Where did all the water come from for Noah's flood?

Answer 1

The overly-active imagination of religious believers.

Answer 2

There is geological evidence to suggest that the flood of noah may have been caused by the breaking of a wall of the Old Dead sea basin. This flooded the valley below where Noah and his people resided. This would sugggest that the bible is not 100% true, and rather it is a telling of events as they were understood at the time. If you're looking for a fundamentalists answers, don't look to me.
P.s. the flood in the epic of gilgamesh was also based on this flood. The bible is not a copy so much as it is a continuation of oral tradition in another region.

Answer 3

The sad thing is, the Christians will continue to argue "it came from the sky and the fountains of the deep!" even though its been proven physically that it could never be scientifically plausible to flood the entire surface of the earth in 40 days

Answer 4

Aside from raining for 40 days, it came from the existing waters of the earth.

Genesis 7: 11-12 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

Answer 5

According to Genesis 7:11-24 :-

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month— on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12 And rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.

15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.

20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet.

21 Every living thing that moved on the earth perished— birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

According to 2 Peter 3:3-9

3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.

4 They will say, Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.

5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water.

6 By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.

7 By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

Answer 6

From the gushing of the springs of the Earth and the pouring down of water from the sky, thus did it rise to the stipulated level and it covered ALL of the Earth. Only Noah and those that believed with him were saved ..... the rest of Mankind was destroyed. May Peace be on Noah in ALL the Universe.

May God have Mercy on Mankind.

Answer 7

It came from two sources - up from below, from the "fountains of the deep" - massive underground water stores which broke open at the trench lines in the oceans; and down from above as well. It is believed (and supported by scientific findings) that the pre-flood atmosphere contained a 7th layer of water or ice. This layer protected the earth from the dangerous rays of the Sun and kept the atmosphere at a uniform temperature. This layer fell down as rain during the Flood. So we have water coming up from below and down from above. Even today, if you were to push down the mountains and raise up the ocean basins, there is enough water out in the oceans to cover the Earth 2 miles deep everywhere. The weight of the water during the Flood caused a great shifting of the earth's crust, which caused mountains to rise on the thick parts of the crust and caused the thin parts to sink down to form the ocean basins.

Answer 8

Read Genesis 7:10-12 So much water gushed up from the depths off the earth and poured down from the sky, that those in the ark couldn't get out on dry ground for nearly a year!!

Answer 9

From some God whose name we don't know, because Noah's Flood is almost certainly a copy of some other, older flood narrative. Could be one of the Babylonian gods (I.e. Epic of Gilgamesh)

Answer 10

I suspect that they had a hurricane...(like we still have today)
Noah was probably an ordinary man whose house was blown apart by the storm...Naturally, he might have tried to salvage a few chickens, a pig and perhaps a goat or two.

Answer 11

Supposedly it rained for 40 days and 40 nights and that did the trick. Unfortunately, the guys who wrote the Bible weren't quite sophisticated or experienced enough to realize that even a YEAR of constant rain wouldn't cover the earth with enough water to float a rowboat, let alone a 6000 ton 'ark'.