You know how you hear a bible story over and over so many times that it becomes second nature. You tend to repeat it, with out a second thought. You never question the validity, you trust that the preacher is telling you the truth.

I am guilty of this as well. I got up really early and went to Bible study before school and had heard and read the Noah's Arc story 9 trillion times and yet I just learned that what I knew was rubbish.

We are all familiar with Genesis 6 19-20
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

This story is surely a fable. How could a 600 hundred year old man, build a ship big enough to hold two of EVERYTHING. Let alone be trapped with it for 40 days and 40 nights and everyone and everything make it out alive.

This ship would have had to be ginormous right? Well, it would be eclipsed by the Arc he would have had to build in order to follow the exact orders he was given.

When we look at Genesis 7 more closely, we find that the size of the Arc would have had to be astronomical, especially based on the time and location. It would have needed to be visible from space.
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

First, lets tackle the age issue. We can only barely make it our of the hundreds, and we have Antibiotics, snake venom, vitamins, clean water, and actual food. We have artificial limbs, walkers, wheelchairs. Yet, I am to believe a dessert dweller lived to be 950 years old and at 600 was spry enough to build a skyscraper of a boat?

Now we all now the song
God told Noah there's going to be a floodie, floodie
God told Noah there's going to be a floodie, floodie,
Get those animals out of the muddie, muddie
Children of the Lord.

God told Noah to build him an arky, arky
God told Noah to build him an arky, arky
Build it out of gopher barky, barky
Children of the Lord.

The animals, they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies,
The animals, they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies,
Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies,
Children of the Lord.

It rained, it rained for forty nights and daysies, daysies,
It rained, it rained for forty nights and daysies, daysies,
Almost drove poor Noah crazy, crazy,
Children of the Lord.

Well, Genesis 7 has quite a different equation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

This means that he will need to collect 7 pairs or 14 individual representatives of every species. So if you think the Arc was big at twosies, imagine how big it would need to be at fourteensies. Lyons and Tigers and Bear oh my.. indeed

The bible says the Arc shall measure -- And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. In Inches - If you accept that Noah's value for a cubit is 20.3 inches, the ark was over 507 feet long, almost 85 feet wide and almost 51 feet tall.

To put that into terms we can relate to. A football field measures Length: 360 feet or 120 yards
Width: 160 feet or 53 1/3 yards. So the Arc was only half the width of a field and 1 1/2 times the length. Is that big enough for Fouteensies?

The story becomes even more unbelievable, when you take into account the directions for clean and not clean.

When we look at Genesis 5 5-7 We see that the Lord found his own creation repulsive and therefore decided to destroy it, including the beasts.

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.


If you have an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, why don't you. If your purpose it to start fresh, why give orders to include, what you know to be unclean.

Later in the Bible, Leviticus to be exact, God will list all the unclean animals that we are not to eat as they are unclean or abominations. If you are all knowing, and you know they are unclean and will need to point them out as such, why even bring them in to the New. Why destroy the old to make the new just like the old. Seems like, you may have set yourself and mankind up for failure again.

The original set up failure was Eden. If everything is "perfect" and you want it to be perfect and last forever, then why put the tree of life within reach. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Seriously, who needed a tree of knowledge? You are god, you already have all the knowledge there is. For whom did you create the tree? There were no people, so there was no need for that tree to exist. Seems like a design fail.

This goof is often blamed on the serpent, but you must take responsibility for your own actions. Serpent didn't put the tree there, nor give the original order of temptation. You tell them how awesome the tree is, how much knowledge you will gain, and show them where the tree is, and then double dog dare them not too.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

When examined closely the Arc story is nothing but that, a story. Can this story teach anything?

I think it can. I think it tells us that the author of this book was as high as Cheech and Chong. That desert heat causes hallucinations and that the math back then was horrendous.

But, seriously......

At any time you can also take an account of your life, and make necessary changes and start fresh.