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Interests => Religious Discussions => Topic started by: marv on January 24, 2014, 07:21:12 PM
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British Museum: Prototype for Noah's Ark was round (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_ANCIENT_ARK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-24-14-58-33)
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A recently deciphered 4,000-year-old clay tablet from ancient Mesopotamia - modern-day Iraq - reveals striking new details about the roots of the Old Testament tale of Noah. It tells a similar story, complete with detailed instructions for building a giant round vessel known as a coracle - as well as the key instruction that animals should enter "two by two."
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Nope.
"So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks." --Genesis 6: 14-16
About 440 ft long x 70 ft wide x 40 ft high. About 14 ft overheads on each level if spaced equally.
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British Museum: Prototype for Noah's Ark was round (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_BRITAIN_ANCIENT_ARK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-01-24-14-58-33)
Gee Marv, IIRC the blue prints of the Ark are written down in the OT. Naturally they were written thousands of years after the BIG flood. The time it was written the ship or Ark must have resembled the boats that were trading at that time up and down the coasts.
We have had floods up the yin yang since time began, all cultures on earth have story's of an event at some time that wiped out most of their civilization's, stands to reason that each would have some differences in each story.
Was the ARK round, may well have been in some parts of the world. Also some one had to have witnessed a deluge to tell others about it.
As far as the saved animals, most likely the people gathered up what was on hand, live stock ETC. and no worry about trying to save the Lions, Tigers and Bears.
So if the OT story is true for that part of the world, the time it would take to repopulate our planet would have been in the thousands and thousands of years in order to raise such huge numbers of men to form armies to sacrifice themselves in battle for any reason.
I have read that on the shores of the Black Sea there have been found a unknown civilization that must have thrived there for quite some time, at some time the Sea overtook them, did any escape ?
Fascinating book the OT, all kinds of amazing story's some that have been proven with science to have been true. Some are frankly strange, can a man live in the belly of a whale ???