What exactly was "Disaster of Noah"?

Question

I mean, what really happened back then, and what was his ship like? I mean, a big wooden ship big enough to contain couples from every animal species? C'mon... How about something more science fiction? A spaceship which can contain genetic information about all living things? What do you think?

And more importantly, how can I find info about "what happened BEFORE Noah"?

Answer 1

Noah's ship actually makes alot of sense. check out Christiananswers.net sometime. I read a book that stated perhaps Noah only took the parents of the different species on the ark and then they may have micro-evovled into their current forms. Don't mistake what i just wrote for evolution, because evolution is macro. Meaning, Noah took the genetic parents of all forms of dog onto the ark as 2 dogs that "did their thing" and spawned the different dogs we have today. Makes sense because out of Adam and Eve (genetic parents) we have many different variations of humans today.

Answer 2

What happened after the Flood is more interesting.

Noah's son Ham finds Noah drunk and naked (oops, sorry Dad)
Noah condemns not Ham but Ham's descendants to slavery in perpetuity (ouch, Dad, that's harsh).

Four questions:

Is slavery moral under any circumstances?
Did the punishment fit the crime?
Is it moral to condemn the children for the "sins" of the father?
Is it correct to assume that fundamentalist Christians support the institution of slavery?

Answer 3

If you believe the Bible, before Noah, God decided to wish that he hadn't created Man, and decided to wipe every living creature off the face of the earth, making the flood the first genocide.

Answer 4

My experience doesn't include the knowledge to be able to tell you what it was like, however, as far as I'm aware it was never really considered a disaster.

As for what happened before, you might want to look toward the "Book of Enoch" as he was alive prior to Noah, as well as other such literature in Jewish folklore.

Answer 5

i had heard there was an old chinese legend from before the time of noah which told the same story. its likely any flood that happened was regional and not global. there are some major flood records for that region at the time.

Answer 6

I sorry but you have been miss informed in the Bible it not species it "kind". A you know species is a subgroup of that.
So indeed it is possible for the boat discribed to contain every kind of animal. This was not a small boat.

Answer 7

Noah’s deluge. To understand you have to start with Gen.6:1.
Gen.6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
The word “men” is Heb. (ha-adham) means “the man Adam” or his progeny. The word “them” is referring to Adam and Eve. The scripture is talking about Adam and Eve’s clan and not mankind. Mankind a subject for another time.
Gen.6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
The term “sons of God” means angels or fallen angels. The word “men” again means Adam and Eve’s progeny or clan. Satan was trying to corrupt God’s plan. That is, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord would come Christ. This is why Eve is called “the mother of all living”.
Gen.6:9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
The word “perfect” Heb. (tamin) means “without blemish as to breed or pedigree”.
Gen.6:17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
The word “earth” Heb. (erets) means “land”, not the whole earth. Besides God says, “to destroy all flesh” in Adam’s clan.
Gen.7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
Gen.8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
If the entire globe had been under water 150 days, where did this olive leaf (pluckt off) come from.
Gen 9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Remember what God said in Gen.6:17, “to destroy all flesh”. Here God makes a covenant with Noah and his sons. Neither shall all flesh be cut off any more. Neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. Two floods. One for flesh, Noah’s deluge. One to destroy the earth back in Gen.1:2. The global flood is a subject for another time.
Some consider the plateau of Pamir to be the original Eden. This probably was the homeland of Adam's descendants up until the time of the Flood. Today it’s known as the Tarim Basin or Eastern Turkestan. This region is surrounded by a ridge of very high mountains forming a gigantic basin in the midst of them. It measures 1,000 miles long and is about 350 miles wide.
Ussher’s Chronology says 2348 B.C., Davidson says November 2345 B.C. to November 2344 B.C. for Noah’s deluge.
Records of the Sumerians in Mesopotamia., their King Lists date to about 3350 B.C., and show an ongoing civilization well through the period of the flood. Egypt felt nothing of the deluge, they had an uninterrupted succession of Dynasties. China's civilization during the Yao Dynasty (between 2400 B.C. – 2200 B.C.) with no record of a cataclysmic interruption.
So Noah’s deluge was a local flood. But there was a global flood in Gen.1:2. Study II Pet.3:5-7, Jer.4:23-27.
Psa.104:6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. Psa.104:7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Answer 8

There are many sources here on the Internet if you really wanted to find out.

but I have the feeling you just want to scorn something you don't understand.

Answer 9

Well assuming you are a creationist, this will help:

http://www.answersincreation.org/flood.htm