“And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy the earth. Make yourself an ark…” (Genesis 6:13-14, English Standard Version) “For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die.” (Genesis 6:17, ESV) “And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.” (Genesis 6:19, ESV) “Noah did this; he did all that God commanded him.” (Genesis 6:22, ESV) “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.” (Genesis 7:11-12, ESV) Everyone has heard the story of Noah’s ark and the great Flood. But is that all it is? Just a story? If a catastrophe of this scale really happened, it would have left plenty of evidence behind. And it did. The fossil record shows evidence of a small period of time in which all the major groups of life (phyla) appear without ancestors. (Wieland, n.d.) This alleged explosion of evolution is called the Cambrian explosion. However, Christians believe the Cambrian explosion is actually the Flood, in which all life on earth is rapidly buried by sediments picked up from the flood waters. Another piece of evidence for the Flood is the perfectly preserved mammoths. The mammoths show signs of being instantly buried and frozen, many while standing up. (Brown, 1995-2013) Evidence for this is fou... ... middle of paper ... ...ttps://www.boundless.com/biology/evolution-and-the-origin-of-species/understanding-evolution/evidence-of-evolution/ Wieland, C. Exploding Evolution. Creation.com. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://creation.com/exploding-evolution Wise, K. 2009. One: Life’s Unexpected Explosion. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v5/n1/life-explosion Creation Today. Is the Grand Canyon Proof of Noah’s Flood?. Retrieved 4/21/2014 from http://www.creationtoday.org/grand-canyon-proof/ Morris, J. 1993. Was There Really an Ice Age?. Retrieved 4/20/14 from http://www.icr.org/article/was-there-really-ice-age/ Zimmermann, K. 2013. Grand Canyon: Location, Formation, & Facts. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://www.livescience.com/27489-grand-canyon.html The Grand Canyon –Amazing Proof of Noah’s Flood. n.d. Retrieved 4/11/2014 from http://www.grandcanyonflood.com/
The Epic of Gilgamesh records a story of a world-wide flood and pre-dates Genesis. So some claim that this invalidates the Genesis record. But P.J. Wiseman presents an interesting theory in this regard in his book Ancient Records and the Structure of Genesis (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1985).
Except for the creation, the flood of Noah’s day is the most awesome event this world has ever known. The Bible details this event; telling when it began and ended, how long it lasted and why it happened. (Gen. 7:11-24) And, it is mentioned many times in the Bible. The Lord Himself made mention of it. (Matt. 24:38-39)
6-11: The "son of God" came down and married daughters. Some think they were fallen angels but angels can get married or have relations. The lord gave Noah 120 years to change. Then Noah builds the arch. He tells him to get 2 of every animal, a male and a mate. Tells him in seven days they will be rains and a flood. Was the flood local or universal, I think we talked about that enough in class. After 40 days Noah sent the bird out and it came back with positive report.
On our planet, phenomena’s occur occasionally in nature. Tornadoes, earthquakes, and flashfloods are all types of phenomena’s that could occur. Most of these mysterious events are small and go unnoticed; however, on a rare occasion these sorts of event can be horrendous. One such occasion occurred back around 4,000 BC (Werner Keller, 48). As the story goes, God’s population was growing rapidly on earth. At this point, he had been growing bored with the same people on earth so he made sure no man would live past the age of 120. Given this time, the people of earth started to take advantage of the human race; these acts of selfishness disgusted God. He decided to destroy everything on earth. A man by the name of Noah had lived his life by God’s nature, which eventually led to a close relationship between the two. God had told Noah to build a boat with exact measurements. God had instructed Noah to put two of every kind of animal into the boat; one had to be male and the other female. Then God told Noah to get into the boat with his family, their families, and the animals. Then for forty days and forty nights the clouds seemed to have poured endless amounts of water onto the earth (Genesis 6:1-9). Floods rushed through the landscape, destroying everything in its path. The waters were higher than the tallest mountains, standing above the highest peaks. All living things on earth had died. The water covered the earth at this level for five months (Paul S. Taylor, 1). In time the water began to dry up. Eventually Noah was able to leave the ship and release all he had brought with him. From this point, evolution occurs.
"All the fountains of the great deep [were] broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened . . . And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased; . . . and the ark went upon the face of the waters."(Holy Bible, Genesis 7:11b, 17a, 18b). The flood was a catastrophic event that changed the earth in traumatic ways, but many people deny that this event ever took place. The main documentation of this occurrence is found in the Bible, but since many people refuse to believe that it is a valid source of history and has no weight in science, it cannot be used to say whether or not the earth was ever completely submerged in water. Therefore, science and fact must be the deciding elements in the discussion of the flood.
...as left of the Earth. After this destruction, the Earth was back to its beginnings with no living organisms. A person may similarly believe that God destroyed the universe, which began again as a condensed state and began to expand (the Big Bang Theory). Both of these similar beliefs seem to combine catastrophism, which involves the destruction of existing species of the time, and evolution. These beliefs do not contradict any scientific evidence or any of Darwin’s studies, yet they still hold true to the story of creation. One can certainly believe in God and scientific discoveries and processes if he or she believes that God does not interfere with natural processes but simply watches over the universe. It is certainly possible for a person to believe in God and in what the Bible is trying to communicate, literally or figuratively, yet still believe in evolution.
In conclusion, many ancient literature writers such as those of Genesis, Gilgamesh and Metamorphoses wrote their own detailed accounts of the Creation, flood, and fall. All three of the author's perspectives of the events are all distinctly characterized but, dramatically different. That fact in itself, the notion that we, the readers can trace hints that tie the three stories together, makes literature and the ways that we interpret it, amazing. I personally believe that the Genesis interpretation of all three the creation, the flood and the fall are all accurate and factual accounts of the event. I continually thank Christ for his redemption through His blood for my sin.
The Sumero-Babylonian version of the epic of Gilgamesh, after two and a half millennia of dormancy, was resurrected by British archaeologists in the nineteenth century. Amid the rubble of an Assyrian palace, the twelve clay tablets inscribed the adventures of the first hero of world literature – King Gilgamesh, whose oral folk tales go back to at least 3000 years before Christ (Harris 1). Tablet XI contains the story of the Flood. In this essay let us compare this flood account to the more recent Noah’s Flood account in Genesis of the Old Testament.
For centuries people have believed in Creationism which is the idea that the Earth, its inhabitants, and everything in the universe was created and governed by a supernatural power. According to Branch and Scott, the biggest influence on this idea is the Bible and more specifically the Book of Genesis which presents “creation ex nihilo (“from nothing”), a world flood, [and] a relatively recent inception of the Earth” (27). Branch and Scott are of course referring to the Judeo-Christian biblical creation stories of “Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Flood and Noah’s Ark” which, in the seventeenth-century Europe, were “generally considered to by literally true” (Park 24). From these stories the idea that except for the “great flood, the Earth and its inhabitants were pretty much the same now a...
...Creation/Flood accounts. It is important also to realize that the majority of this paper has dealt with the similarities and not many of the contrasts of the narrative accounts. Also, while there may be differences, there is no reason to think each is speaking of a different flood, but rather of the same flood, interpreted through each group’s “own theology and worldview” As we enter into our study of the Biblical Genesis account of the flood, this understanding of other literature at the time, helps us make sense of the authorial intent. I think it is clear after looking at the similarities that the author had a theological purpose rather than a scientific one. Many times we interpret this portion of Genesis haphazardly. If we spend a little time to get familiar with critical scholarship , our own hermaneutical method would prove more honest and compelling.
to the Christian belief in the flood that was sent down centuries ago to destroy
The flood story that is told in The Epic of Gilgamesh has the same principle as the story of Noah told in the book of Genesis in the Bible, but there are some major differences. In the epic, Utnapishtim is immortal and, although Noah was extremely old when he died, he wasn’t immortal. Utnapishtim was a human, but because he saved mankind, Enlil said, “Hitherto Utnapishtim has been a human, now Utnapishtim and his wife shall become like us gods.” (Gilgamesh 11.206-207) In the Biblical story, God told Noah that he was going to send a flood and asked him specifically to make the ark in order to save mankind. In Genesis 6:13-22, God tells Noah why he’s flooding the earth and exact instructions to build the ark. “13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all arou...
The second argument for a worldwide flood is its time, or duration, on the earth. From a careful study of the Genesis flood account, scholars believe that the flood, from start to finish, lasted 371 days. This period can be broken into two parts: prevailing (rising) and assuaging (subsiding). The prevailing of the flood waters lasted about twenty-one weeks. Most likely, the waters reached their peak in the first 40 days, during which “the widows of heaven were opened (Gen. 7:11),” and then maintained they height for another 110 days (7:4, 12, 24). After God sent a wind to stop the prevailing waters (8:1), the assuaging lasted about thirty-one weeks. In verses 2 -3 of Genesis chapter 8, the Bible says, “The fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were also stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained. And the waters receded continually from
This event was told in the Book of Genesis chapter 7 through 8. The length of the flood was 314 days, afterwards Noah remained in the ark for an additional 57 days until the earth was completely dry. Noah had three sons, their names were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Genesis’s tells us by stating this, “And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah fathered Ham, Shem, and Japheth.”.23 ". “Noah took along with himself, his wife, Emzara, the daughter of Rake'el, the daughter of his father's brother” 25. As there was no good man left on the earth except Noah, as God told Noah that this flood would destroy all humans and animals from the whole world. In His Holy words He said, “I (God) will bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under heaven; all that is in the earth shall
Noah’s Ark is a story in the Bible. This story can be found in Genesis 5:32-10:1. Noah is a follower of Christ. He followed what God said and he was obedient to Him. “Noah’s family survived with Noah, and Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark.” Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives were in the ark, so that means eight people were in the ark, and they stayed and listened to Noah instead of questioning him. In the ark, no human being was born during the flood.