I think they did, but they had no meaning until God gave them one after the Flood.
2007-06-18 11:10:06 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I asked THREE questions on the subject a few days ago and many many Christians told me that no, there WEREN'T any rainbows before the flood. How? It didn't rain, thus the water didn't refract the light and produce a rainbow. Why didn't it rain? Who knows, but they're sure God had something to do with it. How did the planlife survive? There was a "mist of water" that ROSE OUT OF THE GROUND and covered the entire land with moisture. Where did that water come from? Who knows, but they're sure God had something to do with it.
2007-06-18 11:14:38 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
It was very common to interpret Signs in those times, and of course there were rainbows before the flood and OF COURSE there was rain before the flood or there would have been no way for people to live or grow food etc. The rainbow that Noah saw Assured him of good weather to come, obviously this was a Very good sign after forty days and nights of rain! Also I would not be suprised if rainbows occured in other circumstances before the Biblical-post-flood-rainbow that had meanings of their own, but possibly those meanings were not as significant as Noahs Recognition as his as a sighn from God, and thus were not recorded in the bible. I mean there had to have been right? C'mon think about it!!!
2007-06-18 11:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by Whamy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There seems to have been a canopy over the earth and there had never been any rain before then. There was like a "mist'' that watered everything. Not only did animals live langer nd larger; like dinosaurs, but people lived much longer..., hundreds of years.
That is one reason people didn't much listen to Noah and his son's preaching for those 120 years about a flood coming.
Sorta reminds you of today when you tell people that the 6,000 year lease is about up and Jesus is coming and the elements will disolve in fire (Peter wrote about that) when he sets up a new heaven and new earth. They think you are some sorta religious fanatic and accuse God of being cruel and unfair.
All God is doing is purifying the heavens and earth from SIN and it's consequences.., so LET GO OF THE SIN folks so you won't be attached to it when the fireworks begin. Ya know?
2007-06-18 12:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, rainbows did not exist before the flood, because there was no rain just mist. God set that rainbow in the sky as a sign to all mankind that He would never destroy the earth by flood again.
2007-06-18 11:17:34 · answer #4 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. in accordance to the bible the flood advance into the 1st rain fall, beforehand that there have been fountains that provided water for the earth. After the flood the rainbow advance into the covenant from God to Noah asserting that He will never break the entire of the earth in that way returned. It advance into an illustration of God's promise. x
2016-10-09 11:42:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question here as well as the answers floor me. It scares me that so many people believe that there were no rainbows before Noah's saving of the animals two by two. Rain and rainbows have existed for millions and millions of years; long before there was even life on Earth.
2007-06-19 05:23:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, given that the rainbow is a naturally-occurring phenomena involving the refraction of light through water droplets, it would be impossible for it not to exist before this flood you speak of.
Given that the flood itself didn't exist though, your question is moot.
2007-06-18 11:19:42 · answer #7 · answered by Dazcha 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you know what causes rainbows?
It's a refraction of light through mist, and just one of many natural wonders in the universe.
It's been raining in one place or another on this planet for about 5 billion years, so rainbows have been around a long, long time--long before Abraham thought up his God, even long before people existed.
2007-06-18 11:18:34 · answer #8 · answered by nora22000 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course,
Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere.
2007-06-18 11:19:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not a stuiped question and yes there where rainbows before the great flood and as long as earth has preduced(made) rain, and hade the sun at the same time there have been rainbows. rainbows rock lol
2007-06-18 11:15:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋