Noah's 500

[duxrow]

Gen1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (IN FLOOD STAGE PRIOR TO THIS..)

2Pet3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

"Letter of the law killeth, but the spirit giveth life".. 2Cor3:6 -- So let us not quibble about the extent of the perishing...OK?

Will have to check later on your catholic, garbage, and numbers comments...

[Richard Amiel McGough]

Gen1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (IN FLOOD STAGE PRIOR TO THIS..)

2Pet3:6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

Uh ... did you notice that the Third Day happened after the supposed gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 in which the first "deluge" supposedly happened?

Your attempt to force-fit the idea of a deluge in a gap simply doesn't work. The text says:

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water [after Day 3], 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water [the flood of Noah].

Obviously, the text is not talking about events that preceded the third day. And besides, Peter mentions Noah in the same letter just a few verses earlier:

2 Peter 2:5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly;

The "ancient world" refers to the world at the time of Noah, just as the "heavens were of old" and the "world that then existed" refer to the world at the time of Noah.

I am constantly mystified by what motivates people to make up stuff and then believe it as if it were being taught in the Bible.

"Letter of the law killeth, but the spirit giveth life".. 2Cor3:6 -- So let us not quibble about the extent of the perishing...OK?

Your comment is a non-sequitur.

Will have to check later on your catholic, garbage, and numbers comments...

Sounds good.

[duxrow]

Tks, Richard. I have done teaching on the three Arks being ‘boats’, so adding the Virgin Mary was repulsive at first (not wanting to include her as a boat, even if she hadn’t yet broken water. Ha. As I said, that was the first I’d heard of a 4th Ark.

Further reflection, how that first Ark carried animals and family, and the second Ark just baby-Moses, I was reminded how they were ‘containers’ as well as ‘boats’, and Mary qualifies for that by being a container of the baby Jesus. Like the 3rd Ark being a container of the Tablets, the Manna, and the Rod that budded.

That first Ark (the floating barge or barn), and the second (seagoing baby buggy) traveled on water, but the 3rd (Testimony) was built in the desert (long way from the water..) Now suppose I’ll need to modify my 3-Arks page to include Mary. Or maybe just leave it to the catholics.