POST-FLOOD:
"And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."
2007-05-17 06:17:59 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OMFG.
That's what happened to the dinosaurs! You just earned a doctorate at Liberty University with this! You'll make millions!
2007-05-17 06:22:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are actually a couple of versions of how many beasts he took.
Depending on how you interpret it it could be 2 of everything, 2 pairs of everything, 2 of everything unclean and 7 of the clean, or 2 pairs of everything unclean and 7 pairs of the clean.
So there could have been enough of the clean to afford some burnt offerings to God. (As opposed to all the billions of soggy drowned offerings littering the countryside.)
Still there is the minor problem of the rabbits going extinct an hour or so after the foxes got hungry.
Or the problem of getting the kangaroos back to Australia, the lemurs back to Madagascar, etc.
The obvious solution (and I surprised that no fundies have thought of this) is that the dinosaurs did it. They were used for transportation, and then a food source until the ecosystem had recovered!
2007-05-17 06:30:39 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well seeing that he only took seven of each to begin with and then left six alive (taking one from each as a burnt offering) and granted that none died on the Ark or were eaten for food.
That just left six of each to re-populate the ENTIRE planet. Talk about inbreeding..... wait, we forget the carnivores (who tend to have more litter than herbivores) who will be hunting the clean beasts and they were apparently all released TOGETHER in the same area of the earth. Talk about ecological meltdown!
I wonder how polar bears found their way back to the Arctic?
I guess this is why some Christians view this account figuratively not literally.
2007-05-17 06:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by pixie_pagan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There were two stories that were clumsily merged into one. One of the stories came from the priestly class which promoted the idea that the true priesthood of God didn't start until Aaron. Their story involved only one pair of each animal. The other story, told by a group that did not tie the priestly tradition to a particular individual, stated that seven pairs of clean animals were brought in order to have enough for sacrifices. Read the story carefully. You'll find many more examples that make it clear two separate stories were simply merged into one without changing conflicting details.
2016-05-20 21:53:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No -- the text says he took OF the clean beasts and fowls; it doesn't say he took ALL of them.
Genesis 7:2-3 tells us Moses took "seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female; also seven each of birds of the air, male and female ..." So the fact that Moses sacrificed at least one clean beast and at least one clean fowl didn't deplete the population in a significant way.
2007-05-17 06:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No of course not. Again, it says OF every clean beasts. And besides, if this were true, then God would not have gone through the list on clean/unclean animals in Leviticus 11 as a reminder for the Israelites to know which animals are ok to eat and which are an abomination. Obviously "clean" animals are still around though these days its not safe to eat them anymore.
2007-05-17 06:27:25 · answer #6 · answered by starlightblue311 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Does it say he offered ALL the "clean beasts" as burnt offerings? On the contrary, it says the exact opposite: he "took OF every clean beast, and OF every clean fowl...."
2007-05-17 06:23:49 · answer #7 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a reason he took a male and a female with him.
They DID procreate whilst on the Ark, so obviously he offered young animals, as opposed to the grown ones.
2007-05-17 06:21:00 · answer #8 · answered by Kael 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there were 7 each of all clean beasts on the ark. He took "of" them. One each. No, he did not cause their extinction, he saved them. Better luck next time.
2007-05-17 06:23:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naughty donkey......
Please do not use the KJV uniquely.
I beg you to obtain (and use) a variety of Bible translations.
Please note your quote states:
"OF every clean beast and OF every clean fowl...."
That means he did not use ALL.
2007-05-17 06:24:00 · answer #10 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋