According to the Bible did it rain before the great flood of Noah's time?

Question

If it did not rain, where did the waters come from that nourished the plants and quenched the thirsts of the people and animals?

Answer 1

No, it didn't rain. There was a mist that watered the plants, grass and trees and also natural springs.

Answer 2

No--the flood was the first time it rained that the Bible speaks of.

Local floods come and go in a matter of days; this one lasted over a year, the greater portion of which was required for the water to subside. How unreasonable to believe that Noah spent perhaps 50 years building a huge vessel of approximately 40,000 cu m (1,400,000 cu ft) for the survival of his family and a few animals through a mere local flood! If only a comparatively small area was affected, why the need of bringing into the ark specimens of “every living creature of every sort of flesh” in order to “preserve offspring alive on the surface of the entire earth”? (Ge 6:19; 7:3) Definitely this was a global deluge, the like of which had never occurred before nor has since. “The waters overwhelmed the earth so greatly that all the tall mountains that were under the whole heavens came to be covered. Up to fifteen cubits [c. 6.5 m; 22 ft] the waters overwhelmed them and the mountains became covered.” (Ge 7:19, 20) “The end of all flesh has come before me,” Jehovah said, hence “I will wipe every existing thing that I have made off the surface of the ground.” And it was just so. “Everything in which the breath of the force of life was active in its nostrils, namely, all that were on the dry ground, died . . . only Noah and those who were with him in the ark kept on surviving.”—Ge 6:13; 7:4, 22, 23.

Answer 3

It did no longer rain till now the flood. and surely, most of the water for the flood did no longer come from rain. The bible says that, "each and all the fountains of the super deep burst forth". it is what provided most of the water. till now the flood, most of the sea water replaced into locked deep interior the earth, between the granite and the basalt basement layer. The earth replaced into plenty flatter at that component and there replaced into so plenty greater land mass. The flood began whilst the crust of the earth cracked and this water shot forth with great stress. because of the fact the earth replaced into plenty flatter, this water coated the earth. in case you flatten out the earth on the instant, there is sufficient water to cover the earth very deep. so as that's what happened. Then the load of the water pushed down on the skinny areas of the crust and the water ran down, forming oceans. This relatively pushed up the thicker areas of the earth forming continents. in case you surely need to check a good purchase greater approximately this flood, get the e book, "interior the commencing up" with tips from Walt Brown. I especially advise it. And Walt isn't purely some schmuck who wrote a e book. Walt's credentials are relatively spectacular.

Answer 4

All these claims about it not raining are pure speculation. The Bible says absolutely nothing about whether there was rain before the mythical flood or not.

Were the laws of physics different in the past? There is no reason to think so. Condensation and precipitation happened in the past just like it does now.

And for the record: The Flood tale is just that. A morality tale. Not history.

Answer 5

The bible says it had never rained before. Also, check out this verse that I recently read as I've been reading 2 Kings... NOTHING is too great for God!!!.

2 Kings 3:16-18
This is what the LORD says: Make this valley full of ditches. For this is what the LORD says: You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this valley will be filled with water, and you, your cattle and your other animals will drink. This is an easy thing in the eyes of the LORD;

Answer 6

No it did not rain. Water sprung up out of the earth.
Gen 2:6 But streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Answer 7

No, it rained before but the laws of physics did not exist. A rainbow is a refraction of light, simple basic law of physic, but the bible said that god created a rainbow to show that he would never again flood the world. Maybe peole were in black and white back then. You never know.

Answer 8

It did not rain before the flood. All water came forth from springs in the ground.

Answer 9

I do not know for sure, but I have been told that there was a great mist hanging over the earth. It was so moist all the time that we didn't need rain.

Answer 10

No, it didn't rain, but I wasn't there.