Posted on 12/16/2013 10:52:52 AM PST by Theoria
Reeds...float....ping
Noah’s Ark is a story to scare followers
Kon Tiki!!!
I will stick with the detailed instructions described in the Book that God gave to us.
Genesis 6:14-16 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
Ya....everyone knows there are no consequences for their behavior!
So, you’re going with the “we descended from apes” thing?
“Noah’s Ark is a story to scare followers”
Never scared me. Never scared anyone that I know of. Maybe you scare easy?
...and yet every major culture has a Flood myth.
Like it was a common part of everyone's oral tradition or something.
Good point,
Thanks,
el cid.
why get caught chasing down a dream?
Or, Noah’s Coracle Was a Massive Double-Decker Ark.
I love how some people still try to pawn off the flood as a mere story, an allegory. If the flood was a fable then why is there fossilized evidence of sea life all along the top of the Himalayas, including at the Mt. Everest? Why have marine life, such as entire whale skeletons been uncovered in the middle of the desert?
There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.
What's a cubit?
And it worked. In those days "Noah moved with fear in preparing the ark" and those who shinned on the story drowned.
Odd that over 100 cultures scattered throughout the World (Australia, the South Pacific, North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, etc) have a similar story: Mankind wiped out due to a flood, with only a handful of people surviving on a boat/ark/log.
It is a story based on fact. And given that the promise after-wards was that the world would never again be destroyed in a Flood (Genesis 8:21b And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done)-- what is the 'scare' aspect?
'Hell' is the story that you may have wanted to reference as a scare tactic. In this case, reasonably based fear (e.g., 'I am afraid to jump in that blazing fire. It might hurt a bit').
Length between a man’s bird finger and his elbow
Does it matter?
Do you plan on building an Ark? Our Ark is the Lord Jesus Christ -- you need to be in Him if you want to be safe.
Most people estimate a cubit at one and half feet - but no one knows for sure.
Classic Bill Cosby. :-)
How long can you tread water?
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