Questions tagged [flood-of-noah]

The great flood recorded in the Genesis which Noah survived by building an Ark.

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How could animals have gotten all around the world after the flood?

I am a Christian, but this question has been troubling me for a long time. If all the world's animals dispersed from Mt. Ararat, it would stand to reason that there should be no animals in the Americas today. This cannot be explained by plate…
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Why did God create the great flood?

Why did God create the great flood to wipe the entire human race including unborn children and babies that are probably innocent, and also other species that are innocent? He can re-create the whole universe and fix his errors of the first creation…
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Where did all the water come from and go during the flood?

The Bible states that the waters went 15 cubits or 22.5 feet above the highest mountain during the flood. Genesis 7:20 KJV Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. Mount Everest is 29,029 feet high so the…
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Referencing a Biblical narrative for a piece fiction I am writing?

I have a fiction where I need to reference why the great flood in Noah's day and when man turned back to evil after the flood. Is it legal to reference a Bible story?
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How do we explain the flood happening on 2348 BC with Pyramid and Chinese that's been around long before that?

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/37222/are-there-continuous-lines-of-cultural-records-throughout-the-period-of-the-bibl According to calculations, the flood must have happened on 2348 BC more or…
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Animals eating animals - Noah

I have a question, its bothering me. Noah saved all the animals from the flood, when the flood was over Noah released the animals as well including lions tigers and other now known to be meat eaters. If lions or tigers started eating other animals…
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The flood and living organisms

If the flood according to the book of Genesis cover the whole earth, then where are the various varieties of birds, insects and mammals from? Obviously they weren't all in the ark. So did God create another or what exactly?
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Have Archaeologists recovered pieces of Noah's Ark?

I was just wondering: Have Archaeologists recovered pieces of Noah's Ark? And did the Bible tell them where to look?
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