2007-01-15 12:52:35 · 22 answers · asked by mullah robertson 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Scott Justice -- That is precisely why I am asking this question.
2007-01-15 13:14:48 · update #1
The idea that people believe that it hadn't rained before the flood makes christianity exponentially more unbelievable.
2007-01-15 13:09:50 · answer #1 · answered by Scott Justice 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Haha, "it never rained before that." You don't need rain to make rainbows, I saw them all the time in the mist over Niagara Falls! What, there was never any mist before the Flood, and the sun never shined through it? The Noah story never happened, it's a just-so tale invented by primitive goat-ropers to try and explain where rainbows came from, like an Aesop's Fable explaining how the elephant got its trunk.
2007-01-15 21:01:35 · answer #2 · answered by Antique Silver Buttons 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO! rainbows need rain and before the flood there was no rain! a mist went up and watered the earth After the flood God Gave his promise that there would never be another flood and He set His bow in the cloud.
2007-01-15 21:00:54 · answer #3 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes: according to the Bible, God made the rainbow a sign of the covenant with His people that the earth would never flood again. So it already existed, He just gave it a new meaning.
2007-01-15 21:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not seen in the sky, which really isn't that unlikely since the population of the world was relatively small, and good conditions for one are rare in most parts of the world.
There may have been the pattern of colors refracted before that such as in a waterfall like at Niagara Falls, but it simply had not been seen in the clouds by human eyes before that.
2007-01-15 21:03:43 · answer #5 · answered by Holly Marie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No,the rainbow was created as a symbol of the promise God gave to man that He would never again destroy the earth by flood.
That's what I've been taught.
2007-01-15 22:26:14 · answer #6 · answered by Georgewasmyfavorite 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-15 21:03:47 · answer #7 · answered by metoo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I say no.
Genesis 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
2007-01-15 21:03:10 · answer #8 · answered by littledreamergirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Unless the laws of physics were completely rewritten to accomodate the refraction of light.
But it is a moot question, there was no great flood.
Addition: I live in Hawaii, the Rainbow State. You don't need rain to see rainbows, just water vapor in the air: mist, fog, water fountains, etc.
2007-01-15 20:57:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
lover, have you ever seen England, it rains for like 6 month periods... :-P
To answer the question, the laws of physics haven't changed anytime lately so I would say yes there were rainbows when it rained before that.
2007-01-15 21:01:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Was that the flood of the Mississippi valley in 1908
2007-01-15 20:57:07 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋