Is it possible Noah's flood is at least partly true?

Question

Archelogical evidence is against a global flood, but what about a global event? It is possible for a comet to provide the water that is missing from the story which every culture has a version? We all know once it enters the atmosphere the natural balance is upset.

Depending on the size and if there is anything left...where do those pieces go? In the water? What kind of weather disaster would that create? According to Scriptures (Bible, Quran, etc) this wasn't a one day event but happened over a period of time.

Not everyone was an idiot back then...could other people have prepared or remembered Noah's rantings when it all went down? If all of the giants, monsters, wicked men, (which ever you chose to believe) supposedly died, then where did Goliath come from? David was SEVERAL generations later! Is it safe to say more than just Noah and his family survived?

Come one, come all! I welcome athiests because you keep us searching--Thank you!

maybe I should say tsunami....water displacement...

I don't necessarily believe it was a global flood either. This story has been told and retold and with different language translation/interpretation, it could have been a tsunami in some areas.

We all remembered what happened a few years ago.

AND I know there were giants, monsters etc Nephillum Grigori...that's a WHOLE different discussion, but the fact there is 'religious' record of David battling a giant centuries later leads me to believe more people were heeding the warnings than the Bible is letting on!

As far as Mt. Everest...there is no evidence it was totally covered...its a little east to even be considered.

Besides Mt. Everest fits my survival theory--a mountain that big...people could have sealed themselves in the caves or just resided in the caves until they could return to low lying areas!

Come on people THINK!!! How would you survive?

travelguruette- Now that's what I'm talking about! This story is being told from one person's persective-a finite perspective whether it is Noah, Gilgamesh, or any other character named.

The world is round so the effects of whatever it was would have been totally different

Answer 1

Yes, partly! :)

Check out this alternative solution:

7. THE FLOODS IN MESOPOTAMIA

The river dwellers were accustomed to rivers overflowing their banks at certain seasons; these periodic floods were annual events in their lives. But new perils threatened the valley of Mesopotamia as a result of progressive geologic changes to the north.

For thousands of years after the submergence of the first Eden the mountains about the eastern coast of the Mediterranean and those to the northwest and northeast of Mesopotamia continued to rise. This elevation of the highlands was greatly accelerated about 5000 B.C., and this, together with greatly increased snowfall on the northern mountains, caused unprecedented floods each spring throughout the Euphrates valley. These spring floods grew increasingly worse so that eventually the inhabitants of the river regions were driven to the eastern highlands. For almost a thousand years scores of cities were practically deserted because of these extensive deluges.

Almost five thousand years later, as the Hebrew priests in Babylonian captivity sought to trace the Jewish people back to Adam, they found great difficulty in piecing the story together; and it occurred to one of them to abandon the effort, to let the whole world drown in its wickedness at the time of Noah's flood, and thus to be in a better position to trace Abraham right back to one of the three surviving sons of Noah.

The traditions of a time when water covered the whole of the earth's surface are universal. Many races harbor the story of a world-wide flood some time during past ages. The Biblical story of Noah, the ark, and the flood is an invention of the Hebrew priesthood during the Babylonian captivity. There has never been a universal flood since life was established on Urantia. The only time the surface of the earth was completely covered by water was during those Archeozoic ages before the land had begun to appear.

But Noah really lived; he was a wine maker of Aram, a river settlement near Erech. He kept a written record of the days of the river's rise from year to year. He brought much ridicule upon himself by going up and down the river valley advocating that all houses be built of wood, boat fashion, and that the family animals be put on board each night as the flood season approached. He would go to the neighboring river settlements every year and warn them that in so many days the floods would come. Finally a year came in which the annual floods were greatly augmented by unusually heavy rainfall so that the sudden rise of the waters wiped out the entire village; only Noah and his immediate family were saved in their houseboat.

These floods completed the disruption of Andite civilization. With the ending of this period of deluge, the second garden was no more. Only in the south and among the Sumerians did any trace of the former glory remain.

The remnants of this, one of the oldest civilizations, are to be found in these regions of Mesopotamia and to the northeast and northwest. But still older vestiges of the days of Dalamatia exist under the waters of the Persian Gulf, and the first Eden lies submerged under the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.

read more at: http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper78.html#7.%20THE%20FLOODS%20IN%20MESOPOTAMIA

Answer 2

So far, some of the evidence is against the Flood account, if you choose to believe their side. However, why is the oldest tree in the world only 4300 yrs old? Why is the Great Barrier Reef 4200 yrs old? How can they explain trees growing through many layers of soil all over the planet, some of them upside down? There are almost 300 cultures that have their beginnings from 8 survivors of a world wide flood. The gilgamesh epic tells of the same event, it was just written before the Biblical account. There are many accounts of people actually entering the Ark. I would suggest getting all of the evidence and making a decision.
Kent Hovind has a theory that uses science and clears up many questions that I had.
Most of the water came from under the crust of the earth, and when that asswaged, it formed the mountain ranges. The mountain ranges are parallel to the oceans. The Continental Shelf was the original beach line. As the ice from the Ice Age was melting, it ran into the oceans and made them deeper and colder. There is so much more that proves a world wide flood. Go to gracebyfaith for a good read on the giants of the earth. It will amaze you.

Answer 3

Well, if it came from a comet, there wouldn't be much of a need to build an ark, because most people would have been wiped out by the comet. Do a little research on what the world would be like if an asteroid were to hit the Earth and you'll see what I'm talking about.

Now, as for any other ideas, if it makes people feel better to think that there was once a great big flood, then more power to them. However, there is not enough water on Earth to flood all the land---not enough to cover the highest mountains by 20 ft, anyway. Now, I realize that some have found ways of getting around this, pretty imaginative ways, too. I guess we all believe what makes the most sense to us.

I would say that the reason why most cultures have accounts of gigantic floods is because, well, virtually all areas of the globe in which people live have floods. Those floods no doubt get people's imaginations working, and then stories are born. I'm sure most cultures have haunted house stories, too, for the same reason. Now, whether or not some houses really are haunted remains to be seen, as does the authenticity of the flood story.

Answer 4

From what I've read there is some archeological evidence of a flood or periodic heavy rains that may have been at least part of the way the biblical flood is described. However, the one as described in the Bible was far more severe and there is no evidence of Noah or the animals in terms of archaeology. People were not idiots back then, but they thought differently than we do today--although not that much differently. But it was a lot easier to take a small bit of reality and shape it to whatever story you wanted and people believed it, unlike today where we have more sophisticated ways of examining evidence. In fact, even the idea of 'evidence' did not exist in Biblical times, so the other aspects of your inquiry about giants, monsters, etc., has little relevance regarding what is true or not because the idea of truth was different then. Today the definition of a fact is usually thought to be "something that you could try to disprove but can't." So, for example, "I could say there is a sun" Then I could try to prove there isn't a sun. But I'd fail because every means of determining if there is a sun shows there really IS one. Could you do that for any of the 'truths' about giants, monsters, etc?

Answer 5

I find it interesting that so many cultures who developed separately have a "flood" story in their mythology.

Flood myths in various cultures
1. Ancient Near East
A. Sumerian
B. Babylonian (Epic of Gilgamesh)
C. Akkadian (Atrahasis Epic)
D.Hebrew

2. Asia-Pacific
A. China
B. India
C. Andaman Islands
D. Indonesia
E. Australia

3. Europe
A. Greek
B. Ogyges
C. Deucalion
D. Dardanus
E. Germanic
F. Irish

4. Americas
A. Aztec
B. Inca
C. Chibcha and Muisca
D. Maya
E. Hopi
F. Caddo
G. Menominee
H. Mi'kmaq

5. Polynesian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_flood#Hebrew

Answer 6

The Noah story? probably legend.

The comet strike hypothesis? possible, but unlikely. Study up on some astronomy. So far as we can tell (and Hollywood movies notwithstanding), comet strikes are extremely rare.

The global flood? again, highly unlikely. It's possible there was a devastating _local_ flood somewhere in what's now the Mediterranean basin, and it's possible that such an event was the basis for the widespread flood myths that were carried and passed on orally by the peoples of the region.

You have a lot to learn. Good luck.

Answer 7

Could, but there is no way of knowing for sure. Something did happen in antiquity, a about 3114 BC, and changed the face of the earth. Whether it was a deluge or some other natural catastrophe, one can not say. You need to look at the geological evidence. The only thing that could have caused a flood of this magnitude, would be the melting of the polar ice caps from the last Ice Age, but that occurred 11,000 years ago. about 6,000 year prior to the story of Noah's 'flood'.

Answer 8

Considering that cultures as wide ranging as the Greeks and the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest have flood stories I would say that there is ample evidence for a global event that could be interpreted as "Noah's Flood"

Answer 9

Yes it is partially true. The story came from Babylon and involved a king called Gilgamesh. The Epic Of Gilgamesh is the first known writing of the Noah story. It predates the bible story by a thousand years or more.

Answer 10

There is a massive flood recorded in nearly every religious book in the world.

It is improbable that all these peoples from across the lands recorded such an event without it actually having happened to at least some degree.

God bless.