Noah's ark story is true?

Question

Agree?

There is scientific evidence for it. A boat was found on top of a mountain in Asia. How did it get there if the story isn't true?

Answer 1

The story is definitely true. The story, however, was told using a literary device called Midrash.

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.
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 2

There are a number of religious traditions that have a similar story. For example the Navajo, but in that case their god placed the "seeds" of life into a bag to be resown after the flood. In certain European traditions the gods killed a great giant, like a titan, and his blood washed over the earth. It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people insist on taking the Bible literally. I can't imagine how many mental hoops a person has to jump through to make that work. Not only that, literal interpretation of the Bible robs it of its potential to communicate transcendent knowledge, rendering it instead a series of about the most unlikely stories ever told. All transcendent is communicated through symbolism. Concerning the symbolism of the story of the ark, I have not given it much attention. However, it is possible that vast portions of the earth have been flooded at different times. Many scientists seem to think so too. Perhaps stories such as these developed from an oral tradition among the survivors of such catastrophes and became embellished with the retelling of each new generation. The Roman historian Tacitus detailed the long campaign of the Empire against the Celts. The Roman's regarded them as fearless in battle, so much so that once the historian asked a Celtic warrior if there was anything his people DID fear. The Celt replied that the only fear they knew was that the sky might one day fall upon their heads. This sounds ridiculous when taken literally, but he may have been speaking of a racial memory of some long past devastating event like a great flood. And if I may offer a personal thought here, that may have been how the idea of the need for salvation ended up a key feature of the faith. After all, many today who survive tragedies credit God for saving them. Perhaps it was that the survivors of this long ago cataclysm felt themselves "chosen," so to say, by God. So it began to be taught that in the future event of another such "act of God" only those who were truly "good" would be saved. Right?

Answer 3

Scientific evidence? Ha!

If Noah's Ark is really sitting at the top of Mount Ararat, then why hasn't it been dug up yet? Such overwhelming proof of the validity of Genesis would be worth billions and there'd be no shortage of volunteers to dig it up if it were really there.

Here's a good question for you: How can four men, lacking power tools and construction equipment, build a boat on par with the largest ocean liners? Furthermore, how can they travel to all seven continents, gathering millions of species of animals, when they didn't have tranquilizer guns or airplanes?

And the toughest question of all: How can you believe that such fairy-tale nonsense is real when even most intelligent Christians have written off the Ark story as just metaphorical in nature?

Answer 4

there still no clear or strong evidence proving that the one they found in Asia was the Noah's Ark. But still it was an Ark bottom shape on the top of mountain. The still mystery is that how could they prove that was the Noah's Ark left mark.

Answer 5

According to Asimov's Guide to the Bible by Isaac Asimov, at the time the story of Noah was suppose to take place the Egyptians were thriving, or something like that. So how did this story take place? Not the entire world was flooded, there was evidence he presented that there was a large area completely flooded which would make it appear that the world was flooded. Whether you choose to believe this is up to you, I just thought it was an interesting perspective. Check out the book if you want to, I didn't finish it, but what I read was interesting.

Answer 6

There is no evidence that a boat was found. There are some pictures of rock formations that kinda look like a boat, but if it were really the Ark it would be simple to prove. The rock formation in question is not really a boat.

Answer 7

The story is false, as shown by half a dozen completely independent lines of evidence. The relic to which you refer may have been any of a number of things, but of one thing you can be absolutely certain: it was not an ark. Actually, the photos of the relic show rocks containing Christian symbols, which suggest that it was actually a medieval fortification of some kind.

Answer 8

There is no evidence that a boat was found on top of a mountain.

Answer 9

Plate Tetonics.

Answer 10

You are asking if one of the most goofy stories of all time is true. Surely, you are joking. No one believes that it is true.