Do you believe that the first rain on earth was during the Noah/flood thing?

Answer 1

That would be stupid as heck to believe that.

Answer 2

Certainly. The deluge was the first time the rains fell. Before, the earth was a sort of bio-sphere for lack of a better word.

Gen 2: 6 But a mist would go up from the earth and it watered the entire surface of the ground.

Gen 1:7 Then God proceeded to make the expanse and to make a division between the waters that should be beneath the expanse and the waters that should be above the expanse. And it came to be so. (This is the water canopy that existed first. This and the springs effectively watered the earth and everything on it.)

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all the springs of the vast watery deep were broken open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Answer 3

That is what I was told. That there was like a canopy over the earth, and everything was misty. So, at the time of the flood, the earth broke open and water came from underneith and flood gates happend flooding the earth. I believe this is the 1st continental divide.

That is why the rainbow in the sky is a covenant sign from God to His Creation. The rainbow didn't happen in the sky like that before.

Answer 4

yes, I believe that the flood was the very first rainfall. I have attached a link to an onlline concordance that I use that will highlight the scriptures for you.

Read Genesis 2:5-6; 2:9-10:
5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
9And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

and Genesis 7:4
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

Answer 5

Prior to the Flood, the earth was watered by a mist. There was a canopy surrounding the earth which kept temperature constant, and supplied the moisture for plants &c.

" ... But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."

As the Bible has demonstrated itself to be two- to three thousand years ahead of science -

[ie. Job "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing" Job 26:7], -

the answer to your query would be "Yes".

Regards to you,

Philip Livingstone
www.theforgottenbible.org

Answer 6

No, there must have been rain before then, otherwise there could be no life because no plants would grow and animals would dehydrate and die.

Actually, I'm not really sure about the whole Noah/flood story. I mean, the idea was to wipe out all life and start again with just two of every species, but what about all the fish and other animals that could swim? They would have all survived, right? I'm not saying the Bible is wrong (I'm Christian myself), but I think that the story of Noah and the Flood is more symbolic or metaphorical than realistic, in the same way that the story of Adam and Eve and the whole world-in-seven-days thing are not meant to be taken literally. But that's just my opinion.

Answer 7

Since the Earth was around a few million years before Man I really doubt that there wasn't any rain before then,

Answer 8

I don't know but I'd assume that it had rained before the entire Noah/Flood fiasco.

Answer 9

No. it had been raining on the earth for billions of years.

Answer 10

yes the Bible says this. Before the flood water came up form the ground in springs.

Answer 11

It was the first world wide flood.