It seems like anybody with half a brain would have realized that their house and neighborhood were flooding and get into a boat. Why didn't people do this?
2007-11-23 08:46:34 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Do those people who say that it didn't rain prior to the flood have any Biblical evidence to support that claim? How about geological evidence?
Even if it didn't rain before the flood, people still had boats, right? Why didn't they use those boats?
And to those who say "he tried convincing people, but it was too late:" it took God 40 days to flood the Earth (Gen 7:12). I would think that after the first 10 days of rain or few inches of water, people would have realized what was going on.
2007-11-23 08:56:41 · update #1
no one had boats god helped noah build the only boat in the world
2007-11-23 08:49:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-24 03:34:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2016-04-05 05:11:27 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probable that others had boats. They could not have known that the flood would get as bad as it did. If they did get into boats, they would have no idea of adding enough food to last them at least 150 days (Gen. 7:24). Then it took over a month more for the water to recede (Gen. 8).
2007-11-23 09:49:41 · answer #4 · answered by Steve Husting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah tried to warn others that the flood was coming,so they could build boats big enough to live on and store enough food for 40 days and 40 nights but no one believed him,so all the boats they already had were no good against such a flood.
2007-11-23 08:55:10 · answer #5 · answered by sas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1 Peter 3:20-22 God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also-not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ~(from New International Version)
2007-11-23 09:00:14 · answer #6 · answered by Chapter and Verse 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In this time, there was no rain. Rain had never fell from the sky before. Instead the earth was watered from underground springs. I believe that the entire time that Noah was building the ark, he was preaching to the others telling them to prepare, but the world was full of wickedness and the people mocked him and told him he was crazy. I bet when the rain came they were made believers but by then it was to late. Noah was the only man on earth that found favor in the eyes of the Lord and so the Lord told him to build the ark...in obeying the Almighty, Noah and his family were spared because of their faith and obedience.
2007-11-23 08:58:35 · answer #7 · answered by loveChrist 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nah. Boats weren't invented back then. Those that could clung on to floating logs for as long as they could. That was until the rats on those logs got hungry.
Anyway.. why do you think Noah built an Ark? I mean.. can you imagine what people must have been thinking about him? Even the name of that thing sounds stupid. Ark... Ark ark
Ark ark ark ... I'm building an ark. People must have thought he was a gonna.
2007-11-23 08:58:38 · answer #8 · answered by Icy Gazpacho 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many cultures with a Flood myth and a hero that builds a boat and saves his family and local animals. Several American Indian ones and a Celtic that I remember.
2007-11-23 08:53:07 · answer #9 · answered by Aravah 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Apparently Noah received the necessary boat-making technology in a vision or something otherwise he would not have known how to build nor have had the tools (which he got by magic) to complete such a massive project. People weren't bobbing about in galeons at the time, you know. And humongous sturdy boats are surprisingly tricky to build.
2007-11-23 08:51:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
They probably had boats. Just not big enough to save them from a world wide flood...
2007-11-23 13:34:00 · answer #11 · answered by Art 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋