And, where in the Bible can I find how Noah managed to gather polar bears, baboons and koalas?
What did the lions, cheetahs and hyenas eat while on the Ark? Did they eat the antelope couple?
Please give me a well informed answer, don't use your typical "God did it" fallback answer.
Thanks in advance.
2007-10-10 05:15:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, now don't allow such little details to make you question the validity of the Holy Bible. Just pray about it!
2007-10-10 05:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by Zombie 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
good questions, which can hardly be answered today with any accuracy. But Christians should not believe in God because "the bible tell me so". We should believe specific things in the Bible which the Holy Spirit has enlightened to us.
In the Bible, the words of God, men, angels, demons, Satan himself and even a donkey if you accept it, are recorded.
I take the whole Bible at face value but am moved by only certain verses when God speaks to me through them. I don't run out and do everything that is written.
Were there Polar bears on the Ark?
Were there full grown trees with age rings on the first day of the creation of trees?
I can't guarantee it but then if God can create balls of flaming gas surrounded by synchronized spinning globes, one of which is covered with water, if he can create these human bodies and brains, if he can make himself a body of flesh in a virgin woman, turn water in to wine, walk on water, literally control and reform the elements he spoke in to existence, then....
I like your answer Susan G.
2007-10-10 05:41:08 · answer #2 · answered by Gypsy Priest 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh good grief. First, none of us were there during the Flood - so no one can possibly intelligently answer your question. Anyone who claims to know is either wise beyond belief or delusional. Second, the Flood story is in many religions' histories which leads me to think that it has some basis in reality. The logistics of the whole Ark thing doesn't make much sense but ultimately it's a nice story that may or may not be completely accurate. The point of the story is that God loves us and we are to have faith in him (for believers). For non-believers I suppose it provides more fuel to the fire to ridicule those whose points of view they don't agree with and can't respect. In any event, I like the story even with it's flaws.
2007-10-10 05:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by Susan G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NOT all Christians are creationist..
Not all take every Bible story literally.
Christians are not the only religion that have a flood story..Even some of the Inuit do.
What was the salinity level after the flood? How many species didn't evolve and went extinct? Maybe the Inuit handled the polar bears. The bible says all the animals in the ark ate plants...I just bought vegetarian dog food for my dog..she loves it.
If you don't believe why do you ask? You are FREE to believe as you wish.
2007-10-10 05:29:41 · answer #4 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I can't hear you! Na na na, naa-naa!
To Susan: lol-I like the story of Gilgamesh and when a 'loving Father' drowns me, why, that makes his 'love' very clear.
To the 'others': There are various flood stories all over the world b/c the earth went through a flooding period. Archaeologists have never found evidence of one happening at the same time over the entire globe and mathematicians have done the math and concluded that the earth could not hold enough water to cover all land at the same time and stay in it's orbit.
2007-10-10 05:32:59 · answer #5 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK if you look at the bible God told Noah to gather them after there Kind not species so he wouldn't have to get cheetahs and lion because in essences they are all cats. And in terms of evolve yes over time different animals did evolve in the sense that they stayed the same Kind of animal with different characteristics. Humans didn't come from monkeys but we did evolve in the type of features that we have just like a chimp and a baboon.
2007-10-10 05:23:43 · answer #6 · answered by Reshonda P 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The rain-water dissolved salt from the land in some places as the water-levels rose... and not in others.... resulting in patches of salt-water (for the sea-fish) and fresh-water (for the river-fish).
Polar bears, Baboons and Koalas aren't mentioned individually in the bible but rather included in the collective terms referring to all animals.
Lions, Cheetahs and Hyenas ate the Unicorns while on the Ark... as well as several species of Antelope we no longer find in the world.
There. Your well-informed answer.
Well..... informed by the voices in my head.
2007-10-10 05:22:54 · answer #7 · answered by Lucid Interrogator 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Genesis 7
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.
****Note in this verse it clearly states that ALL the animals came to Noah******
2007-10-10 22:33:41 · answer #8 · answered by Spoken4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah built giant aquariums to house the fish on the ark - everything outside got destroyed, remember?
2007-10-10 05:23:43 · answer #9 · answered by Nea 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The writers of the bible didn't know that the sudden change in worldwide salinity that was caused by the flood would have killed virtually every fish in the oceans or in fresh water, and fundies don't seem to know that either.
2007-10-10 05:31:47 · answer #10 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be more precise for you to address these questions to "Creationists" or some such label than to "Christians," since many (most?) Christians accept the fossil record, the basic idea of evolution, multi-billion year history of the universe, etc., etc.
2007-10-10 05:41:28 · answer #11 · answered by wilsonch0 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋