1. Why did Noah build the ark? I know you will probably take this as an affront to your post & I dont intend for it to sound insulting, but fantasies are a huge hinrance to the truth. But Id like to talk about Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. 7 He sent out a raven. All-access and digital members: Read more about depictions of Noahs ark in ancient biblical art in The Curious Case of NoahsBox? in the Summer 2021 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review. Toll Free: 1-877-247-2426. Nobody responded. Another possibility is that Noah hired people to help him build the Ark. Noah built the ark, filled it with pairs of every kind of animal, and prepared for the flood.. The Book of Enoch states that the Watchers shared secret knowledge with their sons that led to the corruption of the world. Such a disappointment. By BGEA The Most High (Elyon) fixed the boundaries of peoples according to the number of the sons of God (El). After its own kind (animal & human).., yep its right there in Genesis, its the simple reason humans cannot have relations with horses & life forms of half human & half horse are produced. Book of enoch As human men they were able to do all the things that humans can do. WHY 40? The creation sequence is consistant with modern physics regarding the origin of the universe on the first day of creation. Paul D. - - , ; , . think you not that the bible has huge gaps and contradictions and clearly states IT IS SEALED SEVEN TIMES ;7 TIMES CODEX. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one anothers flesh, and drink the blood. I saw the movie, and then came home and reread the biblical account. In the current issue of BAR (Searching for the Original Bible' by Emanuel Tov) on pages 50-52 it cites the verse from Deuteronomy 32:8 based on the King James version: Ever read much from that book? Something to pursude deeper. That stuff is the material from which mythology is derived. In this milieu the psilocybin-containg mushrooms were encountered, consumed, and deified. It is falsely ascribed to Enoch. Floodwater destroyed the wicked and all creatures that lived on the land except those in the ark. I havent seen this movie but I know its just gonna suck. If Hollywood can screw up WWII movies, with tons of factual, documented evidence to rely on, what do you expect the celluloid folks to do with a Bible story? Lets hope Ridley Scott can keep from killing his Exodus movie. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and to the torment and the prison in which they shall be confined for ever. Genesis 6 makes no mention of rock giantsor fallen angelshelping Noah build the ark. read more:http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/wp20130901/did-languages-come-from-the-tower-of-babel/. Grab your bible. 5 Things We Can Learn from Noah Building the Ark. Therefore, demons can inhabit people! This article first appeared in Bible History Daily on July 21, 2021. Youre either Church of Christ or from a denom that has a heavy Calvinist influence. I think that Enoch writings are key source to understand what happened in the past, in that way we will be able to understand whats coming in the future because Jesus said that the last times will be like in the days of Noah, and according to Enoch and the book of Genesis, giants, nephilim, rephaim & fallen angels were on earth in those days, and will be again for the coming of the son of men. So the idea of the ark being a box shape is probably correct albeit WITHOUT legs! 1. His warnings were considered irrational. This role is reversed in the non-canonical book, The Shepherd of Hermes. In chapter 51 the elm tree symbolizes the rich person that doesn.t produce fuit; the rich person has money, but is poor towards the Lord, since he is distracted by his wealth. It gos on to describe a type of symbiotic relationship between the elm and the vine (not unlike Gilgamesh and Enkidu) so that the vine entwines itself aroun the elm, enabling it to bear fruit, which it couldnt do lying on the ground. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch" (Gen. 6:14). While the original authors of the Pentateuch used distinct Hebrew terms to refer to Noahs ark (tieveh) and the box-shaped Ark of the Covenant (aron), the Hebrew Bibles Greek translators, who began their work in the third century B.C.E., used a single Greek word, kibotos, meaning an enclosed wooden container used to store valuables, to refer to both objects. When the floodwater receded, Noah and his family exited the ark. I have made a series titled Book of Enoch Warnings for the last Generation Watchers Nephilim Giants & Fallen Angels Explained The phrase tinged with renders tifsei, based on tufsa, frame, mold, mold, form, configuration,, pattern' (The Zohar, p.192). And the canopy of water that surrounded the earth was used (Gen 1:6-10). It is beleived that the next attempt at plant domestication occured in the region of Gobleki Tepe, so perhaps this is the land of Nod (wandering) that Cain settled in, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). For example, if we review the Hebrew word for angel, malak, we find it doesnt mean a supernatural being at all, but messenger, AND ALSO, king, priest, judge, lord, shepherd, ambassador, deputy, etc. Why are you trying to make the movie Noah fit with the Bible? Stories in time grow more complex, the simple are earlier. BGEA is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. He agreesbut to no avail. 21. As for the sons of Elohim, it is a fact that in ancient times the king and queen would assume the role of the god/goddess in a fertility rite. I have been studying the Bible from these manuscripts for a couple of decades now, I appreciate their value. The higher the vote, the further up an answer is. Answer (1 of 13): 40 was used in the OT to mean "a lot". 20. That the Ark Encounter in Kentucky is a farce? One author claims: The Tower of Babel myth is definitely one of the most absurd stories ever told. Even a Jewish rabbi called it a naive attempt to explain the origin of nations. In addition, springs burst forth under the oceans, pouring in more water. A few people have attempted to novelize it, in order to cut through the fog and present a realistic scenario that harmonizes the Biblical account with the myths attached to it. Havent seen the movie yet, but it seems to me that the stone giants are the prehistoric Stonehenge-like monuments like the site of Gobekli Tepe near modern Urfa in southeast Turkey (ancient Ur of Kasdim, Genesis 11:31). Why wouldnt they show the giants as good guys, helping Gods chosen? The floods came. For no very good reason (probably). 6. Therefore, if Noah was born 1,056 years after creation and the flood started when he was 600 years old, and the ark took approximately a year to build (see below, then he was 1,655 years old when he began building the ark and 1,656 . think you the creator has no more light? God provided instructions. CHAPTER VI. I attempted to watch it this past weekend and had to turn it off after an hour an a half. He built an ark with room for more. Rain began and lasted 40 days and 40 nights. The standing stones at Gobekli Tepe were carved in the form of predatory creatures the significance of which eludes us. Because you & the Noah movie are contorting Gen 6:2 sons into angels based on an English capital g for God for the Hebrew word elohyim for you have no standing based on the words of Christ in Mark 12:25 & Matt 22:30, in so doing you are challenging the words of Christ himself, you are suggesting you know something Christ just plain forgot about & that he needs you & the Noah movie to get him straightened out on. Floodwater destroyed the wicked and all creatures that lived on the land except those in the ark. NO ONE PUTS THE KEY TO HIDDEN TREASURES IN PUBLIC UNLESS THEY FIRST ENCODE IT FOR ONLY THE WORTHY ARE WORTHY , THE TRUE SEEKERS. You are following mainstream answers. Point 4 Today men splice DNA to create new attributes in one species from another species. The womans name is the same as the Egyptian designation for the land of Canaan, Hurru, and the Old Testament references Hurrian people being intermarried with Edomites in the region of Mount Seir (Genesis 36:29-30). COPYRIGHT 2023 BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY 5614 Connecticut Ave NW #343, Washington DC 20015-2604. The throne of Satan in Revelation 2:13 is the Great Alter in Pergamum, dedicated to Zeus. Dig into the illuminating world of the Bible with a BAS All-Access membership. Sadly, regardless of theology or how it plays with source materials, either Biblical or extra-Biblical, turns out that its just a bad movie. And they said to the Lord of the ages: Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory (standeth) unto all the generations of the ages, and Thy name holy and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Everything on land that needed to breath would die except for those on Noahs ark. Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. The answer has to do with translation. However, while the Carter is basically a cylinder, the ark was rectangular, and most likely shaped for the largest volume. Mark 12:25, Matt 22:30, no sex if you please, meaning no offspring? Shortly after 13,00 B.C. On the first day of that month, the tops of the mountains could be seen. Easter is celebrated after 40 days. In ancient Israel, they used clay replicas of goddesses as an inexpensive way to connect to their beliefs. President Spencer W. Kimball explained that when Noah built the ark, "there was no evidence of rain and flood. Required fields are marked *. Not so fast! The book of Enoch, Chapters 10-12, 54-82 are told by Noah, 105 describes his birth and Chapter 81 give a star references to about 12,500 years before Christ with Bootees ,Ursa major and minor as seasonal constellations. How foolish to build an ark on dry ground with the sun shining and life moving forward as usual! The Flood was a real event. That is best wish for all involved, what the devil made for evil, God can turn it for good. Cover it inside and out with pitch." And Noah did exactly as God commanded him ( Genesis 6:13-22 ). A reflection of the wealther liberal north (Marylin) and the more conservative south (Rosie).. Howards interpretation is plausable and on the first point he makes he compares the sons of Elohim seducing the daughters of man with the serpent/magician seducing Eve, using the line; you will be like Elohim knowing good and evil (Genesis 3:5) A similar occurance happened near the end of the reign of Pharaoh Ramses III that is described in the Papyrus of Harris. The only way, as Jesus said. Both works are an artistic interpretation of the original story, retold in order to appeal to a modern audience. To these that sober race of men, These materialized angels were able to eat like any human(Gen.18,8) and no doubt had the ability to cohabitbut of course this would be a perversion of Gods purpose for them on earth. God sent a wind, then for 150 days the water steadily went down. think not that the bible was changed and libraries burnt down? Genesis 7:11: 40: 40 days and nights: 3rd month, 27th day of the month: Rain fell for 40 days, and then water covered the earth's highest places (at that time) by over ~20 feet (15 cubits) and began the stage of flooding until the next milestone.2: Genesis 7:11-12, Genesis 7:17-20: 150 Not content with endeavoring to dethrone the king by an uprising of both soldiers and civilians, Hui, a certain high official, who was the overseer of the [royal] cattle, bethought him of applying magic to help their evil designs, and with this object in view he went to some one who had access to to the kings library, and he obtained from him a book containing formula of a magical nature, and directions for working magic. 22:30. Who could rightly disagree with the Master. 8. Public Domain. Hollywood wont get the bible account correct, but it is still ok to add the rock monsters for the audience to get involved in the movie. There is nothing in all the Bible that states angels can have sex with humans! Reference:Insight on the Scriptures, Vol I. Remember, the Ark didn't have to win any beauty contests, or speed races, it just had to be strong and float. This interpretation was based on a reading from the Masoretic text. Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. Billy Graham. Was He More than an Exodus Hero? 2. How did Noah build the ark? Who Was Moses? And they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept with the women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. Jareds name means go down.so what, now you sound as if youre comparing one who was in all likelihood a righteous man who had a righteous wife the mother of Enoch & you are comparing them to fallen angels. The NEPHILIM (gigantes -giants-Septuagint) PROVED TO BE IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS, and also after that, when the Sons of God CONTINUED to have relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty ones(gigantes-giantsSeptuagint) who were of old, the men of fame(but still men, not Hollywoods imaginary rock creatures). It took 40 days and 40 nights to complete it. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless CHAPTER VIII. There is a Hebrew/Aramaic word for angel, and it does not appear anywhere in Gen 6:1-4, and Ill give you another clue, the Hebrew/Aramaic word for son(s) is also not the same as for angel. For Example quoting you: Genesis 6:2, are actually angels Point 1 Eve listened to the Magician/Snake who instilled in her, a thirst for forbidden knowledge. Check out The Descent of the Gods at http://www.thedescentofthegods.com for example. In biblical accounts, the flood was caused by God's wrath and lasted for 40 days and 40 nights. And the women have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. I think that is the moral lesson of the rock giants in "Noah.". Chronology of Noah's Time in the Ark. There was obviously a very advanced culture that disappeared some 5 to 7000 years ago. though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the childrenof men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish. 6 After 40 days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark. And when their sons have slain one another, and they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is for ever and ever is consummated. Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. Nice introduction to a topic which can be quite confusing a lot of different rabbit holes and a lot of strange interpretations that seem to stray farther and farther from the simple reading of the text and straightforward analysis of historical texts that reference the event described in Genesis 6. Frequently human rulers are referred to as elohiym, eg, Ex 21:6, Ex 22:8, Ex 22:9. Havent seen Noah in DVD format yet, but I saw another flim that starred the same actor who played Noah. With the premiere of the Hollywood movie, Noah sailing into movie theaters all across the country, crowds are packing the theaters to enjoy this action packed summer blockbuster. 17 And then shall all the righteous escape,And shall live till they beget thousands of children,And all the days of their youth and their old ageShall they complete in peace. Ancient biblical art depicts Noahs ark as a box with legs. 6. The Hebrew word from which we extrapolate GOD from the German word GOTHIC is the generic Hebrew word which is POWERS. Traditions such as Elohim is name for God. In the "Enuma Elish" the Anunnaki gods are assigned by Marduk to their respective sphere of influence, with 300 assigned to the sky and 300 assigned over the earth. Produced probably sometime during the second and first centuries B.C.E. The biggest mistake so many well intentioned people make in trying to understand the Bible is by lifting a few words out of the context into which they are written & then trying to re-insert those words into another part of the Bible that is written in a completely different context, additionally they think inserting pagan Mesopotamian mythology of pre-Noah flood accounts can do the same thing. Noahs life was hard nothing happy about building an ark middle of nowhere. I continually implore you to produce scripture for all these claims you continue to make & you keep ignoring Mark 12:25 and Matt. And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall All the above commentary is pedantic and laborious and far too serious by many who take themselves very seriously. portrayed Noahs ark as a box, often with legs. In Noah's day grace came in the shape of an Ark. Home It was in present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt that the first attempts at plant domestication supported large communities that endured uninterrupted for a long period of time: Enochs father was Jared, whose name means go down and it was believed that it was during his generation when the watchers descended. According to Genesis 6: 15, the ark dimensions were: Length 300 cubits (450 feet), Beam/Width 50 cubits (75 feet), and Depth/Height 30 cubits (45 feet). Believe it or not! Get to an online edition of Strongs Concordance & verify these things for yourself. Referring to your above post. God caused it in order to destroy the wicked people, but he had Noah build an ark to preserve the good people and the animals. The context into which the words are written determine the use of either, in Gen 6:2 the context is human elohyim therefore the sons are of human origin. ..Paul D. Paul D., its possible that the book of Enoch that you call phony may have relied on sources that date back to the 10th century B.C.E. The two become friends and embarked on an expedition for timber (which, according to Gene B.s comment #24 made Gigamesh a nephilim, or feller) and they kill the guardian of the cedar forest which brings a decree from the gods that Enkidu must die. According to Islamic tradition, Allah sent the flood in response to human sins. I coaxed you into the contents of your above statement & VOILA, comes the dawn! While we typically imagine Noah building a ship to carry his family and animals, ancient biblical art depicts the ark as a simple wooden box with legs, as in this well-preserved mosaic floor found at the site of Mopsuestia in Turkey. Rising 50 feet above the surrounding plai, it certainly qualifies as a high place, which the Hebrew Bible so often associates with religious rituals and early encounters with God (Religion at the Dawn of Civilization by Ben Witherington III, BAR, Jan./Feb 2013, p.58). As with any ancient tale, there are numerous theories as to why this cataclysmic event occurred. All the religions around have creation, source of evil and flood stories. I wonder if the Nephillim might be a memory of Neanderthals? Chill out! There is a lot that could be conjectured about how pagan mythology seems to have certain parallels to the Genesis accounts up until the time just before Noahs Flood. And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.
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