@tx_christian - I am talking about people who call themselves Christian’s but say that the bible is not the word of God. That it is just a book.

I am not talking at all about interpreting it different

@drung888 - We usually think of Noah only taking two of every animal – but he actually takes seven of each clean animal, the ones you could eat, and seven of each bird.
Was there room for all this on the ark?
The ark would have been 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. The ark would have an internal volume of 1,518,750 cubic feet, or the equivalent of 569 standard railroad boxcars. If the average sized animal was the size of a sheep it means the ark could hold over 125,000 sheep. Assuming the shape of the ark to be rectangular there would have been over 100,000 sq. ft of floor space.

Why should we believe in a worldwide flood?  First, because the Bible talks about it.  But there are also a growing number of scientists who are finding support for a worldwide, catastrophic flood.
From an article by Dr. Henry Morris, written in August, 1998 – he gave quite a few reasons, but here are some of the easier ones to understand …
1. Shells on mountain tops
All the mountains of the world have been under water at some time or times in the past. You can see this with the sedimentary rocks and marine fossils found near their summits.
2. Sedimentary rocks
Most of the earth’s crust is made up of sedimentary rocks (like sandstone, shale, limestone, etc.). These were originally formed in almost all cases under water, with material being deposited by water from various sources.
3. Fossils require rapid burial and pressure
The so-called “ages” of the sedimentary beds (which make up the “geologic column”) have been dated by the types of fossils found in the layers. But making a fossil requires rapid burial and pressure in order for the fossil to be preserved instead of being decomposed. This fits a “catastrophic” view of geology, the idea that there was a huge disaster that caused the layers, not millions of years.
4. Flood stories around the world
There are traditions of a great Flood found in hundreds of tribes in all parts of the world. This sounds like those tribes all originated from one family preserved through the disaster.
Dr. John Morris, in an article from 2001, discusses these traditions found around the world. He’s collected over 200 of these stories and analyzed them with statistics to show how many parts of the story are found in each tradition. When he puts the stories together, it sounds just like the Genesis record.

God tells Noah to build an ark. Folks, he did not contract this work out. God called and Noah took those steps of faith and obeyed! This boat was approximately 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high, using 18 inches for a cubit. Think about it, this boat measured 1½ times the length of a football field and it was not until 1858 that a boat bigger than the ark was built. And keep in mind it was more like a barge, it was not built for speed or navigation, it just needed to float and withstand this storm of judgment.  It was built for stability.

            This ark had 3 decks on it with ceilings at least 12 feet high, giving the total deck space to be about 95,700 square feet!  There was also a window around the top of the ark, near the roof, measuring about 18 inches that was used for light and ventilation.  The weight of the ark has been estimated at about 15 to 20 tons!

            One of the other problems that people have with this account is, “How in the world could all those animals fit into this boat?”  First of all let’s deal the total volumetric capacity of the ark, which was approximately 1.4 million cubic feet. Now that may be hard to picture, so let me explain it this way.  The three decks of the ark would be able to hold approximately 522 standard box cars. And each box car could hold 240 animals the size of a sheep. That means the ark could hold 125,000 animals with an average size equaling that of a sheep.

            Dr. Henry Morris estimates that only 146 of those box cars would be needed to house the entire vertebrate population of about 35,000 distinct kinds.  And some even bring that number down further, to only 16,000 distinct kinds of animals to preserve the created kinds.  That would still leave more than enough room for food, water and living areas for only 28% of the arks volume was being used for the animals, the other 72% was open.

            Were there dinosaurs on the ark? You bet, but again, keep in mind most of the dinosaurs were the size of sheep, only a few were large and if the large ones were taken on board, they were probably babies at that time, you would not need a full grown dinosaur on the ark!

            The inside of the ark was covered in pitch to seal out the water. Now to me, that seems like overkill, why do both the inside and outside?  The simplest explanation is that you want to make sure this boat is watertight; you don’t want to take any chances of it leaking.  Also, maybe God wanted to preserve it as a witness to a future generation of what God has done in the past and is preparing to do once again, pour out His judgment upon a wicked world.  Does that mean the ark is still around today?  It is very possible and there has been many reports from people saying they have seen the ark in the mountains of Ararat! Let me just share with you a few of these reports. We are told:

            In 275 B.C. Berosus, a Babylonian historian, wrote: “But of this ship that grounded in Armenia some part still remains in the mountains . . . and some get pitch from the ship by scraping it off.”

            Around 75 A.D. Josephus said the locals collected relics from the ark and showed them off to this very day.  He also said all the ancient historians he knew of wrote about the ark.

            In 180 A.D. Theophilus of Antioch wrote: “the remains [of the ark] are to this day to be seen . . . in the mountains.”

            An elderly Armenian man in America said that as a boy, he visited the ark with his father and three atheistic scientists in 1856. Their goal was to disprove the ark’s existence, but they found it and became so enraged they tried to destroy it, but could not because it was too big and had petrified. In 1918 one of the atheistic scientists (an Englishman) admitted on his deathbed the whole story was true.

            In 1876 a distinguished British statesman and author, Viscount James Bryce, climbed Ararat and reported finding a four-foot long piece of hand-tooled timber at an altitude of more than 13,000 feet (4,300 meters).

            Six Turkish soldiers claimed to see the ark in 1916.

            In the early part of this [past] century, a Russian aviator named Vladimire Rokovitsky claimed the discovery of Noah’s ark. He was stationed in southern Russia near the Turkish border and Mount Ararat. As he tested a plane he and his co-pilot flew over Ararat and discovered on the edge of a glacier what he described as a boat the size of a battleship. He said it was partially submerged in a lake, and he could see there was an opening for a door nearly 20 feet (7 meters) square, but the door was missing.  Rokovitsky told his commanding officer and an expedition was dispatched to find the ark and photograph it. The report was forwarded to the Czar, who was soon overthrown and the photos and the report perished.

            In 1936 a young British archaeologist named Hardwicke Knight hiked across Ararat and discovered interlocking hand-tooled timbers at a height of 14,000 feet (4,600 meters).

            During World War II two pilots saw and photographed something they believed was the ark on Mount Ararat.

            There have been many more recent attempts to find and document the ark, but they have been hindered by politics and surrounded in controversy.

            Do we need to find Noah’s ark to prove of a past judgment of God? Not at all. Just look at this earth and you will see the evidence of a worldwide flood, of a judgment of God!  You see, as you look at this earth what you find are billions of dead things, buried in rock layers, laid down by water, all over the earth!  Will they find the ark?  They might, but for most people, it won’t change their minds because the heavens declare the glory of God and if you refuse the evidence that is now before you, finding the ark won’t change that!

when you look at the evidence that is out there,
you can see the remains of a devastating flood, brought on because
of the wickedness of man, to destroy all but 8 people and the
animals and birds that were aboard the ark.There is coming another
judgment and only those that are
in Christ will be saved from it.

@pray14me - I wasn’t condemning you to hell for playing the lottery. All I was saying was I don’t play the lottery because I believe it is a sin.

What you feel on the issue is between you and God.

And this post is about people who say they are Christians but say they don’t believe the Bible is the Word of God. It has nothing to taking verses to mean different things or anything like that.

I am sorry if you are mad at me.

God bless

@MrsDarcy_MrsDarcy_MrsDarcy - Are they saying “I don’t believe the bible is the word of God”, or something a
little different?

Yes, that is exactly what they are saying

They say it isn’t the word of God it is just a book with stories to help us be good people

@pray14me - I’m not pregnant That cute picture is my big boy who just turned 6 today.

He is growing up sooo fast.

I can’t have anymore children unless the Lord works a miracle. I would love another little girl. I would name her Hannah Mary. Some days I feel like she is missing from our family but I try to remember the Lord knows best and try to raise the three He gave me the best I can.