The great flood recorded in the Genesis which Noah survived by building an Ark.
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How could animals have gotten all around the world after the flood?
I am a Christian, but this question has been troubling me for a long time. If all the world's animals dispersed from Mt. Ararat, it would stand to reason that there should be no animals in the ...
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What is the Roman Catholic position on literally reading the Flood account in Genesis?
Elsewhere on this site, the question of whether the Roman Catholic church supported evolution was answered with evidence that the Catholic position is that evolution could be true. That is, because ...
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What does the story of Noah's Ark foreshadow in the New Testament?
I have seen Noah's Ark listed one of the "types" in Scripture--something that occurred, but that also foreshadowed something else that would come later.
What exactly, then, does the Ark of Noah ...
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How do Bible Literalists deal with trees older than the flood?
According to Answers in Genesis, the flood happened in approximately 2348 BC, which means it would've happened about 4360 years ago. Wikipedia has a list of the oldest individual trees known, of which ...
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If God were going to send another Biblical flood, would He warn us?
It goes without saying - Before 'The Flood of Noah', God warned Noah that it was coming.
But I wonder - If most of humanity turned evil again, and God was about to send another Biblical flood, would ...
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How does evolution (genetic diversity) play out from Noah's Ark?
This is somewhat related to How did all the animals fit into Noah's ark?
One of the comments read: "How does one propose to produce the various species/sub-species simply from 'some sort of cat', ...
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Was there enough water in the world to cover the earth?
Some people say that the story of Noah and flood is false, because there simply wasn't enough water in the world to cover the entire earth in a flood. As it is written:
And the waters became ...
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Why didn't God send Jesus during Noah's time instead of The Flood?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life. - John 3:16
John 3:16 tells us that God loved us, ...
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What narrative purpose does the Flood story fulfill?
In the Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh flood myth, the gods are rash, foolish, even weak.
Genesis copies most of the myth. And although it's sanitized quite a bit, some actions seem to be ...
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What did the carnivores/predators eat on the Ark?
It's something that has stumped me since I was a kid:
What did the carnivores/predators eat on the Ark?
Did Noah also round up sufficient vegetation to feed all of the animals? Or did they somehow ...
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While on Noah's Ark, did the animals remain celibate?
While on Noah's Ark, did the animals remain celibate?
If the elephants, rhinos, or giraffes, for instance, did not remain celibate, I'd imagine that things could get pretty hectic and pretty crowded ...
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How did Noah preserve fresh water fish?
How did Noah prevent fresh water fish from dying when salt water inundated inland waterways during the claimed floods? I'm not sure which Christian doctrines take the literalist position but what is ...
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What did the animals eat when they emerged from the ark? [closed]
Given that Noah had to rescue 2 of a kind of every animal and fit them all in the ark, and given that he would've had to feed them while they were in his captivity:
If after the flood there were only ...
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Significance of Methuselah's death year
This is something I noted once when reading Genesis, and am still wondering if there's any meaning to it.
Genesis tells us that Noah was 599-600 years old1 when the flood came.
Genesis 7:11 (ESV)
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How was the earth divided? (Gen. 10:25)
Gen. 10:25
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Through some simple math, we know that Peleg ...
