Comments on: Room for the penitent on the ark? https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/ Thought-provoking commentary on life, politics, religion and social issues. Wed, 09 May 2007 01:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: ltbugaf https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-28290 Wed, 09 May 2007 01:12:08 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-28290 I wonder how literally to interpret the term “wall” of water, just as I wonder how literally to interpret the whole story. Some have suggested that the flood destroyed that portion of the earth that was known to Noah, and to man, at the time, and that such a portion might have been rather small. I don’t know; I’m open to these ideas and others. On the other hand, I don’t want to put too much faith in my own incredulity: Is the idea of a great flood, with a huge variety of life being preserved in an ark, any more implausible than the idea of a man being executed by crucifixion, lying dead in a tomb and then rising on the third day? Is it any more implausible than the idea of a woman being healed merely by reaching out and touching the hem of a rabbi’s garment? Because I believe in miracles, I don’t rule out the idea that the flood happened exactly as Genesis says in every detail.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-25257 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:22:35 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-25257 I don’t think anyone is saying there was no flood. There is doubt there was a global flood, but not necessarily that there was no flood at all.

]]> By: Pewsitter https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-25254 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:19:58 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-25254 Since there was no flood, what was the reason the story about Noah was made up and put into the Bible? Was it to make Abraham and his children special perhaps?

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-25246 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:52:23 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-25246 loretta
If the people in Noah’s time would have repented. There would not have been any flood.

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-25055 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:49:11 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-25055 I have no idea how correct the interpretation is.

]]> By: Pewsitter https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-24969 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 02:39:39 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-24969 Frozen Red Sea sounds like a drink.

Kim Siever said: “There is no indication in the scriptures that the wind was still blowing when the Israelites crossed the sea bottom.”

Are you suggesting the LDS picture is a correct representation and the LDS church wants us to believe that two 40 foot walls of water stood there by themselves?

]]> By: rick https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-24897 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:41:37 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-24897 Maybe the water was frozen?

Can anyone rule out the Frozen Red Sea Theory?

]]> By: Kim Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-24894 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:29:06 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-24894 There is no indication in the scriptures that the wind was still blowing when the Israelites crossed the sea bottom.

]]> By: Pewsitter https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-24842 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:28:28 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-24842 The question becomes how high were the walls of water? The picture portrays in my humble opinion a wall forty to fifty feet high with a narrow passage. The wind to hold that much water would be a Cat 5 Hurricane.

I remember one time while I was in Europe I was by the seashore on a bay and the bay was full of boats, during the night all the water left the bay and all of the boats were sitting on dry ground. I could see the ocean on both sides and an land in front of me. I came back that afternoon and the bay was filled with water and all the boats were floating again. It was pretty windy that day. I could have walked across the bay but not in the afternoon.

I believe God works within the laws of nature. Is it wrong to mislead people with pictures as opposed to being accurate?

]]> By: Mary Siever https://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/comment-page-1/#comment-24730 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:53:14 +0000 http://www.ourthoughts.ca/2007/03/14/room-for-the-penitent-on-the-ark/#comment-24730 Pewsitter

Before they entered, it took several hours (overnight) for the walls of water to be formed. But they did travel on dry ground and with walls of water as Kim reference.

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