Did Noah take 2 of every fish?

Answer 1

this question although funny has no merit. How would fish be affected by a flood? Swim an get to the surface for air there would be no reason for him to take fish.

Answer 2

No, I'm pretty sure he didn't. If you take a look at Genesis 6:20, it says that God commanded Noah to take pairs of every kind of animal and every kind of bird with him on the boat. Birds obviously does not refer to fish. Animals, however, could go either way. But if you read the fifth and sixth days of creation fish are referred to as fish, and land animals are just referred to as animals. I think this is enough to say that there were no fish on the ark.

Answer 3

Due to a flood happening Noah had to take 2 of every living animal.God knew fish lived in water so,Noah only had to get animals that lived on land.But I'm not really sure.I know birds,elephants,tigers and etc was on ark.

Answer 4

The story of Noah and the Ark is based on Jewish mythology and folklore. It is a parable meant to teach a divine truth: God saves his people.

The Bible was written by many, many different human authors over a period of approximately 1500 years. These human authors were inspired by God, that is, God breathed ideas into them, which He wanted expressed, and they expressed these ideas in their own way. It was not their intention to write a book that would be entered into "The Bible," as we know it. The whole thrust was to preserve the traditions of how God dealt with His people.

Since the Bible is not one book, but a library of books, there are many different kinds of writing in these books, e.g., prose, proverbs, parables, prophecy, prayers, poetry, (narrative hymns), legends, legal documents, letters, sermons, songs, stories, etc. This is called Literary Form.

In order to be able to understand a passage of the Bible one must be aware of:
1. In what form it was written, e.g., prose, poetry, history, etc. (Literary Form)
2. Why it was written.
3. When it was written.
4. What is the whole book about?
5. What is the meaning of each word?

How does it fit in with other parts of the Bible on the same subject?


The "Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation" (Vat. 11, Ch. 3.11) of the Catholic Church says that "all that the inspired, or sacred writers, affirm should be regarded as affirmed by the Holy Spirit, we must acknowledge that the books of Scripture firmly, and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to be confided to the sacred Scriptures." This is the Church's teaching on the matter after twenty centuries of Christian discernment.

Biblical inerrancy, then, is the Bible's privilege of never teaching error. Does this mean that every statement in the Bible is divine teaching? Of course not. The Bible does not always teach. There are many statements in its various books that are there for historical, geographical, poetic or other reasons. However, whenever a biblical author intends to teach us something, then the Holy Spirit intends that too. Everything that the Bible teaches is without error, but everything in the Bible is not meant as teaching. Each author was left free by the Lord to express himself according to the ideas of his own day.
Exegesis (interpretation) is the science whereby scholars determine the correct interpretation of the text. The Bible is unique, for it is the word of God coming to us in the words of men. Therefore, biblical exegesis demands that we find out what both the human author and the Holy Spirit are trying to say.

True exegesis is Fides quaerens intellectum, which means that faith seeks understanding. So the seeker must approach the Word from the point of faith and love, for the inspired writers communicated the Word in the language of faith and love. To refuse to do this is to have the Bible remain closed to us, even if we can write a literary analysis of every book in it.

The advantages of the Catholic approach are two: First, the inspiration is really proved, not just "felt." Second, the main fact behind the proof—the reality of an infallible, teaching Church—leads one naturally to an answer to the problem that troubled the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:30-31): How is one to know which interpretations are correct? The same Church that authenticates the Bible, that attests to its inspiration, is the authority established by Christ to interpret his word.


Sources:

scborromeo.org
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Catechism of the Catholic Church

Frances Hogan
Can you trust the Bible?

catholic.com/library

Answer 5

Good question! I never really thought about that. Probably not because the earth was flooded and all the rivers and oceans ran together.

Answer 6

Damn Good question!!!

Ask Noah.

Answer 7

They swam behind.All the animals were babies.The fish could swim for themselves .

Answer 8

I am curious. Did they have aquariums back then? Or fish bowls?

Answer 9

this is almost like a religion orthodox. LOL. thats a lot of fish. lol

Answer 10

yes of course