In the Flood. Did water cover the whole planet?

Question

That is a lot of water. We all learned in school that people thought the world was flat. I also learned that many people thought that the land they lived on was the only land. Is it possible that the water only looded the area Noah lived in? I know the Bible is the Truth. But, the people that wrote the Bible must also have thought the world was flat. So, they would think the Flood covered all the world.

Answer 1

gentle gospel student. The entire globe was covered. Simple as that from the tip of the higest mountain, to the bottom of the sea. Water came up from subterrerian resivoirs and oceans.

even native american myth and ideology concours that the globe was covered.

Answer 2

Contary to popular opinion, there is no global flood in every religion or society. Not every mythology has a flood, most notably the Egyptians, who with the Mesopotamians would be the ones who were around to see such a 'flood.' Some people point to all cultures having floods, such as the Chinese, the Greeks, and various American tribes, but the stories are completely different. The Chinese story has no ark. The Greek version (based on the Sumerian) has no animals. The Norse version has no water! It's a flood of blood, and it was before the creation of man. And, as noted, the Egyptians have no flood story, because floods to them were beneficial, not something of which to be frightened.

The biblical flood is based on an earlier story in Babylonian and Sumerian myth. There was no 'Noah' in the sense you believe because Noah is a literary figure based on Utapishtim, who is based on Atrahasis, who is based on Ziusudra, the Sumerian flood hero. The original story was written down 2000 years before 'Noah's story.' The original flood was localized in the Mesopotamian river valley.

There were no animals in the first version. Later versions claimed seven pairs of animals were taken into the ark. The original story also had the flood last for 6 days/nights, then 14 days/nights, then 40 in the familiar biblical story.

You can believe the Bible is Truth all you want (you do not 'know' so make the distinction there) but the fact is the story is late to the scene historically speaking. If there actually was a real flood, explain kangaroos, cougars, elk, polar bears, Bengal tigers, and the other numerous animals that only exist in other areas of the world. Kangaroos have existed only in Australia for millions of years, not the past 5000. Elk have existed in the Americas for millions of years, they were not brought by Noah's sons. One must use some common sense in reading these stories which were never intended to be literal, even by their ancient authors.

Answer 3

There is archaeological evidence as to the extent of the flood. It was a fairly local event of the Caspian region. There are many things in the Bible that have alternate geologic, archeology and historical evidence as references.

One of the functional ideas of science is that the key to the past is the present. You can play the game of telephone to see how accurately stories are transmitted by spoken traditions. When you play that game you see how each person hears, interprets and transmits messages. The messages are always distorted in some way. Often the message is unrecognizable.

The same process has been going on with the sacred stories of all religions. By the time they are written down several hundred years later there has been considerable articulation. That is why there are more than 1,500 slightly different versions of the Bible. I have read about a dozen. Which one is true? I read Spanish well. I have read two versions of the Bible in Spanish. It is completely different in Spanish. And they are very different from each other. Which is true?

When you say,"But, the people that wrote the Bible must also have thought the world was flat." you begin to unravel the mystery. The people who told the original stories and who centuries later wrote them down, were pretty ignorant people who believed in magic and all manner of unnatural goings on. We live in a natural universe. Magic doesn't happen here.

They were also fairly savage. They sacrificed their children and practiced cannibalism both literally and symbolically.

That is the historic context in which we encounter the Bible. That is the reality of the bible. To me it is nothing but the stories told by ignorant savages about things they did not understand. Is it true? It represents truth to those who cannot question the origins and doctrines of the socio/religious group that publishes the Bible one has in hand.

Does it say what is so? It is not even possible for it to say what is so.

The flooding coming from global warming is the flood to worry about.

Answer 4

I think the story of the flood was an allegory for explaining a topic. You have to also ask if all the animals of the earth fit into the ark.

There is some evidence that the Black Sea used to be an inland lake. Due to earth movement, earthquake perhaps, the Bosporus was breached and the salt water from the Mediterranean flowed in and drowned a huge valley. To the people in the area it would have seemed the whole earth was drowned.

There is not enough water in the world to cover say Mt Everest. That would be the whole Earth up to almost 29,000 feet - nearly six miles.

Finding shells in dry areas is not an explanation. There are areas that once were under the sea. The Coachella Valley (Palm Springs) once was beneath the sea. The rising and falling of continents and areas of the earth is not an explanation of the great flood.

Answer 5

I believe the flood did cover th whole planet. But, it those times the"whole planet" was probably a couple states at most. Also they probably had a lot of water ( they could have been by an ocean, lakes etc.) there and maybe a dam broke and a flash flood came.
There are also many possibilities for many other religious events i. e. in Egypt with Mosses, some theologians work to try and figure it all out.

Answer 6

Young man, the story of Noah's Flood is just a myth. The Bible is just a collection of folklore, and it's NOT THE TRUTH. You have been brainwashed at a young age, and that is normal for churches to do, as at a young age it is easy to tell made up stories to children, to make them believers, and then "follow" them. In the end, they really want just two things: 1) they want you to do what THEY want; and 2) they want your money (in return, they give you the chance for salvation). But it's all a myth, made up by ignorant, but well meaning, people, who made a living by doing this.

Answer 7

I think that it was ust a localized flood. For there to be enough water to cover the entire earth, and then for it to suddenly dissapear so that we have as much land as we do now, is pretty much impossible. A local flood, durring Noah's time, would have been known as a world flood, as people did not know much outside of where their family lived, in those days. There were few explorers or other people who really traveled, so the "world" to them, would be the region that they lived in.

Answer 8

This should be in the Mythology section.
How can the bible be the truth if the people who wrote it thought the earth was flat?

Answer 9

YES - - - - and despite all scientific doodling if both Polar Ice Caps and all the Glaciers of the Earth melted there would be sufficent wet to cover the Earth..... But scientist are equally correct when they point out Regional Floods as the likely origini of Biblical and other 'legendary great floods....

Peace.......................

Answer 10

I don't know the answer but this is ssuch a good question I'm giving you a star.