Does anyone take bible stories literally these days?

Question

Does anyone really believe Noahs Ark, etc etc etc. Stories that are totally illogical and impractical. I believe the universe is probably God, and im sure there is more to it than that.

Answer 1

Those that don't take the Bible literally, miss out on a lot of the wonder of God.

Those that do take the Bible literally, miss out on a lot of the wonder of God.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Answer 2

I believe them all. Many have been proven to be historical FACT, others have VERY accurate archeological information in them that verifies their existance.
Examples:
The story of the walls of Jericho falling down. It seems that they had a BAD HABIT of falling down, and there is evidence of them coming about at differant times in the city's ancient history.
There is some version of a Noahs Ark story in EVERY ancient culture. some catastrophy left an imprint on ancient culture. Also, Catastrophism is becoming more the fad now regarding pre-history. Global catastrophy has been in the Bible since day one. According to evolutionary dogma, 2 billion years ago, a large celestial body hit the earth, inundating the planet with a global tidal wave, and wiped out everything except bacteria. Bible story of global catastrophy BAD, evolution story of global catastrophy GOOD. Which was FIRST? Science is FINALLY catching up.
The Sermon on the mount is obvious.
The 'stations of the cross', or the 'passion play' has been done every easter for over a thousand years in some areas. Did they do this because it was a fairy-tale?
The existance of Jesus was verified by non-Christian historians. The Jewish historian, Josephus recorded a Jewish carpenter that was crucified and his followers claimed he rose from the dead.
Have you even READ the history behind these 'stories'?
Nebuchadnezzer didnt exist? Darius? Pharaoh? Babylon? Jerusalem? These are all CONFIRMED names and places that are accuratly depicted in the Bible. How can you deny this evidence? Cut out the parts that say 'God' in them? All the parts you dont like?
Wake up.

Answer 3

Yep, many of us still do, actually some very good research has been done about the ark and it's pretty reliable. It's not to hard to believe that if God created the universe God could fill a big boat with animals and a few people and cause it to rain.

I think the animals may have been babies, no reason to take full grown elephants and rhino's on trip like this. You could feed the milk producing smaller animals like sheep and cows and use the milk to feed the babies (just a theory).

But I absolutely believe everything in the Bible is real and true.

Answer 4

Many millions of people do. They believe the entirety of the Bible, which means a 6 day creation, Adam and Eve, the Flood, the virgin birth of Jesus, the bodily resurrection of Christ.

There is not one historical event in the Bible which contradicts logic, and true science. The 'science' that is used to date objects is not observable science, but calculated science - thus the answers will be no more accurate as the assumptions that are used (e.g. the rate of ratio active decay in the past).

The very fact that some scientist place God on a shelf before they look at a rock formation shows that they are catering to a preconceived notion that there is no God. Yes the rock formation appears to have great age, but did not God create Adam with the appearance of age? In the biblical story of Adam and Eve we read of two fully grown humans, we read of fully grown animals, and we read of fully grown trees. Therefore if a scientist was in the Garden of Eden five minutes after creation, he would have erroneously concluded that the world was very old.

Answer 5

in the beginning, maximum different religions have a predated record of ways people have been first placed in this planet, and maximum anybody is resembling the memories of Adam and Eve. 2d off, there is historic and scientific info of a super flood that got here approximately in the previous. And to respond to you 0.33 questions, those references, or as you so kindly placed it, "memories," are no longer some thing that maximum folk evaluate being as having to take actually, the certainly comprise faith. issues which includes an eye fixed for an eye fixed and a the teeth for a the teeth, even nevertheless the bible additionally says do unto others as you might have them do unto you, now that's some thing which may well be left open to talk and in my very own opinion should not be taken literal.

Answer 6

Interesting question about Noah's Ark.

Noah was supposed to be born about 3,400 BC and dies about 2,450 BC. Becoming one of the oldest living human on the earth at that time.

Noah had out lived the Ice Man who died about 3,300 years BC in the Alps and was found again in the 21 century.

There was some plagiarism by the Hebrews according to Leonard Woolly, who found pieces of clay fired tablets in cryptic about a Babylonian story of a man named Ut-Napishtim, who was told by the Babylonian God that the world had become evil and was instructed to build the Ark and to load all the animals on-board so as to escape "the end all flesh" by the flood.

So there is some truth to the myth as recorded by those ancient people of the past out of the Golden Fire Triangle.

All you have to do is look for the evidence as if it had really occured. The flood I mean and a man had survived with some animals on a make shift raft.

Another piece of graffiti was found at Ur by Woolley about a Babylonian accountant had recorded amongst his files; "You can have a lord, you can have a king, but the man to fear is the tax collector''.

Answer 7

The stories are as true today as they've ever been. The problem is that Satan is deceiving the world into believing that they're impracticle (Revelation 12:9).

2 Peter 3:3-10 shows that they're are especially important, now that we are in the last days.

Revelation 12:9
So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

2 Peter 3:3-10
3 For YOU know this first, that in the last days there will come ridiculers with their ridicule, proceeding according to their own desires 4 and saying: “Where is this promised presence of his? Why, from the day our forefathers fell asleep [in death], all things are continuing exactly as from creation’s beginning.”

5 For, according to their wish, this fact escapes their notice, that there were heavens from of old and an earth standing compactly out of water and in the midst of water by the word of God; 6 and by those [means] the world of that time suffered destruction when it was deluged with water. 7 But by the same word the heavens and the earth that are now are stored up for fire and are being reserved to the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly men.

8 However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. 9 Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with YOU because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. 10 Yet Jehovah’s day will come as a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a hissing noise, but the elements being intensely hot will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be discovered.

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought YOU to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of godly devotion, 12 awaiting and keeping close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah, through which [the] heavens being on fire will be dissolved and [the] elements being intensely hot will melt! 13 But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell.

Answer 8

There actually are a lot of ppl that take the bible literally. I don't but a lot of ppl do. Kinda scary huh? I believe they are just stories that are supposed to teach some sort of moral.

Answer 9

Somewhere around 47% of Americans believe that evolution is NOT widely accepted by scientists.

Let me repeat: Recent studies indicate that 47% of Americans believe that evolution is NOT widely accepted by SCIENTISTS.

Obviously, these people do not believe in evolution, thus, they believe in creationism. That does NOT include the creationists who know that evolution IS widely accepted by scientists and still disbelieve it. (I know of no evolutionist who thinks that evolution is *not* accepted by science.)

Clearly, many people take bible stories literally. In America, anyway.

Answer 10

Could Noah's Ark Hold all the Animals?

One issue that is often raised against Christianity is Noah's Ark and the Flood. Did it really happen? Did the flood really cover the whole world? Is there enough water on earth to cover all the land? Could the ark really hold two of every kind of animal in the world? Though these might be intimidating questions, the answer to each is a resounding, "Yes."
God said to Noah in Genesis 6:14-16, "So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks" (NIV). According to God's Word, Noah built the ark. Eight people entered it and all humanity died in the ensuing flood.
Did the flood really happen? Yes. Jesus said in Matt. 24:37-39 that the flood happened. If you can't trust Jesus, you can't trust anyone. As far as physical evidence goes there are numerous sedimentary deposits world wide which suggest a universal flood. There are countless fossil deposits world wide (For fossilization to occur organisms must be buried rapidly with sediment.). Every major culture has a flood legend. Of over 200 flood legends, 95% say the flood was universal; 70% say survival depended upon a boat; 66% say the wickedness of man was the cause; 88% say there was a favored family; 66% say the remnant was warned; 67% say animals were also saved; 57% say the survivors ended up on a mountain; 35% say birds were sent out; 9% say eight people were saved; and 7% mention a rainbow.
Is there enough water to flood the entire earth? Absolutely! If the earth were perfectly spherical the oceans would cover all the land by more than a mile in depth. The biblical account is that it rained for 40 days and nights in which the floodgates of the heavens were opened up as well as the fountains from the earth (Gen. 7:11;8:2). There is a theory known as the canopy theory that states it had never rained on the earth up to the time of Noah and that a mist watered the plants (Gen. 2:6-6). The theory goes on to state that there may have been a heavy cloud or water vapor layer over the entire earth and that it was this canopy of water that became torrential rains during the flood period.
Did the flood cover all the earth? Yes it did. The depth of the flood waters is described in Gen. 7:19 as covering "all the high mountains under the entire heavens." Also, there are many references in the Bible to it being global: Gen. 6:1,4-5,12,13,17,19;7:4,6,10,19;8:3;9:15. There were 40 days of rain (Gen. 7:12), 110 days of flooding (Gen. 7:24) and 221 more days of draining (Gen. 8:1-5,13-14). That is a total of 371 days of flooding that covered the mountains. That could not be a local flood.
Could the ark really contain all the animals of the world? Again the answer is "Yes." But let's look at the last question in more detail. The ark took about 120 years to build. Noah was 480 years old when he began the work and he had the help of his wife, three sons, and his son's wives. He probably hired local people to help in the construction.
The dimensions of the ark have a ratio of six to one. The Ark was six times longer than it was wide. This is the best ratio for modern ship building. Model stability tests have shown that the design is stable for waves up to 200 feet high and that the ark could have rotated 90 degrees and still righted itself.
The volume of the ark would be 450 feet long by 75 feet wide by 45 feet high. This equals 1,518,750 cubic feet and is comparable to 569 modern railroad boxcars. Therefore each boxcar, by comparison, would be 1,518,750 ÷ 569, or 2,669 cubic feet of space. The average size of an animal on the earth is smaller than a cat. But, just to keep it safe let's consider the average size of an animal to be a sheep. The average double deck stock car holds 240 sheep. The Ark capacity would be about 569 x 240 equaling 136,560 animals of that size. However, that still is not accurate for our needs. Since most birds, reptiles, and amphibians are much smaller, let's double the boxcar capacity for them. Therefore, the boxcars could each hold 480 different kinds of birds, reptiles, amphibians.
Noah had to take two or seven of every kind of animal on the earth. Though it is not really known exactly what is meant by a biblical kind, it is generally considered to be animals that are fertile within their own groups. Any dog can breed with any dog, therefore, dogs are one kind. It would only be necessary to bring representatives of each kind since the parents could produce offspring that would carry the genetic information for all variations within their kind.


Classification . . . . Number of Species . . . . Number of Kinds on the Ark
Mammals . . . . . . . . .3,700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,700 (a few live in water).
Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,600 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60,200 (seven pairs according to
Gen. 7:3)
Reptiles. . . . . . . . . . .6,300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,300
Amphibians. . . . . . . .2,500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500
Fishes. . . . . . . . . . . .20,600. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .zero
Other marine life . . . 192,605. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .zero
Insects . . . . . . . . . . . 850,000 . . . (Since insects are very small, and a great many could be stored in a small area, calculation would be difficult.)
Total . . . . . . . . . . . .1,072,305 . . . . . . . . . . . . .72,700
The total number of mammals would be 3,700 times two pair which equals 7,400 animals. 7,400 divided by 240 = 31 boxcars used.
Since Gen. 7:3 says to take seven pairs of every bird then the total for birds would be 8,600 times two pair times 7 or 120,400 animals. 120,400 ÷ 480 = 250 boxcars. The reptiles and amphibians would be 6,300 plus 2,500 or 8,800. 8,800 times two pair equals 17,600 animals. 17,600 divided by 480 = 37 boxcars.
The total number of boxcars used would be 318 with a total number of animals at 145,400. There would be 251 boxcars left over. That means that only 56% of the ark would be used for storing the animals. Obviously, then, the rest of the space would be used for food for the people and animals and sleeping quarters. In addition, considering that insects are extremely small, it is easily conceivable that they could be housed in part of the remaining space.
It should also be considered that many animals can hibernate. Additionally, predators and prey have been known to habitat peacefully together during situations of stress like fire, flood, or earthquake. In the Ark, normal animal behavior would probably have been different from normal. Specialists in animal behavior have noted that animals can sense danger and have often migrated to escape it. Perhaps God used their migratory instincts to get them to the Ark.
Though this is only a brief analysis, it should present enough evidence that the Ark account is certainly within the realm of possibility.