I know they had ships that could withstand storms back then. Why did everybody else stay on land and drown?
2007-10-17 02:24:17 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why was it too late once it started raining? Couldn't they just get on the boat and go?
I would think that at some point before drowning people would realize that they had a boat. After the ground was covered in a foot or so of water, why didn't they get on their boats just in case?
2007-10-17 02:31:04 · update #1
May be they did not get time..or there was no sea at that place, so boats also not there.
2007-10-17 02:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by Happily Happy 7 · 3⤊ 6⤋
Answer 1:
God sank all the boats during the flood.
Answer 2:
to cover the Earth you need about 5 miles of water to fall in 40 days. Most boats were open on top. No one could keep up with the bailing. That's 5.5 inches a minute. For 40 days.
Answer 3:
When God got all the animals to come to the ark he had the termites stop off at all the other boats.
Answer 4:
There were other boats, but they did not have the year worth of food and water supplies needed.
Answer 5:
It was in the script.
Of course all but 1 and 5 could be said to apply to the ark too . . . . At least a regular boat would not have broken up on the first ocean wave, which a wooden boat the size of the ark would have.
2007-10-17 02:35:44 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The probability is high that those who had boats jumped into them.
However, lately submerged 'cities' have been discovered at great depths -- if people who lived in coastal cities / villages lived as most do today with small fishing boats, then you can imagine yourself languishing in these for perhaps a week up to a fortnight and slowly running out of food and water.
It is not a pleasant way to die.
2007-10-17 02:41:20 · answer #3 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He did the flood business so quickly that all the other boats flew up in the air in surprise. They landed too far away for all the evil doomed people to reach, no matter how hard their evil little legs and arms could paddle.
2007-10-17 02:29:31 · answer #4 · answered by Bajingo 6 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Lol, true. I don't get how the boat held all those species. And since Christians don't believe in evolution, it's not like everything on earth now could have grown out of what was on the boat.
2007-10-17 02:28:16 · answer #5 · answered by sticky 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Maybe it's just an old compfire story that some people want to believe is true. Like the people that believe in all those urban legends.
2007-10-17 02:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Good question and yet another in a long list of problems with the story.
I guess the polar ice caps being over 160,000 years old isn't proof enough that it didn't occur.
2007-10-17 02:33:37 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
This is my personal thoughts....I believe that the Ark really wasnt designed for the Animals. In reality I believe God wanted people to fill the boat. Scripture states that God isn't willing that any should parish but all come to repentance. Noah preached to the same people for a hundred odd years and no one responded. WHY??? Because some loony man claimed that water was going to fall from the sky. Now that was completely crazy!!! Because from creation to that point in time a midst came up from the groud and watered the earth. The people didn't get on is because they didnt believe what he was saying. Hope this helps .
2007-10-17 02:33:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
Maybe the other people starved on their boats, because they didn't have as many delicious animals to eat as Noah did.
2007-10-17 02:28:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
They were too busy sodomising each other if you believe the biblical version. Maybe God came to them in dreams and told them not to build boats.
Of course Noah slept with both his daughters (in his version they had sex with him without his knowledge, and without waking him - yeah right) so maybe god should have killed him, too.
I haven't watched that recent film Evan Almighty because it looked like utter rubbish. I bet they skipped the part where he had sex with his daughters huh?
2007-10-17 02:33:08 · answer #10 · answered by Leviathan 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Because only Noah were told by God to make an arc for his family...God made the great flood for the sinful people
2007-10-17 03:29:09 · answer #11 · answered by kadsukichan 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋