Was Noah and the great flood real?

Answer 1

No. The flood described in The Bible is allegorical, meant to illustrate moral lessons rather than to depict some actual event.

Another Answer:

Yes, Jesus Himself, confirmed it to be an actual event:

Matthew 24:38-39New King James Version (NKJV)

38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

Answer 2

For those who believe that the Bible is infallible, Noah's Ark is true. However, the biblical story of Noah's Ark is not true as told.

Ian Wilson (Before the Flood) believes that this story and some even older flood stories, such as in the Epic of Gilgamesh, are based on a true event. Around 5,200 BCE, rising sea levels caused the Mediterranean Sea to break through the Bosporus land-bridge and inundate the area that is now the Black Sea. He has researched archaeological finds in the area and migration patterns that followed this terrifying event and believes that stories of survival entered folk legend, to be passed down to us as the story of Noah's Ark and the flood of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

In fact there are actually two slightly different stories in the Bible, so cleverly woven together as to appear just one, slightly complicated story. When Genesis was being redacted, the followers of each story were not willing to give up their special story, so both were included. One clear example of the doublets is in Genesis 6:19-20, where Noah is told to take two of every animal onto the Ark, and in Genesis 7:1, where he is told to take two of every unclean animal, but seven of every clean animal. Similarly, one story has the flood subsiding in just forty days, while the other says that it lasted one year.

The two different authors of the biblical stories of Noah are called the Priestly source and the Yahwist. The verses attributed to the Priestly author are: Genesis 6:9-22, 7:6, 7:8-9, 7:11, 7:13-16a, 7:18-21, 7:24, 8:1-2a, 8:3b-5, 8:7, 8:13a, 8:14-19, 9:1-17. The verses attributed to the Yahwist are: Genesis 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 7:7, 7:10, 7:12, 7:16b-17, 7:22-23, 8:2b-3a, 8:6, 8:8-12, 8:13b, 8:20-22.

Answer 3

The story of Noah and the flood is an allegory. It was never intended as a scientific or historical treatise of some actual event.

Answer 4

That's a most controversial subject, but I don't think it was, no.

Answer 5

Another answer from our community: Yes indeed the story is a true one.

Noah is true and he did build the ark and he did put a male and female of every animal.

Answer 6

yup