Saturday, March 31, 2012

Genesis 11:1-4

Genesis 11:1-4 show that everyone had descended from eight people and that they had stayed together makes it logical that their language would be the same. The land of Shinar was roughly part of modern-day Iraq and this reference shows familiarity with the area since dried or fire burnt bricks are the most practical building material in that part of the world. This is actually supported by DNA Evidence. (see reference)\

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Friday, March 30, 2012

Genesis 10:32

Genesis 10:32 is a summery shows once again that all nations are descended from Noah and his family. The is supported by DNA data.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Genesis 10:21-31

Genesis 10:21-31 shows  the decedents of Shem. Following Babel they settled mainly in the Middle East and Asia, this is known because these genealogies match up with the ancient names of various nations is in these areas. Verse 25 says of Eber’s son Peleg; “for in his days was the earth divided”, this indicates that Peleg was born at he time of the destruction of the Tower of Babel

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Genesis 10:6-20

Genesis 10:6-20 shows the decedents of Ham. Following Babel they settled mainly in Africa, this is known because these genealogies match up with the ancient names of various nations in like Sheba which according to local tradition was in modern Ethiopia. These verse also mentions the Canaanites who are known to have settled in what is now Israel.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Genesis 10:2-5

Genesis 10:2-5 shows the decedents of Japheth. Following Babel they settled in Europe, this is known because these genealogies match up with the ancient names of various European nations.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Genesis 10:1

Genesis 10:1 is the beginning the sixth tablet In this case it contains genealogies of Noah’s three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Genesis 9:28-29

Genesis 9:28-29 shows us that Noah lived another 350 years after the flood and died at the ripe old age of  950 years old.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Genesis 9:20-27

Genesis 9:20-27 is the fist recorded drunkenness in the Bible. This passage was erroneously used to excuse black slavery, it is thus wrongly referred to as the curse of Ham, but note the cures was not on Ham but on his son Canaan. Black Africans are not descended from Canaan, the Canaanites were and they lived in the land that is now Israel

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Genesis 9:18-19

Genesis 9:18-19 is a clear statement that all living human beings are descended from Noah’s three son’s and their wives. This has been verified by studies of human mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA both which show a clear three way split centered on the Middle East where Babel was.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Genesis 9:8-17

In Genesis 9:8-17 Here God makes a covenant; which is a special type of promise; with Noah and his descendants not to flood the Earth again and He designates the rain bow as a sing of that promise.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Genesis 9:4-7

Genesis 9:4-7
Verse four is a propitiation against consuming blood and it is a clear statement of a scientific principle of blood’s importance to life. This was clearly not believed by though that would bleed people trying to heal them.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Genesis 9:2-3

Prior to the Flood Animals had no innate fair of man as wild animals often do to day. In Genesis 9:2-3  God tells man he can eat meat at this point. This change in diet was probably a result of the change in environment following the Flood resulting in an all vegetarian diet not providing as much nutrition as before.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Genesis 9:1

In Genesis 9:1 God is tells Noah and his family to have lots of kids and to repopulate the Earth, Which they did since there are now 7 billion people spread all over Earth. As we will see it took some proding from God however.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Genesis 8: 21-22

In Genesis 8: 21-22 God not only accepted Noah’s offering but promised not to destroy all life again is such a manner. This is also proof the flood was global since there have been numerous local flood simce

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Genesis 8: 20

According to Genesis 8: 20 the reason why seven of each kind of clean animal was that Noah need them for food and for sacrifices.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Genesis 8: 15-19

In Genesis 8: 15-19 God tels Noah and his family it was time leave the ark. He also told them and the animals to have lots and lots of kids. They did so.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Genesis 8:13-14

Genesis 8:13-14 gives the exact dates that Flood events occurred. The first time is when the water was dried off of the surface of the ground but the ground itself was still socked and muddy and the second about fifty days latter the ground it self had dried out.

Monday, March 12, 2012

Genesis 8:8-12

Genesis 8:8-12 says that Noah sent out a Dove which at first returned to him, then seven days layer he sent it out again and it returned with a freshly picked olive leaf in it beak, this indicates that plant life was starting to grow again. Noah then sent the dove out a week later and it did not return.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Genesis 8:6-7

Genesis 8:6-7
40 days after the Flood finished draining Noah sent out a raven and it kust flew around until the ground was dry enough for it to land. Note: the Hebrew word “`oreb” includes not only raven, but crows and similar birds.

Friday, March 9, 2012

Genesis 8:3-5

Genesis 8:3-5
Genesis 7:17 says the Flood water started going down after 150 days, and then drained for another 150 days, (Genesis 8:3) for a total of 300 days which would be 10 months. Furthermore verse 4 says the Ark land on the 17th day of the 7 months which would be five months after the Flood started. Verse 5 says the mountains were first seen on the on the 1st day of the 10th month or 253 days after the Flood started.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Genesis 8:2

The word stopped not only means to end but also to close.Genesis 8:2indicates that the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed at this point. This consistent with the earlier suggestion the Earth atmosphere was the “windows of heaven” opened by water from the fountains of the deep ripping through it. Once eruption of subterranean water ended the whole collapsed back closing the “windows of heaven.” The shock wave from the closer may have been the wind mentioned in verse one. Not that this resulted in the rain ending. This would have occurred after forty days.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Genesis 8:1

Genesis 8:1 does not imply that God forgot Noah and all that were in the Ark with him, but rather it shows that God did not for get them. This verse indicates that is at this point in that the water reached its peek and started to settle down since the Flood would have been a storm like no other before or since.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Genesis 7:19-24

Genesis 7:19-24 makes it clear this Flood was global in extent. It says that the heist mountains in world at that time were covered by water to a depth of 15 cubits. This means that this flood had to be a Global Flood since any Flood covering the highest mountains in the world would by definition be a global Flood.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Genesis 7:13-18

Genesis 7:13-18 indicates that Noah and his family entered the ark on the same day. One question often asked is whether or not the ark could be loaded with the needed animals in a day.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Genesis 7:1-3

Genesis 7:1-3
A common argument against the feasibility of Noah’s Ark is that it could not possibly carry representatives of every species that has ever lived on Earth. Now this is true but then again the Ark did not have to carry representatives of every species just land animal genus and in some cases families. It has been estimated that
there are only about 8,000 living and extinct genera for a total of a bout 16000 individuals.

Given the Ark’s dimensions 45 X 75 X 450 gives the ark a volume of 1,518,750 ft3. This means that here was and average volume per animal of 94 ft3 which is more than enough room for most kinds of animals and their food supply. While some animals like elephants and larger dinosaurs are quite large most animals are actually rather small, in fact averaging the big and the small animals results in an average size about that of sheep.