I do not believe that Noah's Ark ever existed. Basically, I want to know what other anecdotes in the Bible are disputed. Did they happen or did they not?
Jonah and the whale would have to be another one.
If so many stories are disputed even by Christians, does that allow you to further question Christianity?
2007-11-15 06:03:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good Lord. I prefer answers to the question I asked, not pity or sorrow. Much love!
2007-11-15 06:09:01 · update #1
Unless you are a small child, it would be hard to believe the fable of Noah's ark since it is completely illogical.
There are hundreds of thousands of different animal species on the earth. So many in fact, that even one of today's modern super aircraft carriers could not hold them all; much less an ark of the size that Noah built.
I have a list of biblical contradictions that is over two pages long. So it would not be appropriate to post them here. If you want them I'll be glad to email them to you, or anyone else who desires to have them.
2007-11-15 08:42:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
One legend that EVERY culture has is a story of a flood that wiped out civilization.
I have two hypothesis on this.
One is the end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago. It is well established that sea levels rose up to 200 feet or more when this happened. There is a cave in France which has Neolithic painting in the upper galleries. The entrance is now 200 feet under water, on an ancient beach. From what we know of climatology today, it is possible that this may have happened relatively quickly.
There is also mounting geologic evidence of a giant asteroid impact in the Indian ocean in early biblical times which unleashed the mother of all tsunamis, and just about did for the Human race.
If you stop and look at a demographic of population centers, even today we tend to congregate near the ocean. An early civilization would have naturally started building cities near the ocean. It simply gives too many advantages in terms of food and trade to ignore.
If the cradle of civilization is within 200 feet of sea level, and the seas rise, either by Tsunami or by climate change, your civilization is now under water. The only people left are illiterate hillbillies.
The evidence of American Indian expansion down the west coast is erased, leaving scientists scratching their heads over how Clovis points got into South America before the great plains.
And those hillbillies talk about it for generation afterwards. The story gets bigger and eventually consumes the whole world. And their children’s children ask questions. “But what about the animals?” An ark extemporaneously gets added to the story. The American Indians have a story of an ark which saved the animals as well. I have met tribal people in the jungles of the Philippines who pointed to a nearby peak and told me “That was where our people went when Noah’s flood came”.
2007-11-15 06:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes you are right. Some of the stories in the bible are not 100% true and are there to represent the graetness of Gid and his power, Noah's ark being one of them but the crucifiction of Jesus was 100% true as there is historic evidence in that event in time and evidence that Jesus did exist. In Fact it is more likely that Jesus existed than it is for Julia Ceaser to have existed.
2007-11-15 06:13:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do the homework.The Biblical accounts have been proven time and again.Even the Jonah story has been proven to be possible.People have been inside of large sea creatures and survived to tell about it.Models of the Ark using the Biblical dimensions prove it was incredibly seaworthy.
2007-11-15 06:10:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Adam and eve
talking bushes snakes or donkeys.
tower of babble
The two angels that visit Lot wash their feet, eat, and are sexually irresistible to Sodomites
Moses hits a rock with his rod and Presto! -- water comes out
2007-11-15 06:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Virgin Birth
Talking Serpent
Incest populating world
women turning into salt pillar
tower of babel
walking on water
rising from the dead
ever get the idea, that jesus was the original "chuck norris?"
2007-11-15 06:09:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
...we do have the ability to question all aspects of what we believe...
...but we may find that we still believe, even after all the disputing and questioning...
...I know I have
2007-11-15 06:09:57 · answer #7 · answered by jamestheprophet 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder if you believe in the Resurection of Christ? If you do then how do you have the ability to pick and choose what is fact and what is not. If you don't, well, I feel sorry for you
2007-11-15 06:07:16 · answer #8 · answered by gtahvfaith 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Tasha what is the evidence that Jesus Christ existed?
2007-11-15 06:25:00 · answer #9 · answered by Monkey Man 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Umm... talking bushes that spontaneously combust.
2007-11-15 06:07:10 · answer #10 · answered by Blackacre 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋