Is the story of Noah's Ark exclusive to the Christian religion?

Question

I think so, so please let me know if I'm wrong and make fun of me because of that.

Answer 1

No. It's a Jewish story co-opted by the Christians.
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Answer 2

No, there are Flood legends all around the world. Every culture of antiquity has a Flood legend in which a family of 8 were saved, along with a bunch of animals, from a worldwide flood. Many of these also mention that in the previous world, people were very intelligent but evil. In fact, sometimes even the names for the people were very close to the Biblical names, like the name for Noah in Hawaiian was Nu'u. There are legends from the cultures of China, called the "Hai Qing classic" (which disproves the argument that the Chinese existed before or during the Flood), the Aztecs, the Babylonians, the Hawaiians, and others. They are all remarkably similar to each other. Even the Chinese language contains the story of the Garden of Eden and the Flood embedded in its characters. This adds weight to the idea that all people today on the Earth are descended from 8 people on the ark, and spread out from the Tower of Babel approximately 2,400 B.C.

Answer 3

No making fun, scientists aren't usually equated with Christian and they are the ones that supposedly found the Ark. If I read your question correctly, you are asking about NOAH'S ARK being exclusive to Christian religion, NOT the flood story. Noah and the building of the ARK and the sparing of every kind of animal IS exclusive to the Christian "religion" as you call it.

Answer 4

interior the countless factors of Victoria Australia that I have lived in (virtually all interior the Kulin usa section - ie part of the first peoples of the middle of Vic) Christianity develop into the numerous faith with many denominations . the overpowering perspectives & teachings of the Noah tale were that the tale as written in English texts is an noticeably liberal (irony!) clarification of a few thing calamitous that could want to ok have exceeded off. "each and each and every of the animals" at this historic time meant each and each and every of the land animals in that area - ie the wide-spread international of that era - no longer the completed globe. This tale teaches the ethic of 'look after existence' - ie that our survival & happiness & different species survival & well-being is intertwined. No Christians i comprehend now or then, believed that all animals derived from the Ark animals. in common words little ones are meant to trust interior the literal interpretation of this and maximum different Bible thoughts, till they settle for the burden of the moral tale contained in the textual framework. i think that some human beings are suffering to advance up. Summery answer: I estimate that in Australia over ninety% of human beings raised as Christians comprehend that morals on 'look after the community of existence on earth' are the biggest factors of the Bible thoughts, which contains Noah & the Ark . the united states of a may be extra alongside the lines of 70% or a lot less .

Answer 5

Here are some locations and cultures that have knowledge as a real happening.

*** it-1 p. 611 Deluge ***

These folklore accounts of the Deluge agree with some major features of the Biblical account: (1) a place of refuge for a few survivors, (2) an otherwise global destruction of life by water, and (3) a seed of mankind preserved. The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Chinese, the Druids of Britain, the Polynesians, the Eskimos and Greenlanders, the Africans, the Hindus, and the American Indians—all of these have their Flood stories. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (Vol. 2, p. 319) states: “Flood stories have been discovered among nearly all nations and tribes. Though most common on the Asian mainland and the islands immediately south of it and on the North American continent, they have been found on all the continents. Totals of the number of stories known run as high as about 270 . . . The universality of the flood accounts is usually taken as evidence for the universal destruction of humanity by a flood and the spread of the human race from one locale and even from one family. Though the traditions may not all refer to the same flood, apparently the vast majority do. The assertion that many of these flood stories came from contacts with missionaries will not stand up because most of them were gathered by anthropologists not interested in vindicating the Bible, and they are filled with fanciful and pagan elements evidently the result of transmission for extended periods of time in a pagan society. Moreover, some of the ancient accounts were written by people very much in opposition to the Hebrew-Christian tradition.”—Edited by G. Bromiley, 1982.

In times past, certain primitive people (in Australia, Egypt, Fiji, Society Islands, Peru, Mexico, and other places) preserved a possible remnant of these traditions about the Flood by observing in November a ‘Feast of Ancestors’ or a ‘Festival of the Dead.’ Such customs reflected a memory of the destruction caused by the Deluge. According to the book Life and Work at the Great Pyramid, the festival in Mexico was held on the 17th of November because they “had a tradition that at that time the world had been previously destroyed; and they dreaded lest a similar catastrophe would, at the end of a cycle, annihilate the human race.” (By Professor C. Piazzi Smyth, Edinburgh, 1867, Vol. II, pp. 390, 391) Notes the book The Worship of the Dead: “This festival [of the dead] is . . . held by all on or about the very day on which, according to the Mosaic account, the Deluge took place, viz., the seventeenth day of the second month—the month nearly corresponding with our November.” (By J. Garnier, London, 1904, p. 4) Interestingly, the Bible reports that the Flood began “in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month.” (Ge 7:11) That “second month” corresponds to the latter part of October and the first part of November on our calendar.

Answer 6

The story of a great flood is in every culture, but the story of Noah, and his family, might be exclusive to Judaism, and Christianity, identifying Gods first family. The reason I think this is because, the number of animals placed on the ark vary, according to which tradition it is told from. From the Jewish tradition comes, clean, and unclean animals. From the Christian tradition, it was, two of thier kind, male and female. From my perspective, I'd say, man and animals alike, sought higher ground, as the flood waters rose. Noah would not have to go collect the animals, they would have come to him.

Answer 7

Nope. The original account of the Deluge was written and reported by the Sumerians around 2000 years before the Bible was compiled. The whole story told in the Old Testament is just a recollections of ancient Sumerian stories. The original name of the hero of the great Flood was (in Sumerian) Ziusudra, who then became known as Gilgamesh in Babylon. The amazing thing is that Ziusudra's birth (just like Noah's birth in the Book of Enoch) was reported as an extraodinary event by the Sumerians too; according to Enoch, Noah was an 'albino', and his colors were so unlike human that his father, Lamech, went to his father, Metuselah, and asked for his opinion about it; the very same story was told by the Sumerians thousands of years before and all the characters you find in the Old Testament correspond to those Sumerians reported about;) If you really wanna read the ORIGINAL story of Mankind, of its creation and of its beginning (other than that of the Deluge) read the LOST BOOK OF ENKI, and then the ENUMA ELISH, you'll be surprised to see with your own eyes how everything adds up, from the 7 days count, to the circumcision, from the rise from the dead to the Great Flood;) I'm a Sumerologist, you can trust me;)

Sumerians were the FIRST civilization that ever existed on Earth, much much earlier than Egyptians, Mayans, Greeks, Chinese and any other civilization you may think of;) Mankind came to existence in Sumer(or Shumer) in a land called Edin= Home in the Faraway (Southern Mesopotamia), and then spread around the world.

Answer 8

No, the story of Noah is actually a re-telling of an old Assyrian myth about a "great flood". The Assyrian story is of a man who saved his farm animals by using a large raft when the Tigris and Euphrates rivers overflowed and flooded the plains where his farm was located. The Noah story was nothing more than what the movies use these days when they say "It's based on a true story"...VERY loosely based...

Answer 9

The story of the flood is not exclusive. The story of a man building a gigantic Ark on top of a hill to safely transport 2 of each animal, is part of Christian and Jewish faith.

Answer 10

Actually, there are many stories from the ancient world which seem similar to some of the stories in the Bible, that's one of the reasons some historians and scholars believe the Bible itself may be a collection of these ancient stories/myths which were put together down through the ages. No one knows for sure of course but it is one theory.

Answer 11

No... actually, most religions that originated in that area have some sort of myth about a huge flood. Some speculate that there was a flooding of the black sea during the formative times of these religions.