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The Life Foundations
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NOAH’S ARK
By Dr. Michael J. Bisconti
There are
a few people that believe that Noah’s Ark was an impossibility. Well, let us see:
We must comment
on the well-established teaching that Noah’s Ark had to house specimens of all
of the animals in the world. This
teaching is based on the false idea that “the earth” in Genesis 6 – 8 is “the
earth as modern man conceives it,” that is, as a globe. THIS IS INCORRECT! The earth was “the earth as the people of Noah’s time conceived
it.” You find a description of this
conception of the earth in Isaiah 40:22:
It is he
that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them
out as a tent to dwell in….”
Note “the
circle of the earth.” This refers to
the “circle of the horizon as a man sees it standing in the middle of a
field.” Note “the heavens as a curtain.” A curtain has a beginning and an end. This is the “sky as a man sees it standing
in the middle of a field.” This is not
the “vastness of outer space which has no beginning or end.” Finally, note “as a tent to dwell in.” This refers to “the sky as a man sees it
standing in the middle of a field.”
This is the sky “as a tent.” The
vastness of outer space is NOT like a tent.
It is like a BOX and, more accurately, a spherical container.
Thus, we
see the silliness of the objection to the POSSIBILITY OF NOAH’S ARK! Incidentally, every culture in the world has
a legend, more or less agreeing with the biblical account, about “a few ancient
people who escaped an inescapable flood in a special vessel.”