Do you believe in the story of Noah ... the ark and the flood .... literally ???

Answer 1

I believe in the story of noah(pbuh) and the ark. But not to the belief of others. I don't believe that the entire globe was flooded, but that entire region he was from. You must understand that back in those days, a person's entire view of the world consisted no more than about 5,000 miles radius from point of origin. To travel beyond that, you would have more than likely been a nomad. Original man are nomads, they don't travel back from whence they came. Only travel to new lands and manifest with thier environment and not make the environment adapt to them. But when the bible accounts that GOD flooded the earth, it was just for that region. A small proof can be the Katrina or Tsunami incident. But I will accept Noah's(pbuh) encounter to be a little greater.

So to answer your question, yes. I believe that it happenned literally, but you must also take into consideration of what the world was to an individual back then. Not that ours is any better, but you get the point. And for the person whom answered about the theory of the grand canyon being remnants from that era. That is no more than just a conjecture. I am more than sure the natives of this land we walk upon have the REAL reason for that. PEACE!

Answer 2

Dear burling,

Absolutely! In fact we know that the flood occurred in 4990 B.C. And because God is the Author of the entire Bible (though He used different secretaries), we read in 2 Peter 3:8, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." You can see from the enchpater that the Lord begins to speak of the flood of Noah's day and then leads into the events surrounding the end of the world and Judgment Day. Verse 8 was not put in there by accident. Remember that 7 days before the flood began, God told Noah to bring his family and all the animals into the ark to preserve them alive from the coming flood.

If we multiply 7 X 1000 we get 7000. We then add 7000 to 4990 B.C. and we arrive at the date 2011 A.D. (remember you have to subtract 1 becasue there is no year 0). Might this be the year of Christ's 2nd coming to the earth? This of course would mark the end of the world and Judgment Day.

Just as only the saved were in the ark of Noah, only those who are in Christ (have Him as their Savior) can enter heaven or the New Jerusalem.

Answer 3

No. I believe in Noah, and that he built a boat, that he put as many animals onto it as he could fit, and that there was a very large, but still local, flood that would have seemed global to those who who were there.

But I do not believe that the flood covered the entire globe of the earth, all the way up to beyond the highest mountain, and that seven pairs of kangaroos, elephants, bears, koalas, lions, and other wild animals, including insects, were collected in their entirety, housed, and fed on the Ark for almost a year.

Watch now. Some ignorant sap is going to say that the flood only lasted for 40 days and nights.
My response to that is that one should read the bible to know what it says if they are going to interpret it literally and defend that literal view.
The DELUGE lasted for 40 days and nights (Supposedly), but the bible says that the waters didn't recede for almost an entire year.

There is absolutely NO evidence of a global flood of that kind of proportion. There is no evidence of a genetic bottleneck across all species of animal and plant life as would occur after a mass extinction of that order. We have ice core samples accurately back-dating over 150,000 years and tree ring records back to at least 10,000 years, and there is no evidence of it there either. There is no evidence of the gradual geological spread of fossils radiating from the point where the Ark supposedly landed (Somewhere within the mountains of Ararat.). Neither do we see all species of animals and plants, from trilobites to humans, buried together in the same geological strata, as one would expect to see if there was a mass extinction at the time when all animals ever magically created were existing together at the same time.

Just like the story of the boy who cried wolf, a story's lessons are not lost if they are not literally true. But if one were to be hard-headed enough to consider it necessary to actually have a boy who cried wolf, had a townful of people stop taking him seriously, and then have the wolf swoop down and terrorize the town, and to argue psuedoscience that it is true, the lesson gets lost in the discussion over its validity.

Young Earth Creationists suck.

Answer 4

It's estimated that there are more than 5 MILLION species of beetle on the planet- probably closer to 6 or 7 million.

What's that you say? Noah didn't save the insects? Okay, but how did God save the butterflies then?

Well, fine. In that case Noah's Ark should have had room for about 5,700 amphibian species (2 each), 8,200 reptile species (again, just 2 each), about 10,000 bird species (2 per) and that should just leave room for about 5,400 species of mammal (some of which he brought 6 of, for luck).
That means we're looking at...

about 30 THOUSAND animals. And food for all of them, some of which are strict carnivores.

Oh dear, but that does confuse things a bit.

The bible is fiction. God is imaginary. Learn to live with it.

Answer 5

Nope. Distribution of animal life suggests that the flood was not worldwide.

I don't believe in the literal Tower of Babel either -- it's a "Just So" story.

Answer 6

Literally people of faith do. Many mainstream scientists, geologists do believe it and have proof for it. Ever hear of Pangea, the Super continent BEFORE the Flood?

Answer 7

Of course. I am a Christian if you couldn't tell. I believe that story as much as I believe that all humans pee every day. And that is a fact.

Answer 8

Of course. Think Tsunami on a grander scale uninterrupted.

Answer 9

of course,
Bible can't be 90% true or 40% true..
it's 100% true so if you believe that Jesus was a real person.. then Noah was a real person too!
thus all those prophey in Revelation... are all 100% truth!
I will give you just one example...
do you know why middle east has all those oils?
it's because that region was where Garden of Eden used to be. Great earthquake pushed Garden of Eden to sink and all became oil... that's how rich and bounty Garden of Eden was...
if you are christian. don't have any doubts... if you have doubts about Bible, then you are not saved.

Answer 10

Logistically the feat is impossible. To build a boat that big out of wood during a storm is impossible. The wood could not bear the surging seas force.