A one-year cruise
Noah and his family didn’t stay on the boat for just 40 days. It took a year for the floodwater to subside enough for them to disembark. A Visual Walk Through Genesis, pages 59-60. Casual English Bible
The myth of Mt. Ararat
Explorers have searched Mt. Ararat for traces of Noah’s boat. But they need to widen their search area. The Bible says the boat came to halt “somewhere in the Ararat mountain range,” (Genesis 8:4, Casual English Bible). That’s a bit …
Methuselah: Flood victim?
The ancient version of the Bible used to create the King James Version puts the death of Methuselah (age 969) in the same year as Noah’s Flood. Numbers used in the first Greek translation add up to him living 14 years after the Flood. A stowaway? A …
How did we get different races of people?
NOAH IS OUR GRANDPA, the Bible says. We’re all related to him since his family is the only one the Bible says survived the worldwide flood. So why don’t we look like him? Why do some of us look like the relative nobody in the family wants to talk …
Movie review: Noah makes my wife jerk
I JUST GOT BACK from watching the movie “Noah,” with my wife. I don’t recommend it. The movie. Or watching it with my wife. She jumps too much. The movie didn’t scare me. My wife did. She’d get excited when I wouldn’t, ‘cause I’m relaxed watching …
The Bible isn’t always wrong
EVEN IF THE BIBLE is not a history book, as many Christians insist, it does have some reliable history. In this week’s Friday Fun Facts, I should probably tell you a little about that, since in my last two blog posts I reported why some Christians …
Reaction: “Why Christians doubt Bible history”
WELL MONDAY’S BLOG punched a button. Not the button I expected. Monday’s blog was Why do some Christians doubt Bible history? I gave some of the reasons some Christian say they doubt the accuracy of Bible stories that others read as history. I …
Why do some Christians doubt Bible history?
HEADS EXPLODE over this question. I’ve seen it happen. We’ve talked about this question in my Bible study class. People in the group explored reasons why some Christians don’t believe there was a literal Adam and Eve, or a flood that covered the …
Noah’s flood: Waterworld
“I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes.” God to Noah, Genesis 6:17 EARTH BECAME WATERWORLD, as the Bible tells it. Anything that breathed got buried at sea—except those lucky enough to be …
The Iraqi Flood Story
CULTURES ALL OVER THE WORLD tell of a Great Flood. One shows up in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Babylonian tale estimated to have been written more than 3,600 years ago. One fragment of the story, considered a copy, dates to about 2,600 years ago. Here’s …
Noah’s Flood: Not so godly?
IF GOD IS SO GOOD, why’d he kill everybody—people and animals? Killing everybody is overkill. If someone at the dinner table offends you, it’s not kosher to kill them. And it certainly makes no sense to kill everyone else, too, along with Buddy the …
Noah may not have landed on Mt. Ararat
IT SURPRISES MANY PEOPLE, but the Bible doesn’t say that Noah’s ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. “The boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat” (Genesis 8:4). Like the Rockies, Ararat is a mountain range. It runs along the border of Turkey, …