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About years after He created the earth, God covered it with a great Flood. Every person, bird, and land animal drowned, except those on the ark.
The story, while true, also points to a greater truth — the Ark God offers us. The Lord told Noah to build a 3-story wooden ark with rooms inside and to coat it with pitch. Pitch is a black, sticky waterproofing material that can be made from pine trees. The ark sounds more like a black barge than a tan teacup. God also told Noah to store on the ark portions of every kind of food, enough for his family and two of each kind of animal.
He made clear that the only way to survive the coming Flood was to be on the ark. When the ark was completed and all were aboard, God shut them in. Over a year after Noah boarded the ark, the waters finally went down enough for him to step out onto dry land. He built an altar in worship to the God who had saved him, and the Lord promised never again to destroy the earth with water Genesis God is holy — perfect and pure, set apart from anything sinful.
Sin separates us from the Lord because He cannot embrace wickedness. He is just — He always does the right thing — and He cannot turn a blind eye to sin. If He picked and chose when He would tolerate evil and who He would allow to sin, He would be unjust and unpredictable. But the Lord hates all sin and loves all people.
Grieved that the people He had made were so full of wickedness and violence, God wiped the slate clean by destroying every living thing not on the ark Genesis We then might wonder if God made a mistake when He created the world. Ephesians and 2 Timothy are two of the many verses that tell us that our Lord knew what He was doing.
He knew before He even created the planet that every human who walked on it would be full of selfishness and pride. During the Flood , he spared humanity from total destruction, knowing full well that He would one day sacrifice His Son to save us again. When the Lord rained burning sulfur on Sodom, a city full of arrogant, greedy women and men eager to rape anyone they could get their hands on He spared a believer named Lot.
Among all the quarreling, backstabbing, greedy humans, Noah must have stood out like a sore thumb. Genesis says he was a good man who had a good relationship with God. In His mercy, the Lord chose to spare Noah and his wife and his sons and their wives. He did so not because Noah and his family were perfect, but because they believed Him.
There is good scriptural and historical evidence that the Flood story is an interpretation of an actual historical event retold in the rhetoric and theology of ancient Israel.
The Genesis account is one of many stories of catastrophic floods in the ancient world, including the Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh, which bears striking similarities to the story of the Flood. The Genesis Flood story contains many literary clues that its writers and original audience were not intended to narrate an actual series of events.
These are not meant to challenge readers to figure out the practicality of such descriptions, but rather they are important clues that we are dealing with a theological story rather than ancient journalism.
There are other clues that the writers are not intending to relate a literal series of events. Biblical scholars almost universally see these chapters as having a different purpose than the rest of the book of Genesis. The primeval narratives cover a huge swath of cosmic history and are highly figurative in their language.
While they speak of real events such as the creation of the universe and the special calling of humankind , they do so in rhetorical and theological ways that have more to do with the purposes of the story than a plain narration of facts.
Not only do we need to read the Flood story through the lens of ancient literature, but also ancient cosmology. Because the ancient Israelites like all people in the ancient Near East lacked telescopes, satellites, and other modern scientific equipment, they pictured the universe as it appeared to everyday observation.
Ancient Near Eastern people thought that rain comes from an ocean above the sky which explains why the sky is blue , and that this ocean wraps all the way around the earth which explains why deep wells always hit water.
The Flood narrative relies on this same ancient understanding of the world. Modern people read the Flood story with a completely different perspective on the shape of the Earth and universe. Similarly, any speculation about the water sources or ark buoyancy or geologic effects or post-Flood animal migrations or similar questions is missing the point of the story. To some, the view outlined here of the Flood account denies the divine inspiration of the text and instead makes the story entirely a human invention.
God did not give the ancient Israelites scientific data, nor did he give the Israelites new genres of literature. Join us to receive the latest articles, podcasts, videos, and more, and help us show how science and faith work hand in hand. The seven-day pattern in Genesis 1 is a literary device that serves the theological purposes of the author, rather than revealing information about the chronology of natural history.
If you open your window widely, you will receive a great total light intensity which will shine to all corners of your house the body and no darkness will be found in you because light cannot dwell with darkness.
After light shines in the whole house body , it is when it starts to radiate to others through you. You cannot radiate light preach or teach the word without you having enough light in yourself. Sometimes the light inside becomes so little that it is insignificant. The more you allow the word in you the more illuminated you became, the more Christ-like Christian you be. We are in this time were two spirits are moving at the same time; the evil spirit and the Holy Spirit.
The spirit of God is moving in the face of earth looking for a place to rest. Also the raven evil spirit is moving in the face of earth feeding on everyone who is not of the Holy Spirit. Saturday, November 13, Contact About.
Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Christian Truth Center. The Old Testament is a figurative of the New Testament. A Raven Raven is an evil bird which feeds on flesh and in the bible it is a symbol of the evil spirit Satan. In verse 7 , it is stated that the raven went to and fro. A Dove Gen Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground.
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