Please, I really wanna know this about Noah. Bible quotes please!?

Question

I asked this before, but for some reason I get no real answers...

After the flood it was obviously only Noah, his family and a bunch of animals left on this planet.

Noah had to decide which humans were going to carry the diseases which only occur in humans. Humans are the only host for numerous diseases (just to name a few: measles, typhus, typhoid fever, smallpox, leprosy, poliomyelitis, five types of syphilis, hepatitis, shingles, four types of rnalarial par­asites, two types of tapeworm, an intestinal worm, hookworm, three agents of filariasis, two species of Schistosoma, pinworm, three types of lice, various types of fever)

The disease "kuru" only occurs in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Which family member did he instruct to go and pick the brains of a kuru sufferer so that the natives of the highlands of Papua New Guinea can enjoy the disease today? Is there anything about this in the Bible? I really can't find it.

Answer 1

Deuteronomy 28:61:

61Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed

Who made the rule that every sickness and disease had to be brought on the ark? Behold, I will do a new thing.

Answer 2

The 'flood' is a much older story, the The Epic of Gilgamesh, A 3rd millennium BCE story from Babylon, found on Sanskrit tablets at the Hittite palaces in what is modern Turkey, and they describe a flood which archaeologists have actually found some evidence to substantiate. It is a land which lies below the Black Sea. This an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Anatolia that was created when the Mediterranean Sea broke through the Bosporus.

In 1997, William Ryan and Walter Pitman from Columbia University published a theory that a massive flood through the Bosporus occurred in ancient times. They claim that the Black and Caspian Seas were vast freshwater lakes, but that about 5600 BC, the Mediterranean spilled over a rocky sill at the Bosporus, creating the current communication between the Black and Mediterranean Seas. Subsequent work has been done both to support and to discredit this theory, and archaeologists still debate it. This has led some to associate this catastrophe with prehistoric flood myths.

Since the old testament is concerned with the day to day life of an little politically insignificant bunch of shepherds between two large empires, Egypt, and the Hittites, the fact that 4000 square miles disappeared below water, would have been a world flood to them, their own kingdom was a few hills of some 400 square miles in size.

Answer 3

1. Building the Ark

Wood is not the best material for shipbuilding. It is not enough that a ship be built to hold together; it must also be sturdy enough that the changing stresses don't open gaps in its hull. Wood is simply not strong enough to prevent separation between the joints, especially in the heavy seas that the Ark would have encountered. The longest wooden ships in modern seas are about 300 feet, and these require reinforcing with iron straps and leak so badly they must be constantly pumped. The ark was 450 feet long [ Gen. 6:15]. Could an ark that size be made seaworthy?

Answer 4

It hasn't occured to you yet that these diseases could easily have survived the flood? They are mostly virii, and many could have mutated from an original virus that Noah actually did have, and became kuru or smallpox or what-have-you.

Answer 5

Hee-hee! God put the germs back on Earth after the Flood to control the population growth caused by incestuous copulation among His Children...

Answer 6

Diseases evolved over time as man spread out over the earth and was introduced to different climates and diets and cultural behaviors.

Answer 7

There's nothing about these diseases in the Bible, probably because the Bible is not (nor was ever meant to be) a medical reference book.

It's also probably because these diseases developed later -- as diseases tend to do.

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Answer 8

Well, I guess you proved that God does not exist. So, live your life the way you want. It makes no difference. When you die you become worm food. And if your philosophy is correct, the worm will eventually die too. If you are wrong, then you and the worm burn.

Answer 9

Which is why not every Christian believes that the flood was total. Some hold the position that it was local.

Answer 10

Your question is amusing, although not to a fundamentalist, who will simply be insulted instead of realizing you have shown their beliefs to be nonsense. They confuse themselves with their beliefs.

Regretfully, fundamentalists are not able to comprehend anything that refutes their nonsense or realize they are not their silly beliefs.