Lower figure is Matthew Poole’s 1669 drawing of the Ark in water.
Figures and captions from CMI article.
Lower figure is Matthew Poole’s 1669 drawing of the Ark in water.
Figures and captions from CMI article.
The Ark Encounter has a whole section of museum dedicated to the theme of “cartoonifying” the biblical account.
>Lower figure is Matthew Poole’s 1669 drawing of the Ark in water.
That boat won’t float for long.
I can’t imagine how difficult it would have been to lay the keel on that vessel. No wonder it took a hundred years to build.
The rampant, flippant, sophomoric humor that has found a permanent home behind most pulpits is one example. Seriousness is derided, a constant painted-on smile is the standard (look up Chuck Swindol for an example.)
I somehow think that Jesus seldom smiled, the weight of his mission so pressed upon Him.
Honestly does it really matter what it looks like?
No rock people??? I saw that in a movie.
And there is a reasonable basis to accept the size and configuration description of the Ark in the Word. Among other things, there is an artifact on Mt. Ararat that suggests confirmation.
But there are other Flood issues that are significant in the modern era as well as Ark issues.
The Ancients; not the first and second Millennium BC ancients but the historic tablets that describe an even earlier set of events much like the description in the Old Testament, is of a second Ark artifact, several hundred miles South of Mt. Ararat of an even greater antiquity.
For those who study the Bible, there is no doubt that the Old Testament contains a precise time line all the way back to Adam and the Garden--Bishop Usher placed the Adam date at 4004 BC; Faulstich and the IBM computer jocks working with Tuckermans analysis place Adam at 4000 BC. In both cases they put the flood of Noah at about 2344 BC.
Plato reports on Solon's conversation with the Egyptian priests in which he was told that his history (Greek) included only a single worldwide flood event--the Egyptian records include four such events. Native American legend includes a fourth event around 15400 BC.
Gilgamesh's epic includes a third event around 11000 BC (because Ziustrada is about 7000 years old when he is telling Gilgamesh his story in the third or fourth millennium BC).
Ballard's work in the Dead Sea area fixes a second event in the 6700BC period.
The Ice build up on the South Pole tends to be less stable as it built up in the very cold periods and thus subject to disruptions by major geologic and Astrologic events.
So when we look at these historical events with a diminishing ability to narrow the dates, we can see a pattern that appears to reflect a cyclical flood condition about every 4400 years, +/-. Probably a little less than 4400 years.
So when Jesus Christ describes the period of His return as being "as it was in the days of Noe"; we may be able to look at the probable period of expectation as including this cyclical class of event.
In the warming period we are presently seeing, we can reasonably expect that, as God tells us, flooding on a global scale is not going to be an agent after the event of Noah--because there isn't going to be an ice build up condition that fits the planetary alignment again--the destruction by fire ending the Millennial Kingdom will occur before the sixth cycle.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
http://www.astirinch.com/creation/dna-proof-of-noahs-flood/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vast-hidden-ocean-found-under-chinese-desert-1513423
What’s a cubit?
Poor butthurt Delugists, if they only realized how far back the conspiracy ran!
