Noah's Ark

letting the evil creatures and humans perish. God tells Noah before the flood to build an ark and bring onboard his family and multiple animals. Noah brings onboard his wife, his son, and his son’s wives. Along with his family, Noah brings onboard all species of animals in small amounts so that the world can rebuild itself. Then, the flood comes. When the flood comes from God, all living things except those in the ark perish. The rain lasts for 40 days and 40 nights, and it takes 150 days for…

that the preservation of the human race and other animal species was possible. In both myths the hero was asked to gather as many different species as possible to repopulate the Earth after the flood. They were also not the only humans to board the ark. The heroes were also blessed with an unnaturally long life, with Utnapishtim receiving immortality and Noah living nearly a thousand…

“When the European glaciers melted, the Mediterranean Sea overflowed with the force 200 times greater than that of Niagara Falls, converting the Black Sea from fresh to saltwater, meanwhile flooding the area”(Trimarchi). An Ark made in 8,000 B.C. could not survive the force of Niagara Falls due to a lack of materials and infrastructure, never mind 200 times that force. Another theory that has been tossed around is that of a meteor hitting the Earth, causing 600-foot high…

The creation story, along with many other stories of the bible are not clear black and white of what can be considered right and wrong. This grey area is not only present in the story of Noah and the ark but also in other accounts such as, the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars hold a belief that the story of Noah found in Genesis 6-9 and the Epic of Gilgamesh found in Israelite literature are accounts that have significant parallels. In the beginning of each story, the one deity or the gods…

what happened to them?Both men were given specific instructions to build a cube like boat, almost mirror images of one another, which had an ingenious specific design to where Collins explains “It would be almost impossible to tip over—even if the Ark were somehow tipped over 60°, it could still right itself”. Both took their families -although in Gilgamesh he took more than immediate family - and a certain amount of animals.both have extremely similar conclusions, showing that they both land…

Noah was a righteous man and strolled with God. Seeing that the earth was degenerate and loaded with savagery, God taught Noah to assemble an ark in which he, his sons, and their wives, together with male and female of all living creatures, would be spared from the waters. Noah entered the ark in his six hundredth year, and on the seventeenth day of the second month of that year "the fountains of the Great Deep burst separated and the floodgates of heaven tore open" and rain succumbed to forty…

GREAT MEN OF THE BIBLE 2 Great Men of the Bible There are many great men found men found throughout the Bible. Their stories range from walking with Jesus to betraying him. Two great men in particular, display the characteristics of trustworthiness and the ability to steadfast and obey the Lord and what he has commanded them to do. During the time when Moses was born, Pharaoh was the King of…

and the Ark and Aztec Flood In most ancient civilizations you would be able to find stories of Gods wiping out human existence to try again. a majority of these stories are used to explain why certain things in that civilization worked the way they did. These stories can also be used to show what kind of religious ideas that these early civilization had. By comparing and contrasting the Noah flood story with the Aztec it's a way to show the differences in the two societies. In Noah's Ark god is…

Noah began to fill his ark with animals of every species: one male, one female. In this story, rain continued to fall for forty days and nights. Once the rainfall ended, water covered the world for an additional 150 days. On the other hand, the flood that Utnapishtim was involved with was rather short in contrast to Noah’s. “‘For six days and nights the winds blew torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest…

he also releases a dove. The dove Noah releases first returns with good news, and on its second traveling returns to the ship with an olive leaf in its bill. (Genesis 8:4-14) Also signifying that it has reached land. Although Noah may have built the ark by himself, the similarities between the two stories are…