Why did God ask noah to build an ark....Why didn't HE just take Noah..?

Question

..and his family up to the heavens and send them down again when He had cleansed the earth

Answer 1

He was testing Noah to see if he would trust in him. All of the people mentioned in the Old Testament were tested in some way.

Answer 2

Well we won't know for sure until we get to heaven. But, here are some basic observations for consideration:

1. Noah took over a hundred years to build it and was certainly taught many things about faith in that time.

2. God almost always allows his people many chances to repent before he does drastic things, perhaps the years of Noah building the ark and telling people to repent was the "second chance" God wanted to give them.

3. God can do anything He wants to, so we must assume that it is the act of obedience in doing this thing that strengthened Noah and his family in many ways.

Answer 3

Good point. Drowning is a horrible way to kill nearly EVERY LIVING mammal on the Earth!!! Here's how humans drown: First they tire out trying to stay afloat. Then when they succumb to the water, they hold their breath as long as they can. But then the body forces a gasp and burning water rushes in. The body also does another automatic thing. It seals the throat shut. So even if they do get back to the surface, they cannot take a breat of fresh air. The body goes into shock and thrashes about. Finally the mind starts to die and they fade to black.

This is how this god killed nearly every living human on the Earth. Not very god-like!

Answer 4

That became into the way.. If God had used yet or you may now be asserting: Why did no longer God flood the earth and have Noah build an Ark to maintain the few and the animals from the flood..

Answer 5

Here's another one:
Why would a supposedly 'Loving' god chose to create rules that would have a large % of those he 'loved' burn for all eternity in Hell, when it would have been far more Loving to simply make them non-existent?

Religions are all made up by people who were not very logical or reasonable but simply wanted to use it to control others. It doesn't have to make any sense because its fiction.


Edit:
Any omniscient god would not have to test Noah's faith or the faith of anyone. That god would already know everyone better than they know themselves. That god would already know all the actions of Noah before he made them. That's why 'testing' people would be irrelevant and completely unnecessary.

Answer 6

yes. The ark probably didn't happen. Every animal in the world...our religion teacher said he'd followed the measurements given in the bible, and the boat wouldn't have been bigger than our school oval (which was modestyly sized). Like much in the Bible- its a story with a moral. Perhaps some grains of truth. But you'd think if the entire world was flooded, other civilisations would have recorded this world-wide event. And you cant say 'they were all destroyed'. Because there would be ruins.

Answer 7

Perhaps it was to give him extra time to try to preach to the people of his day about the truth. I'm sure it took him a long time to build a vessel large enough to hold that many animals.
Some people never learn, though. And for their hard-headed ways, they died in the flood.
However, I've concluded that if they've never seen rain before, Noah would have seemed a little crazy.

Answer 8

It all started when adam sinned.Because GOD is holy he cant have sin in his presence.so man got seperated from GOD.

So GOD needs something to pay the penalty of sin.JESUS was the perfect sacrifice for our penalty.So JESUS came to earth lived among us and died for us on the cross.JESUS was the penalty.

Isaiah 55:8-9 GOD thoughts are higher than us and his ways higher than ours.

GOD loves u so much that he sent his son JESUS to die for u to reconcile u back.

John 3:16 says "For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoso ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life".Ask JESUS to come into your heart and forgive ur sins and cleanse ur past with his blood.

With a simple prayer like above u can be saved.

Answer 9

Or he could have given Noah and his clan the ability to breathe under water for 40 days and 40 nights. Like maybe turn them into mermaids and mermen and mercows and merdinosaurs and merfish ... wait a second, did the fish live? Or was it like acid rain?

Answer 10

I can't begin to understand how God does things, but I do know this: Obedience and faith are the two things that God requires of us. If He just pulled Noah and his family off the earth, where would Noah's obedience and faith come in? What if he personally wanted to stay on earth, and God had violated his freedom of choice, and his family's?