Yes, it rained before the flood. How should we understand Gen 2:4-3:24? There are several indications in the text that the passage is not a literal historical account: (1) No shrub had grown up when Adam was formed (Gen 2:5). But in Gen 1:12-13 plants were described as been created on the third day, three [...]
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This is a difficult question because there is no archaeological or geological evidence that can be used to date the Flood, and the Bible provides very little chronological information prior to Abraham. Abraham is usually dated at about 2000 BC. In my book, The Times: a Chronology of the Bible, I argue for 1946BC as [...]
Noah did not take every species of animal on board the Ark. Animals designated using the Hebrew words basar, behema, hayya, nephesh, op, remes, and sippor are used to describe the animals which were taken aboard (the common theme is land based oxygen breathing animals with blood).[1] Animals designated using the Hebrew words sheres and [...]
Just before the Flood, we read The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:4) Then, many years later: [...]
The phrase ‘sons of God’ refers to faithful people in the following verses (among others): “You are the sons of the Lord your God.” (Deuteronomy 14:1) In Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. (Galatians 3:26) We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you [...]
The relevant verses are given below. And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female. Of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing [...]
There are two parts to this. First, it was God who shut the door of the ark: And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him [Noah]. And the LORD shut him in. (Genesis 7:16) But this did take place seven days before the rain started: And [...]
No. Dinosaurs are never mentioned in the Bible, and there is overwhelming scientific evidence that dinosaurs died out long before human beings were created. So dinosaurs could not have been on the ark.
Noah’s obedience showed that he: would do what he was told by God – even if the instructions may have seemed silly to us (Genesis 6:22). was faithful to complete a very big job (Genesis 7:16). valued God’s opinion more than everybody else’s opinion (Genesis 6:9). Interesting aside: In building the ark Noah condemned the [...]
This question refers to two verses: For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment. (2 Peter 2:4) And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, [...]
