GENESIS 7

This next chapter is the continuation of the story of Noah and his ark and where one has to suspend ones disbelief to accept the story as true and maintain that this is one of the greatest pieces of evidence for the existence of god.  Lets see shall we?

GENESIS 71 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.

2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate,

3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.

4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

Because Noah didn't take part in all the debauchery, raping and murder, god found him to be righteous (read, religious) and therefore was privileged enough to be the one that captained the boat; I'm not sure that getting burdened with the massive job of getting a sample of every kind of animal in the world is a good thing! Being cooped up on a wooden ship full of animals for forty days and nights doesn't exactly sound like a holiday either but I guess it's better than drowning.

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.

7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

8 Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground,

9 male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah.

10 And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.

OK, so Noah didn't have to go looking for the animals as they came to him which was lucky for Noah as he was getting rather old and he had just built an ark after all. It does beg the question, how did all those animals get there?

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

12 And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.

13 On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark.

14 They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings.

15 Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark.

16 The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.

Now we know where all the water came from at least, from the springs and the heavens. Here I was thinking there may not be enough water to flood the earth, clearly I was wrong. There is obviously enough water below the ground and in the clouds to kill everything on the face of the earth. He's got animals and birds on the ark, what about the fish? I guess the fish can swim and god would make them able to live in a completely different salinity.

17 For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

18 The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

19 They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered.

20 The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits.

21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind.

22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died.

23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

24 The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

As there are far too many points to cover here I will dedicate a whole blog entry to the flood and all it's fallacious claims, so for now I'll just let this chapter sink in...

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