Was the Bible's Great Flood (Noah) a true event?

Question

Native global flood stories are documented as history or legend in almost every region on earth. Old world missionaries reported their amazement at finding remote tribes already possessing legends with tremendous similarities to the Bible's accounts of the worldwide flood. H.S. Bellamy in Moons, Myths and Men estimates that altogether there are over 500 Flood legends worldwide. Ancient civilizations such as (China, Babylonia, Wales, Russia, India, America, Hawaii, Scandinavia, Sumatra, Peru, and Polynesia) all have their own versions of a giant flood.

These flood tales are frequently linked by common elements that parallel the Biblical account including the warning of the coming flood, the construction of a boat in advance, the storage of animals, the inclusion of family, and the release of birds to determine if the water level had subsided. The overwhelming consistency among flood legends found in distant parts of the globe indicates they were derived from the same origin.

Answer 1

Genetic tests point to the fact all of mankind have a common ancestoral woman, or at most, a small ancestral community in common. During this time, history and understanding of the world would have been an oral tradition. A localized flood, or a local "creation story" told to explain the nature of the world is most likely the origin of Noah's flood.

Answer 2

According to the bible, there are pre-warning signs: Godlessness in the last days - 2 Timothy 3:1-5,7 False Messiahs. Prelude to the First Seal - Matthew 24:5,11 Wars and Rumors of Wars. Prelude to the Second Seal - Matthew 24:6 Famines. Prelude to the Third Seal - Matthew 24:7 Pestilences - Matthew 24:7 Earthquakes - Matthew 24:7 But the start of the 7-year tribulation, if you believe in pre-tribulation, will be when the rapture happens. Otherwise, it is when Israel signs the 7-year peace treaty. There's a decent time line at the link below.

Answer 3

haven't you answered your own qn? haha the overwhelming evidence does prove a point doesnt it? even scientifically, it is proven that there was a massive worldwide flood that happen.

which is also why, the bodies of the mammoths are found at the north pole, as it was proven scientifically that the floods actually had to flow somewhere, and it was up north, and thus the big animals are pushed along that flow and up north, and hence, they are all found there.

yeap.. i believe that it was a real event.

Answer 4

hard question it is proven fact that there was a huge flood they have do research on it and it actually happened. And they have also proven that the bible is a historical record now and that every thing in the bible is true so everything in the bible is true as to what it says if you do not beleive me then talk to your local pastor! :P

Answer 5

So they say. I suppose the only time we'll truly know all of this is when we pass on. There are so many different versions of the Bible that it is hard to agree with every story. But hey, u never know. The unknown is what intrigues us.

Answer 6

According to Islam, the Noah's flood was a local thing. It was just a flood.

Answer 7

Of course not. It's a re-telling of a Sumerian fable, the Epic of Gilgamesh. There is virtually nothing in the bible that wasn't taken (stolen) from other cultures.

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Answer 8

Read the Book called Chariots of the Gods.... It takes the Bible and explaines how it was all really aliens...And it really makes sence.....You will dig it...

Answer 9

If God can foretell events centuries in advance within the pages of the Bible and then bring them to pass, we have irrefutable proof that the Bible is indeed His inspired Word.

Answer 10

Yup.