Hi Percy,
Percy writes:
Your problem is a lack of faith in your God's power and majesty.
I don't have a problem with what God can do.
He could have caused the dry land to become wet land again just as easily as He caused the water to gather together in one place and allow the dry land to appear. But the text does not say He did it that way.
The land mass at the time of the flood could have been as it is today with Mt Everest to be covered and God would have had no problem covering it with water. He could have raised the sea bottom and flooded the mountain tops, or He could have caused the dry land to become wet land again but the text does not say that.
The text teaches that the land mass whatever shape it was in in Genesis 1:10 when He called it Earth was covered by water that fell in the form of rain and water that came from the fountains of the deep. That water covered the highest land mass by 15
meters ABE cubits.
Percy writes:
A God who can create an entire universe in six days can do anything.
And why do you think God created the entire universe in six days?
You are refering to the 7 days of Moses found in Genesis 1:2 - 2:3.
Genesis 1:1 says the heavens and the Earth existed prior to Genesis 1:2.
Genesis 2:4 says in the day the Lord God created the Earth and the heavens.
My God created the universe and Earth in one day not six.
Percy writes:
The God of the universe could do everything you say even if the continents were scattered throughout the cosmos.
Yes my God could do that.
He could also have thousands of universes and Earths with people inhabiting them if He so desires.
He just did not tell us about them as we don't need to know that information.
So what ever the shape of the land mass at Genesis 1:10 called Earth, it was all connected as to allow the people to migrate to the separate parts of the land after God confounded their language and the quit building the tower to heaven because they could no longer understand each other.
Mankind became wicked and God decided to start over and Noah found grace in the eyes of God.
Grace is unmerited favor. No one deserves it and can only obtain it by the grace being bestowed upon them.
So God bestowed His grace upon Noah and told him to build an ark as the world was going to be flooded.
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6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Since Noah found grace in the eyes of God he was told how to escape the flood that was going to come.
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6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
God told Noah He was going to destroy mankind with the Earth.
So Noah was instructed to build an ark of gopher wood and he was to make rooms in it and pitch it within and without with pitch. Pitch was a tar product.
God gives Noah directions as to how to build the ark. He was to set a door in the side and place a window at the top. There was to be lower second and third stories below the door in the side. So the door was in the side on the forth floor which was 46.875 feet from the bottom. I am using the cubit of Sir Isaac Newton of 25 inches which was called the Holy cubit.
Using Newton's Holy cubit the ark would have been 625 feet long, 104.16 feet wide, and 61.625 feet high.
The ark could have had a draft of 44 feet without any problem.
Everytime the ark is mentioned here at EvC it is usually refering to an ocean going boat. Well the ark was not a boat.
The ark was built as a rectangle with a flat bottom according to the instructions I have read.
Everybody here argues the ark would have colapsed from the exterior water pressure on the vessel.
Nobody reads the verse where Noah was told to build rooms inside the ark.
The ark would have been built with partion walls from side to side with floors just like you find in the larges wood hotel in existence today.
So it would have been braced from end to end and side to side as well as from floor to floor.
There would have been no problem with the structure of the ark.
Next objection there was not enough room to house the animals.
I have asked before and will ask again how much floor space would have been required to house the animals.
Take into consideration God was going to supply the animals that was to be transported and therefore would have probably supplied young ones that would have been small.
The last time I drew a ark for bluejay I was able to put 18 acres of storage space in the ark building the rooms on the four floors without any problems. I could make the rooms smaller for specific animals and could get at least 10 acres more storage room if it was required.
Now if someone would tell me exactly how much room is required I would see what I can produce.
There would be 4,011,787.5 cubic feet in the ark.
After 120 years the ark was completed.
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6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Mankind had 120 years prior to the flood.
At which time the ark was finished and ready.
Noah was told to gather of all food that was eaten for the trip. He was not told how much to gather. Whatever he gathered was enough.
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6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Noah was not told to round up any animals for the trip.
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7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
So when Noah was in the ark the animals came into the ark, as God had commanded.
Some things of note about the ark. There was no preprations made by Noah for waste materials as that apparantly was not his job.
Noah was told how to build the ark and to gather food for the journey.
When the ark was finished and the time for the flood to begin Noah was told to go into the ark, with his family.
When all cargo was aboard God shut the door.
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7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Whenever my God seals something it is protected until He unseals it.
The rain began and the fountains of the deep opened up.
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7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
The water increased and covered the dry earth causing all air breathing creatures to perish.
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7:22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Wherever dry land existed it became wet land and everything perished.
The water prevailed upon the Earth 150 days and then began to assuage.
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7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.
After another 150 days the water was abated.
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8:3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Finally Noah opened the roof and looked and the Earth was dry.
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8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Then God told Noah to go forth and he and those with him did.
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8:15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
8:16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.
8:17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
Noah was told to go forth and replenish the earth. The same Hebrew word מלא used here was used in Genesis 1:28 and translated replenish as that is what was necessary as the Earth had been populated before the flood.
Now there are those who say that boat won't float.
By my caculations it should draw at least 44 feet of water.
But according to the text the draft was 0 feet.
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7:18 And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.
The ark was on the surface of the water. Scientifically impossible.
But not a problem for my God.
Now if you or anyone else believes the Bible text says something else present it.
God Bless,
Edited by ICANT, : Replace meters with the proper measurment of cubits.
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