Noah's Ark Thesis

the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah 's story tells us that human beings have an

In “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark”, Gary Blackwood demonstrates the value of education and how the narrators’ point of view regarding his family’s lack of education changes over the course of the story. This story could demonstrate the story of Noah’s Ark, from the Bible. At the beginning of the story, the author demonstrates the family’s lack of education and how the people in his community thought that his father didn’t know what he was doing. By the end of the story, the narrators’ perspective of his family’s lack of education has changed.

Throughout Genesis 1-11, one of the main subjects covered is the natural world. Genesis 1 in particular provides crucial information for understanding the origin of the natural world. In the first verse of the entire Bible (Genesis 1:1), the reader is immediately told that “God created the heavens and the earth.” Additionally, the reader is informed that “there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day” (Genesis 1:31), showing that God’s work of creation took six days. Because I believe that God created the world in six literal days, the foundation of my worldview is entirely different than the foundation of an atheist’s worldview. When I look at the world around me, I do not view everything around me as the product of random chance and evolution; instead, I see everything around me as the handiwork of God.

In the passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood, the author demonstrates the value of education. He did this by telling a story about a family that seemed uneducated compared to others in the passage. A young boy and possibly a whole town learns that you don’t have to be extremely educated in school to have knowledge. A reader may assume that the dialect of the characters and their lack of scientific based knowledge makes this family uneducated. However, in the driest summer of 1908, this family knew there was going to be a flood. Through their observation, preparation, and execution of a plan, they demonstrated who was the smartest of all.

Within the movie it is hard to see the remnants of the biblical story of Noah. We did not notice Noah having a relationship with God. It seemed as though Noah was guessing what God wanted him to do and not talking to him and interacting with him as his creator. Noah and God never had a conversation with each other. Noah got mad one time and just yelled up to the clouds (representing God). There was not a complete relationship between these two very influential characters in the movie. It also didn’t seem like Noah recognized that God was the creator in the movie. The director of Noah is an Atheist. We thought we could notice how his beliefs about religion and God influenced the movie, therefore not making it similar to the biblical account. While discussing with my group, someone brought up the fact that the production company of Noah had to write a statement apologizing for the historical inaccuracy of the movie. This really helps to prove our point about the movie not being truthful about what the Bible really says. Instead of the water coming from the sky like it says in the Bible, the director makes the water come out of the ground. He may be trying to show that the flood didn’t actually happen and was just a mythological story. I think the director’s stance on religion has a big impact in why this statement had to be

After reading about Atrahasis, Enuma Elish and The Epic of Gilgamesh, it makes sense to me that these were not literatures that were used as religious material. The myths or stories were used to explain the creation of the world and life. (p. 21) I understand the story about Atrahasis, however it sounds strangely close to the story from the Bible that I know as, Noah’s Ark. The gods had created the flood in order to act as a population control. It was Enki who suggested that Atrahases to build a boat that would survive such a catastrophic flood. The difference between Atrahases and Noah, is that only family and live stock were on board instead of what I know of Noah having a male and a female of every species. The story of Atrahases does seem more believable than Noah’s epic story about the ark and animals. The gods were about to come to a compromise despite their different beliefs about how to create population control. “Some women would be barren, some children would die at birth and some categories of priestesses would not bear children at all. “(p. 21)

Christianity and Islam are to very closely related religions, and they share the same origins, and some of the same history. The Koran and the Old Testament of the Bible are very closely related, in that many of the stories share the same points and characters. One of the overlapping stories is the story of the Flood. Although the main point or objective of the story is the same the means that each book gets there by is very different. Although in both Koran and in the Bible, Noah is the messenger to God, he plays opposing roles in each of the stories. The outcome of both though is the same.

Noah and the Ark (Genesis 9:1), in my opinion, is the strongest covenant with God and man because of his strong faith in God and his motivation. The story of Noah and the Ark tells of a righteous man in a world of sin without moral obedience. The story took place in the country of Egypt. The basic plot of Noah and the Ark is that God sees earth is full of sin and chooses Noah to build and ark so he can wipe the world clean from sin. Noah had to sin and he also rejected others bad influences.

In this article Lorence G. Collins disputes the claim that the remains of Noah’s Ark have been found in Turkey. He claims that the formation being claimed to be composed of petrified wood, washers, rivets, brackets for the walls, and anchor stones is not Noah’s Ark and backs this up with scientific evidence. In the 1970’s through the 1980’s the site of the supposed ark was explored by Ron Wyatt, David Fosold, and John Baumgardner and this author debunks their findings. One reason these scientists thought this was Noah’s Ark was because these remains they found were 515 feet long, which is the same length as 300 Egyptian cub units, the dimensions that were given from God for the Ark. These scientists proposed

The account with Noah and his family is based solely around the Great Flood; God caused a Great Flood to come upon the face of the earth because man had become evil. His thoughts, desires, and heart was filled with wickedness. Nothing that remained was not evil, everything humankind were doing was an abomination to God. In Genesis 6:11-13 Moses said,"That the earth was corrupt and filled with violence; for all flesh had become corrupted in their ways." And God said to Noah, for the end of all flesh has come before Him, and that earth was filled with violence through them and behold, He will destroy them with the earth. In my opinion God sent the flood, because they were wicked and beyond the hope for changing and this was something He could

Is the Noah’s Ark story true or just a nice fairytale? There are many questions that people wonder about this biblical story but one of the major ones that people are asking is, could the boat stay afloat with all of the animals in it? A lot of science goes into answering this question. Scientist have discovered that in order to float, the object has to exert the same amount of force on the water as the weight of the water it displaces. If the object had a greater density than the water it would sink. They calculated that the empty boat would have no problem at all staying afloat on the ocean. The ark was about the size of a very small cargo ship. It was discovered that the ark could hold about 2.15 million sheep and sill stay afloat. There

#1) When the story opens the author “hooks” the reader by telling the reader that both of Pip’s parents are dead and that his sister married a blacksmith after their deaths to support Pip’s schooling and to not become homeless. One day Pip went to the graveyard to weep at their headstones when an escaped convict jumps out and tells Pip to keep still or he'll cut his throat. Pip tells the convict his name and the convict demanded food and a file from Pip. The convict even threatened him with a made up young man that will cut Pips liver and heart while he's sleeping if he doesn't return with the requested items.

Creation stories of early humanity have similar thematic characteristics, along with very different themes. Monotheism and polytheism distinguish themselves through importance placed on actions done by their followers to serve their god(s). In most creation stories, supreme beings are pronounced to establish order in the universe following with submission to said supreme beings. These themes are evident in the Middle East, specifically in Ancient Near Eastern creation stories.

The story of Noah tells of YHWH´s post-Deluge covenant with all living creatures. The story of the Israelites´ Exodus from the Egypt tells of their special covenant, or sacred pact,with this god and their becoming a Chosen People with a new identity. They referred to themselves as Israel and also as the Children of Israel and the Israelites because they traced their lineage to Jacob, whose name God had changed to Israel. Jacob, the grandson of Abraham and the son of Isaac, had twelve sons, each of whom became the patriarch of one of the tribes of the children of Israel. Whether Abraham and the other patriarch were historical figures or just figments of mythic imagination is another issue that defies definitive resolution.

“My son Noah built New/Ark and I stood proudly at the helm. As we sailed on a soft summer day I turned myself into myself and was Jesus. Men intone my loving name. All praises all praises I am the one who would save” (Verse 5). In this verse, Nikki shows us that she is more than just a goddess, but she is the savior for mankind. In addition, this could be a Christian reference because when she looked inside herself and found Jesus who reaches out to the lost and save them. In this case the goddess in the poem is the Jesus for all African-American women who have suffered getting equal rights and finding a hard time to fit in. Furthermore, getting the same equal opportunities as males especially those who been forced to work to survive and make