Posted on 11/22/2022 2:38:16 PM PST by nickcarraway
Noah’s Ark is among the best known and most captivating of all Old Testament stories: After creating humans, God became so displeased with them that he struck Earth with an all-encompassing flood to wipe them out—with one noteworthy (and seaworthy) exception: the biblical patriarch and his family, accompanied by pairs of each of the planet’s animals, who rode out the deluge in an enormous wooden vessel.
For people who accept the religious text as a historically accurate account of actual events, the hunt for archaeological evidence of the Ark is equally captivating, inspiring some intrepid faithful to comb the slopes of Armenia’s Mt. Ararat and beyond for traces of the wooden vessel.
In 1876, for example, British attorney and politician James Bryce climbed Mount Ararat, where Biblical accounts say the Ark came to rest, and claimed a piece of wood that “suits all the requirements of the case” was in fact a piece of the vessel. More modern Ark “discoveries” take place on a regular basis, from an optometrist’s report he’d seen it in a rock formation above the mountain in the 1940s to a claim Evangelical pastors had found petrified wood on the peak in the early 2000s.
But searches for the Ark draw everything from exasperation to disdain from academic archaeologists and biblical scholars. “No legitimate archaeologist does this,” says National Geographic Explorer Jodi Magness, an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
“Archaeology is not treasure hunting,” she adds. “It’s not about finding a specific object. It’s a science where we come up with research questions that we hope to answer by excavation.”
Flood or fiction?
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
‘The Sign of Jonah’
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Don’t Walk.
RUN !
“Noah was also the inspiration for McDonald’s Golden Arcs.”
Seriously?
If true, not a bad idea.
Here’s a question for ya....
If Noah and his family were of one race of people.
How in the heck do we have so many different races today?
It’s the one next to Arch Stanton.
When I was little my mom and grandma would tell me the stories of Noah and of Jonah — both quite amazing to me. But I couldn’t help being confused when I was also told about the French maid who saved France from England back in the day.
I knew people had first and last names, so I thought Noah’s last name was “Zark” and Jonah’s las name was “Vark”. True story, FWIW.
But there’s no name there.
Ron Wyatt discovered the location of the Ark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIpvIVLQ2Dk
OH I do read my Bible daily... sometimes more than once a day. Going through it right now...
Yes Jesus taught much of His truth in parables....but Noah lived.. and yes there WAS a FLOOD.That is history.
I don’t deny there was a worldwide flood. I just like to converse with the heathens.
The Noah story in the Bible would then be true as to there having been a flood, not factually accurate as to Noah, but morally true as to Man's relationship with God.
The beautiful lovely rainbow is God’s, and is ours to enjoy!
The LGBT creeps stole the rainbow!!!!
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sad.... I'm a deplorable pretzel! Not ashamed of it either.
It describes glacial melting that built up two very large lakes in Southern Canada and Northern USA - Lake Agassiz, and Lake Ojibway. Ice dams broke, and the lakes emptied nearly immediately. Wikipedia states that it resulted in 10-13 FEET of permanent ocean level increase.
And I like to converse with the daft.
The pride flag has six colors.
A real rainbow has seven.
Explorer Jodi Magness...
an archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, of modern searches for evidence of Noah.
Dumb dame doesn't even know how to spell "Jedi"...
A close Kurdish friend of mine in N. Syria said Noah’s arc is in high mountains in what is now Turkey. And that people in that region say they are decendants of Noah. (She was well informed)
Hundreds of thousands of Kurdish Jews were removed from Iraq, N. Syria, Iran and Turkey. Many are said to have evacuated to Israel.
Noah’’s ark was already discovered by Ron Wyatt.
This is related to my previous comment to you:
How Kurdish Jews made their way to Jerusalem, shocked Herzl, began to thrive (Jul 11, 2020)
I intended to attach it before but failed insert it.
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