Question about Noah's Ark here...?

Question

If Noah and his family were the only ones to survive after the great floods, wouldn't everyone technically be related to him and his family?

Answer 1

The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Vat. 11, Ch. 3.11) of the Catholic Church says that "all that the inspired, or sacred writers, affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to be confided to the sacred Scriptures." This is the Church's teaching on the matter after twenty centuries of Christian discernment.

Biblical inerrancy, then, is the Bible's privilege of never teaching error. Does this mean that every statement in the Bible is divine teaching? Of course not. The Bible does not always teach. There are many statements in its various books that are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons. However, whenever a biblical author intends to teach us something, then the Holy Spirit intends that too. Everything that the Bible teaches is without error, but everything in the Bible is not meant as teaching. Each author was left free by the Lord to express himself according to the ideas of his own day. It is the revelation contained in the Scriptures that is important.

There are many accounts in the Bible, which employ a literary device used by Jewish Old and New Testament writers called Midrash. Midrash is the substantive of the Hebrew word darash which means to search, to investigate, to study and, also, to expound on the fruits of the research. The aim of Midrash is to draw from Scripture a lesson for the present.

Midrash could also be defined as a "reflection on Scripture in the light of the actual situation of God's people and of the developments of God's action on its history." It proposes to explain the meaning of Scripture in the light of the later historical experience of God's people. This kind of interpretation often opened the door to embellishments of the sacred accounts, anachronisms, and a freedom in handling and maneuvering the data of tradition that were at times a little too candid and certainly very imaginative.

A good example is the Midrashic story of Noah and the flood. It is the divine message, which is important, (God saves his children from evil) not the literal account of the story.

Peace!

Answer 2

notice that it incredibly is a million/twelfth of the dimensions, and that they nevertheless did no longer glide it on a canal. locate me a maritime engineer that would layout a wood boat the dimensions of the ark that isn't wreck up or leak like a sieve on a comfortable ocean swell and that i visit take the tale far greater heavily. additionally i'd desire to have ignored the bit approximately Noah making 6ft intense panes of glass. The abode windows on the ark are defined as a single window one cubit sq.. to furnish sufficient ventilation over the three decks Noah might would desire to layout a equipment to pass air nevertheless the window at approximately 2 hundred mph. finally, the place did you get 40 days? it incredibly is how long it rained. pass back a re-study the passage. The animals have been on the ark for 365 days.

Answer 3

That is a very good deduction...:)))

Most everyone has questions on whether this story can be taken totally literally on all parts. Great flood stories exist in ancient writings in many cultures. There is scientific evidence to show there have been amazingly large floods that could have been perceived as a "cover of the Earth."

Perhaps the best lesson learned from this story and from your question is that we all have common roots in some form or fashion. Faith and hope in the rainbow is a pretty good lesson learned also...:))))

Answer 4

It nice to think so but how realistic is it? Back then it was taught that where ever people were that there was the whole world so when the floods came, they thought the whole world was covered. The earth has been destroyed many times by all sorts of disasters including meteorites and people always survived across the globe. It's rather small minded to think that "Noah's family" were the only people on earth because "the bible said so".

Answer 5

Yes, you are correct. All the people in the world are descended from Noah's 3 sons: Shem, Ham, and Japeth.

It is thought that the Shemites migrated gradually eastward, covering Asia Minor, Asia, and North and South America. The Japethites migrated North and West, populating most of Europe. The Hamites migrated Southeast and Southwest, populating Africa and Oceana.

Answer 6

Fortunately, Noah wasn't the only one to survive. The flood wasn't worldwide.

Besides, when G-d scattered the people at the Tower of Babel, he gave them new genes too, to make them unrelated. So there.

Answer 7

His sons' wives brought in traits from different backgrounds, but yes, we are all related. Even if we evolved, we still all evolved from something, and it's mathematically unlikely that life originated multiple times in different locations.
The first answer up there is all wrong. Noah did not have to get two of each species of insect and two of everything that lived in the ocean.

Answer 8

Yes:But several Generations removed/ Noah:s Ark just remember there was also two Skunks on board,

Thanks for the question: Cousin

Answer 9

Don't worry about it. Noah's ark is a pagan fairy tale that was later included into the Abrahamic faith. This is well known to anyone who has read a book other than the bible.

It's not literal, it's not true, and it is a much older story than the one in the bible.

(If you want to know more, look up the Epic of Gilgamesh online, or... read it for yourself)

Answer 10

Of course. It was through him after the flood that more human beings were born.
Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.