Noah And The Flood

In continuation to the Bible’s magnificent hits, the story that follows upon Creation, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, is the prominent story of Noah and the Flood. This story is one of the most memorable to all people whether they are religious or not, due to the fact that out of all biblical stories, this somehow seems the most impossible, in regards to the plot. The famous story about the Great Flood is best know from the Bible in (Genesis 6-9). Across the Biblical book of Genesis and the entire Torah, disagreements and doublets can be recognized. Per example, in the v ery beginning of the Bible there are two Creation stories (Genesis 1 and Genesis 2), and throughout this great story of the Flood, we can find several contradictions.

The beginning of this story starts with God discovering that the whole earth, according to Gen 6:12 “was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth”. In continuation, God then tells Moses that he has

It begins with God telling Noah once more that all life should be destroyed, therefore resulting into Noah getting into the ark. God then tells Noah to, “take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and it’s mate; and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and its mate” (Gen 7:2). The reason for the one pair of unclean animals in order for them to multiply the planet. However, the problem still continues to arise. According to Gen 7:11-12, “in the sixth hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventh day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. The rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights”. But the problem is where did all this water from the Flood arrive from? Correspondingly, there is a compelling problem of time. As stated above, the Flood comes on the seventeenth day of the second month of Noah’s six hundredth