farming race, would have been aware of things like this? The "two by two" thing sounds incredibly naive, as if the whole thing was dreamt up by a religious commentator who knew nothing about animal husbandry!

This even before we look at the complexities of the insect world... perhaps Noah could have got away with one queen bee and one drone to fertilise her eggs, but what is the status of the vast majority of worker bees in the hive, who are sexually neuter and neither male nor female? Ditto ants? And is it asking for trouble to take termites and woodworm, ie cellulose-eating creatures that breed like nothing else on Earth, aboard a wooden ship?

Indeed, what about fast breeders like rabbits? Or rats? (Perhaps these were meant to be a food resource for the larger carnivores?)

And most water-dwelling creatures would have died anyway, one way or another. The massive mixing of salt and fresh water that would have happened would have poisoned most advanced water-dwelling lifeforms, each of which has its evolutionary niche and can only accept so much or so little salinity in its water - for any given species of fish, try altering the salinity of its environment and seeing what happens. It dies.

This is even before adjusting for what must have been the massive turbulence of the waters in this scenario - try filling a bath-tub with both taps full on and then, while both taps are on full blast, try floating a toy boat in it. It will hit that area that lifeboat and rescue men call "white water" and sink, violently and quickly. (And this sort of massively violent turbulence is not good for fish, either)

And incidentally, where did the water come from? We are told in the infallible and non-contradictory Bible that the Earth was covered to ten feet above its highest level.

OK: calculate how much water is needed to flood the Earth to a depth of Mount Everest plus ten feet. You will need TEN TIMES more water than exists in the Earth's ecosystem.

So where did this 900% excess come from?

The more you look at this...

Now I don't have a problem with accepting that around 4500 years ago, the Black Sea was two-thirds of its current size. The water channel we know as the Dardenelles had not yet been created, so that the Mediterranean and the Black Sea were not connected.

But archaeology tells us that around 5000 - 4500 BC, the Dardanelles were created by the eroding action of the Med - this burst through suddenly and cataclysmically into the Black Sea causing massive but still localised flooding. This explains why so many Middle Eastern civilisations, including the Jewish one, retain folk-myths of an all-destroying flood. It must have felt like one, and the repercussions must have taken many years to settle down.

Answer 2

LOL, for your information, ALL OF US are descended from Noah. unless you believe that 86 people were saved through the flood, like the Koran teaches.

noah didnt have problem gather animals 2 by 2 or 7 at a time!
yes noah collected some animals by the Seven.

the sea animals were saved in the most part because they lived in the water not on dry land.

Dont be confused. Noah did not save all the animals of the earth only those that were led by God to join the ark. At least thats what i was taught.

Before Jesus was born Michael was the absolute ruler of the angels, but when jesus fulfilled the requirements of the saviour he was immediately Exalted. Michael then became eligible for his promotion and exaltation and his office fell upon Gabriel, this is why Gabriel appears to Mary and Joseph instead of Michael.

The godhead is the truth as opposed to the trinity. Eternal progression is both sound and just, but exaltation is given to all the sons of God and the angels of holiness.
if you were confused before, i am sure you are more confused now.

Answer 3

Christians who believe the bible believe this, as do cults that are off shoots of christianity. This questions has been asked in some form or another here on answers. A probability study has shown that it could be done. The Bible says God brought the animals, so Noah would not have had to round them up. He probably did have to hire help to make it and it took about 100 years. It was humungous. Three stories tall (each probably 25 feet), or one could have been taller than the others. There would have been enough room for all the animals, food, waste, etc. The earth is our domain it was created for our environment. God created it and could do with it what he wanted. He did not create animals with souls, so whether they died in a day or a year it really is no difference. The only time it really matters in the grand scheme of things if a human dies in a day or a year is if by living they would have accepted God's plan. Otherwise, dying now rather than later just lessens the evil one can commit.

Answer 4

Only the land animals were in danger of drowning. The sea animals (although billions did die) were relatively safe. Noah wouldn't have had a problem getting all those animals on the Ark, because God was controlling the animals. Also, Noah didn't bring two of every "species", but two of every "kind", which narrows it down to about 8,000 different "kinds". If you bring two of every "kind", that's about 16,000 animals, most of which are not much bigger than a cat. It's not "millions of animals" like the atheists suppose.
To answer your question, yes, all humans today are descended from 8 people on Noah's ark, regardless of the color of your skin, and Noah's family were descended from Adam 1600 years earlier. Both Christianity and Judaism believe this, and several Flood legends from various cultures of antiquity around the world corroborate the story of Noah's Flood. Although they vary in the details, they all pretty much say that a family of 8 was saved from a worldwide Flood on a boat with a bunch of animals.

Answer 5

The door to door preachers were most likely Jehovah's Witnesses.
They will always use the Bible to show their beliefs. You should listen to them, it is important for salvation.

ORIGIN OF NATIONS

ALL mankind descended from the first human pair, Adam and Eve. (Genesis 1:28; 3:20; 5:1, 2) After the Flood, earth’s new population, including all the races and national groups on earth today, descended from Noah through his three sons and their wives, who were survivors of that global Deluge.
So, after listing 70 offspring of the sons of Noah, the Genesis account says: “From these the nations were spread about in the earth.”—Genesis 10:32.

Jesus Christ said: “Just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be.” (Matthew 24:37) Today, Christians are likewise preachers of righteousness, urging people to repent. (2 Peter 3:5-9) Given that analogy, we might wonder what went through Noah’s mind before the Deluge. Did he ever feel that his preaching was useless? Was he tired at times? The Bible does not say. We are simply told that Noah obeyed God.

Do you see the relevance of Noah’s situation to ours? He obeyed God despite opposition and hardship. That is why God judged him righteous. Noah’s family did not know exactly when God would bring the Deluge, but they knew that it would come. Faith in God’s word sustained Noah through years of labor and what may have seemed to be fruitless preaching.
Indeed, we are told: “By faith Noah, after being given divine warning of things not yet beheld, showed godly fear and constructed an ark for the saving of his household; and through this faith he condemned the world, and he became an heir of the righteousness that is according to faith.”—Hebrews 11:7.

Like Noah, true Christians today know that God will soon bring an end to this godless system of things. We do not know that day or hour, but we realize that imitating the faith and obedience of this “preacher of righteousness” will result in “the preserving alive of the soul.”—Hebrews 10:36-39.

More info:

http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/3/1/article_02.htm

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Thanks for the question
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Answer 6

First just tell them to go to the nearest funny farm, Noah would have found it easy because he took all the animals that HE KNEW which were not many, the flood would have been an area that Noah knew, a large area, but not the world world only Noah's world, just think about it, and not what you have read in a book

Answer 7

Any religion that accepts the Book of Genesis must accept that as truth. I'm sure that Noah did indeed have many problems along the way. But God is big enough to fix them. And no, God had no problem with sea life, in fact He had no problem with land animals, which is why He made provision for them in Noah.

Answer 8

well Noah was part of the Old Testament, during a time when Christianity wasnt in existence, so u can say Judaism, but Christians still believe in the OT as well so its both Jud. and Chris., well it was God's plan to have the animals placed on the Ark and because it was His hand that was involvedi doubt Noah had any SERIOUS trouble, as far as the sea animals thing goes, good question!...i've been in church all my life and never thought of that

Answer 9

1. We are all descended from a single female, this has been genetically proven, of course, you could have just believed it when the Bible said it first.

2. Technically, it is not certain that Moses would have taken EVERY species aboard, (clean and unclean would not necessarily include dinosaurs, which would have died during the flood.)

3. The worldwide flood is accepted to be almost a certainty, even by most scientists who are atheists, (although they will try to say it happened millions of years ago). This flood would explain much of the fossil record, as well as the innaccuracies of current dating methods, (such as radio-carbon dating), but of course, they don't want to go there, (they might not like what they find).

Answer 10

Well, all the Abrahamic religions believe that everyone on earth is a descendent of Noah. If you beleive the bible is truth then Noah, the wife and his kids and their wives where the only people left after the flood.
The two by two thing is not the real story...only unclean animals went two by two...
And maybe the water was fresh water so all the sea animals did die...=)

Religion is confusing...especially the Abrahamic one's!

BTW...put a smurf on your door, they are likely to stay away because smurfs are considered evil by most door knocking religions....or just tell them you are a Pagan, Catholic or Jew....that usually gets them to turn and run...