What would the Discovery of Noah's Ark do?

BobRyan · May 10, 2003

quote:Helen -
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The Bible not only clearly indicates it was world-wide,
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Galation
Perhaps you could show us where it says that. The notion that "the land" means "all the world" is not supported by Scripture.
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This is the "easy part".

Genesis 6
11 Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.<BR>
13 Then God said to Noah, "" The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 7
2 "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female;
3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

4 "For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."
5 Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him.
6 Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

17 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth.
18 The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.
19 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.
20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind;
22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
23 Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth;
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And of course when modern skeptics cast doubt on this - it not only undermines God's Word but also the Gospel and the NT author's.

2Peter 3 -
4 and saying, "" Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.''
5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
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And so obviously (again) the NT authors SHOW that a literal understanding of the text is the Bible-believing Christian's only choice.

In Christ,

Bob

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