Noah's Ark
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I think what we are missing here are a couple of three things. First, is there anything impossible for GOD. God can do anything He pleases. He speaks and dry land appears. He forms and animals and humans are made. If we look at God from a human perspective, meaning with our own intellect and understanding it seems impossible. There are many such things in the bible. Even Moses said to the Lord, even of we kill all of our livestock, it would not this multitude for one day. The Lord answered, do you not think that I can prepare a table in the wilderness. He feed them for 40 years. There is nothing impossible for God.
Secondly, We see in this account, That God had determined to destroy humanity. Yet, He found Noah faithful and provided an escape for him and his family. Also, the bible says, that the whole creation yearns for redemption. So he even provided escape for His innocent creation.
Thirdly, what was the ark made of. Wood. Any time we see wood in the OT, it is symbolic of the work of Christ. Cursed is a man who hangs on a tree. What did Moses staff turn into and with what did he strike the rock with from which water came forth in the desert. When they were tormented by fiery serpents, what did theylook upon to be healed, a snake on a pole ( Christ). When Elijah was building a school for the prophets and the young one lost the axe head in the river, and said als master for it was borrowed ( that's a debt he could not pay). Elijah said, throw the hanlde in the river (wood) and the axe head did float.
It is mainly about Christ. However the account is true, if we believe that God can move mountains in a stroke.
May be some typo's but that's my thoughts.
Secondly, We see in this account, That God had determined to destroy humanity. Yet, He found Noah faithful and provided an escape for him and his family. Also, the bible says, that the whole creation yearns for redemption. So he even provided escape for His innocent creation.
Thirdly, what was the ark made of. Wood. Any time we see wood in the OT, it is symbolic of the work of Christ. Cursed is a man who hangs on a tree. What did Moses staff turn into and with what did he strike the rock with from which water came forth in the desert. When they were tormented by fiery serpents, what did theylook upon to be healed, a snake on a pole ( Christ). When Elijah was building a school for the prophets and the young one lost the axe head in the river, and said als master for it was borrowed ( that's a debt he could not pay). Elijah said, throw the hanlde in the river (wood) and the axe head did float.
It is mainly about Christ. However the account is true, if we believe that God can move mountains in a stroke.
May be some typo's but that's my thoughts.
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the story of noah's flood is literally true...there is nothing in the account to indicate that it is any kind of parable...and the new testament refers back to the flood as real history...
scientifically speaking the flood explains many things...including the earth's present geology and the fossil record and the ice age and the distribution of animals on the earth...and it explains them much better than the paradigm of evolution and millions of years...
scientifically speaking the flood explains many things...including the earth's present geology and the fossil record and the ice age and the distribution of animals on the earth...and it explains them much better than the paradigm of evolution and millions of years...
It is a sign of our western thinking, sometimes called Greek thinking or Hellenistic thinking that makes us need to question all things, to find out why and how. In many ways it is good thinling. Without this approach it would be very difficult to invent such as the gasoline motor, etc.
It really can't be applied to Noah's ark. It is like applying this kind of thinking to deciding how the world was created. With our human minds we just aren't going to be able to put it in our time with our capablities. God told us what we need to know, that God created it, is in charge, and created us. the kind of thinking that works to understand about this is like the thinking of the ancient Hebrews. It is good thinking, too. I have older people who I teach to use the computer use this kind of thinking. With this kind of thinking you learn the facts of something, and when you question, you question how to apply those facts to your life and how you fit your life into the facts.
It is the same with Noah's ark. God did it, God tells us why. It is enough.
It really can't be applied to Noah's ark. It is like applying this kind of thinking to deciding how the world was created. With our human minds we just aren't going to be able to put it in our time with our capablities. God told us what we need to know, that God created it, is in charge, and created us. the kind of thinking that works to understand about this is like the thinking of the ancient Hebrews. It is good thinking, too. I have older people who I teach to use the computer use this kind of thinking. With this kind of thinking you learn the facts of something, and when you question, you question how to apply those facts to your life and how you fit your life into the facts.
It is the same with Noah's ark. God did it, God tells us why. It is enough.