Posted on 04/27/2010 8:28:30 AM PDT by evets
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old — around the same time the ark was said to be afloat.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
He said the structure contained several compartments, some with wooden beams, that they believe were used to house animals.
The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds none have ever been found above 11,000ft in the vicinity, Yeung said.
Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archaeological dig is conducted.
The biblical story says that God decided to flood the Earth after seeing how corrupt it was.
He then told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal species.
After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a mountain.
Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region, is where the ark and her inhabitants ran aground.
How long are one of God’s days?
Well... each "day" has an evening and a morning. That might give you one clue ... LOL ...
Another clue is that God said that he created the heavens and the earth in six days and rested on the seventh, to give it as a pattern for man -- in that it should work six days and rest on the 7th, too...
It would be a sorry "pattern" that God gave if it was "work for 6 times 1,000 years" and rest on the 7th 1,000 years -- doncha know ... LOL ... [or whatever imaginary length that some people give to it].
Another thing, more "technical" though -- is that the text itself -- using the words as they are in the original language, it can mean nothing else -- other than -- six regular and ordinary days -- and even the critics, who don't believe that this "really happened" (i.e., "creation") -- they themselves admit readily that this is "exactly what the text itself means".
So, all you can do -- there -- is say, "this is what the text actually means -- but I don't believe the text!".
That's what you're really saying ... :-)
Um, I don’t think a parable is a lie.
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Lot’s of debate out there. I’m more inclined the Ark rests in Iran or Arabia.
After the flood, Noah’s descendants ultimately came to establish Babel (later Babylon) they came “from the east”:
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.” -Genesis 11:1,2
did they find any ski lifts encased in ice? how were the lift lines back then?
I knew what the other poster meant. I thought it was funny that one poster asked this:
What’s a cubit? and got the answer “One of the funniest comedy albums of all times”.
It looked like he meant that a cubit was one....
Never mind. ;)
I don't see why - you forget that the Koran includes the story of Noah along with much of the old testament.
I can only attribute my momentary brain freeze to nearing the end of the school year, when nearly all teachers are drained and staggering to the finish line. Yeah, you're spot on correct AND the Koran even includes mention of Jesus Christ as a wonderful teacher and prophet. Just not Divine in any way. Still the fringe extreme Islamic interests in the Turkish government will have a vested reason to deter or reject any INFIDEL expedition from investigating the Ark.
If everything of a Christian or Jewish origin were removed from Islam, there would be little left. The general content of the lives of the patriarchs and prophets and Mary and Jesus is retained to provide the religious and historical context without which Islam’s claims would be meaningless. But everything having to do with what both the Jews and the Christians assert to be the central meaning of their stories is ignored, excised, or explained away. This is done because if what the writers of the Bible say the relationship of God to the Jewish people means for those living in that region and what the deity and resurrection of Jesus means for the world is true, then what Islam is claiming for itself cannot possibly be true.
INDEED.
THX.
Not very likely.
1. Mountain’s a poor place to grow crops.
2. Unlikely there was a ready water source at that time.
3. I suspect God told Noah to get off the Mountain and get on with his life.
4. I’ve long expected it to be found in the END TIMES. Should be interesting to see how the globalists try and spin the story.
For the ark to be found it would increase man’s faith and thats not in the nwo plan so they hide the truth about this as long as they can
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That’s what I’ve thought for decades.
However, I’ve long thought that God would overrule them at some point in the END TIMES. Perhaps this is that time.
There had never been rain until Noah’s time.
One theory is that there was a water vapor canopy in the upper atmospher that contained a huge amount of water. Until God directed it to rain down.
& That that water canopy helped protect life from cosmic rays and lengthened their lifespans back then.
IIRC.
Skeptics have been suggesting mundane explanations for Biblical miracles for a lot longer than a 100 years.
Relentlessly they’ve been proven wrong over and over again.
WELL PUT.
THX THX
More than plausible.
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