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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark is a vessel describes in Genesis chapters 6-9 of the Hebrew Bible. In the story, God instructs a man named Noah to build an ark to providing a save-haven for Noah, his family, and all species of animals. Once Noah and his fellow travelers are aboard the ark, God enacts a massive flood, destroying all other living things on the planet. The inhabitants of the ark go on to repopulate the world after the great flood.
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He felt safe inside the Ark, because he knew the Lord was with him.
What was the first thing noah did when he got off the ark?
Genesis 8:18-20
18 So Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. 19 All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds-everything that moves on the earth-came out of the ark, one kind after another. 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.
What did God tell Noah to cover the ark with?
(Genesis 6:14) . . .They were to make for themselves an ark out of wood of a resinous tree...and must cover it inside and out with TAR (bitumen), most likely found in the Low Plain of Sid′dim.(Genesis 14:10)
The same thing was done to the 'ark' that baby Moses was put into in the nile(Exodus 2:3) as a way of waterproofing the floating surface.
I was looking for a cartoon about Noahs Ark with loads of songs. I would have been about 4 or 5 in the early 80's....Anyway, The Last of the Red Hot Dragons is actually a cartoon about Noahs Ark...loads of songs - type it into Youtube - hope this helps
Why do many cultures have Noah's Ark- type stories?
Floods raise powerful emotions and memories of catostrophic floods are undoubtedly exaggerated with the telling. Ian Wilson (Before the Flood) says that on every continent there are peoples who have preserved world flood myths of some description in their folklore.
The Eskimos of Alaska's Norton Sound inlet, close to the Bering Strait, recall a flood legend that in ancient times water rose up from the ocean, rather than coming down from the sky - a clear reference to the end of the mini Ice Age, when the Bering Strait was opened:
" ... the earth was flooded, all but a very high mountain in the middle. The water came up from the sea and covered the whole land except the top of this mountain. Only a few animals escaped to the mountain and were saved; and a few people made a shift to survive by floating about in a boat and subsisting on the fish they caught till the water subsided."
Wilson believes that the flood myths prevalent around the ancient Near East were folk memories of the breaching of the Dardanelles, also at the end of the Younger Dryas, which flooded the rich low-lying land under what is now the Black Sea. Archaeological surveys have begun, with promising results.
Which peak did Noah's ark run aground on?
The ark came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat(Genesis 8:4) which are located in what is now eastern Turkey/Armenia, near the Iranian and Russian borders.
Where did Noah live when he built the ark?
Given most Biblical events take place in the middle east, probably the middle east!
On the other hand, there's no good evidence that the Ark was even built at all, so it's hard to say where it was built.
AnswerAs the Bible states in Genesis 8 v 4 the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. This is the only available clue as to the location of the Ark at the end of the flood.The Bible gives no indication at all as to where the Ark was built. Certainly the surface of the earth was drastically restructured by the flood event and so the pre-flood world would have little or no resemblance to the pre-flood world anyway.
AnswerThe ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat on the same day the waters began to recede. If all the mountains were covered then the ark could only come to rest on the highest mountain which would be Mt Ararat itself.There isa no indicatoon that the flood drastically altered the surface of the earth.
AnswerActually, the Ark was built in what is now modern day Baghdad, at the very spot where Sadam Hussein erected his statue. Thus, when American troops pulled down the statue, they fulfilled a prophecy that Christian warriors would tear down false gods. Charlton Heston proved that the Ark came to rest on the top of Mt. Ararafat (though it should be noted that he played Moses in the 10 Commandments, and not Noah!). It is hard for us to see evidence of the Great Flood but that is only because we are too close to earth to do so (just as it is hard for ants to see the patterns of their hills). But from space, as Christian astronaughts have pointed out, the many hidden lakes are visible, the remnants of a great flood that must have flooded the land, and then dried leaving these puddles behind (not really puddles: the lakes mentioned above!)AnswerWe need to separate fact from fiction here. In the story of the bible there is no place where it states the Arks origin. But as this is a story it really doesn't matter
Mt Arrarat references have to be taken with a pinch of salt. Firstly because modern scholars believe that current mount Arrarat was perhaps not the one mentioned in the Bible. Secondly, The mountain was not THE highest one, simply the highest in the region. If you believe the Earth was covreed with water then Everest at 29,000 feet has to be the real peak (If you believe the story Everest must have existed as water erodes and does not build mountains up)
Nobody has 'proven' the resting place of the Ark. There have been no comments from Christian astronauts. Either way you do not need them as the Earth has extremely detailed satellite mapping. The current mapping does not fit in the slightest with the proposition written above.
The place that people do sometimes point to on Arrarat is a formation of rocks that happens to be a rough chape of a boat. This is just a lucky formation of rocks - if you drop them all over the Earth as Nature does then some will look like a boat (how many times have you seen shapes in the clouds). There has been no wooden evidence found.
The story of the Ark is also counter to not one, but every scientif branch and fact we know. Cosmologists know the age of the Universe to be around 14.5 billion years old (BTW the sub-atomic particles in your body were around at the Big Bang so you could glaim to have been preset at the Big Bang).
Dendrochronolgy also points to a much older Earth. Radiological studues show the Earth as about 4.5 Billion years old.
My point is that not just one, but 20+ ways of measuring short medium and long term time all agree on these. None back up the biblical account in the slightest.
Some other thoughts for you. Noah took no fish. So what you say? Well, salt water fish wont survive in fresh water and visa versa. The large amount of fresh water would have killed pretty much all fish
Where were the insects? There are many more species of those than any other animal type and they will not survive without land.
There are too may ways to shoot down anybody who wishes to believe this as fact.
If you are religious then I ask... didn;t Jesus clearly show he jnew what a parable was? Could this not simply be a parable?
And finally for those Creationists out there I have a question. Which Creation? Genesis documents TWO creation stories that are quite different. The first creation is effectively ignored by the second which occurs just a few verses later.
What was the linear footage of the lumber used to build Noah's ark?
Although we know the dimensions of the ark there is no way we can calculate this for certainty, given that we do not know the make-up of the internal structure. For interest, and comparison, a Dutch carpenter has built a 1/3 scale model and intends to build a full scale model eventually, although space in ports will be a major obstacle. The attached link may give some clues.
What happened after Noah's Ark came to rest?
An non-believer in the Bible answered:
Nothing, the whole myth is nonsense. Unless all the animals and species lived within walking distance of Noah's boatbuilding yard.
Response:
The animals could have been heading to the ark long before Noah was even given the command to build it. Also, according to the theory of Pangea (all the continents existing together as one super-continent before drifting apart), it would have been possible for all living creatures to be in one spot and then move to other continents. Perhaps the flood set into motion the process of this happening.
If there was an ark, then it was built like a box and not like a ship.
When the rain came down, the water went up, and the Ark floated like cork. It did not flashed down the river and did not sail the sea. When the water came down, the ark landed flat on its bottom. It did not land on rocks and mountains, and did not brake apart and spilled the content.
According to the Bible - Genesis 8:
After the flood the earth was desolate and Noah and his 3 sons (and their wives) rebuilt civilization. Read all about it on genesis-8
Myth? I love the big bang theory Myth as well!
What medical problems would people have had on Noah's Ark?
How the animals walked into the ark of Noah Noah took them or they walked in by themselves how?
According to Genesis 7, they went in by themselves - Genesis is somewhat contradictory about how many went aboard (either 7 of clean animals [most of them] and 2 unclean or 2 of each). Either way, millions of animals (and presumably many thousands of non-marine plants) would have to have been accomodated (if it was true!).
How long did it rain when they were at the ark?
As I recall from Sunday School, it apparently rained for ' Forty days and forty nights ' .
Did unicorns live on Noah 's ark and swim and swim until they turned into narwhals?
No. Even if there was a Noah's ark, there is no reason to believe that unicorns (a mythical animal which does not exist) would have transformed into narwhals (a real animal that is common in the Arctic ocean).
We have biological evidence that leads to the conclusion the narwhals are relatives of the beluga whale. One tooth changed to grow so long that it would pierce the skin above the mouth and exit the other side as a long horn. It is from a beluga-whale-like-ancestor that narwhals descend; not unicorns.
Noah could not have literally heard God's voice if the biblical Flood did not really happen. So the first thing is to establish whether there ever was a biblical Flood. The story of Noah is so similar to the story of the story of Enlil, from the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, that it seems more probable that the biblical Flood had its origins in the earlier Sumerian myth. Moreover, scientists say they can find no evidence of a biblical flood event. It did not happen.
If we accept that Noah's Flood really did happen, what does the Bible tell us about whether Noah literally heard the voice of God? In Genesis 6:19-20, Noah is told to take two of every animal onto the Ark, while in Genesis 7:1 he is told to take two of every unclean animal, but seven of every clean animal. This clear contradiction does not reflect a record of God speaking to Noah in person; it reflects two similar versions of an ancient folk-story woven together to the point that can seem to be just the one account, but for the internal contradictions. There were two authors for these accounts, now known as the Priestly Source and the Yahwist, but they were clearly not reporting the literal words of God:
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.
What was the 'flood' called when God told Noah to build the ark?
Depending on the Bible translation being used, it is called 'floodwaters' or a 'flood of waters' or a 'great flood' or a 'deluge' (Genesis 6:17).
What is the persons name from noahs ark?
It was Noah as builder and 'captain' of the Ark. The passengers were Noah's wife, his three sons and their wives. unnamed.
On what day did the people come out of Noah's Ark?
Noah knew when to come out of the ark because he sent a dove out of the ark and if the dove returned Noah knew that it had no place to land so it had to come back to the ark. Finally the dove did not return so he knew the earth's waters had receded.
What were the unclean animals on noahs ark?
Any animal that a Jew is forbidden to eat, especially pigs. For a full description see Leviticus chapter 11.
