Thye bible gives specific dimensions for the ark; it is 151,140 ft sq. split into three levels (gen 6:14-15) (do the math and remember that a cubit is the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, defined today as 18-22". I used 22 just to be extra fair.) On the boat were 8 people(6:18), two of every animal (6:19) plus "seven pairs of all clean animals...and a pair of the animals that are not clean...and seven pairs of the birds of the air also" (7:2-3), and "every kind of food that is eaten" (6:21). On this ark they spent one year, one month and ten days (7:11/8:13-14). It took Noah less than one hundred years to build the massive ship (5:32/7:6), and he was 601 when they exited the ark (8:13). He died at the age of 950 (9:29), or 951 (8:13/9:28) if you ignore the shoddy math of 9:29. Doesn't this strike anyone else as impossible?
Aren't there any Jews/Christians out there who have actually read this book? There are more contradictions, but I'm almost out of ch
2007-03-25 00:40:12 · 13 answers · asked by Dan X 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Abrahamic tradition, Noah's Ark was a vessel built at God's command to save Noah, his family, and a core stock of the world's animals from the Great Flood. The story is contained in the Hebrew Torah, Christian Old Testament's book of Genesis, chapters 6 to 9 and in the Quran.
2007-03-25 00:42:26 · answer #1 · answered by Linda 7 · 0⤊ 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!
2007-03-25 00:45:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I have read the size of the ark, Did you know that everything in that ark was NOT a cross breed animal as we have them today. I see no place where the bible contridicts itself, it is only that people without a spiritual mind can not see the setting.
2007-03-25 00:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't you love it when the old book it self has all those ridiculous contradictions in it. Any person with just a little common sense has all ready figured out that that story is just a story and not reality based.
2007-03-25 00:45:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sweetie....I personally have not read that book about the Ark into DETAIL that is but have read it and to me it makes sense and now that you put it like this i will go and research it myself...BUT I NEVER doubt GOD or ever think that there is something wrong with what he has created. GOD Bless you
2007-03-25 00:46:32 · answer #5 · answered by Lovable 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The author had no idea that the fundies would be using it as a science textbook thousands of years later.
2007-03-25 00:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being the Christian that i am i believe the Bible in it's entirety cover to cover you have to believe it like that to be a true Christian. You can't just believe in the parts that suit you and disregard the rest.
2007-03-25 00:52:54 · answer #7 · answered by L J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jeremiah 32:27 " Behold I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me ?".
2007-03-25 00:45:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I was just thinking about it the other day. Haha, just another one of those rubbish bible storys. It's so carbage, I read it in a bed time story when I was five.
2007-03-25 00:44:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No.. none of us have read the book...
Lol of course we have!
Just have a little faith!
Google it, remains Noah's ark, see what you find..
2007-03-25 00:44:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋