So where is Noah’s ark? Is there any chance this wooden structure has endured these thousands of years, high up on a mountain range somewhere? It would be pretty extraordinary if it had. Given the situation and time that's passed, it seems more likely that the ark would have been disassembled to build a post-flood city, or simply lost to decomposition.
Yet the case is certainly not closed. Two prevailing theories on the location of the ark suggest that it is most likely in one of two locations in modern day Turkey:
1.) Encased in ice atop Mt. Ararat, or
2.) Petrified on a mountain range adjacent to Ararat
If you’d like to dig further, you can check out an article with photographs HERE.
Question: How significant would it be if the ark was actually found? Would this have any impact on your faith?
Reuben Smith
Faith... believing without seeing... No arc to touch... To find the arc today would indeed increase our doubting Thomas kind of faith, but I like the fact that I just believe. The rainbow is enough proof that the story is real, that our faith is real, that God's promise is real. Blessed are those who did not need to touch His scarred hands to believe...What about scientific proof? Yeah, perhaps our faith would increase if we found the petrified arc and could actually carbon-age it!
ReplyDeleteI Do not believe that finding the Arc would increase my personal faith in God. I clearly see God in so many ways today, I don't need proof from the past. God lives in me today, provides answers to my prayers, performs miracles time and time again, and fills the void I once had in my heart.
ReplyDeleteIf the Arc was found; I do believe this could help bring the "show me the proof" person, to maybe take a closer look at God. Yet, after the scientist find a way "to account for the find" we will be back to the same place we were before the Arc was found.
It’s interesting to be able to prove the existence of the ark of the bible.
ReplyDeleteSome people are like doubting Thomas, they have to see the evidence before they can believe. I was wondering who would kill Cain in Genesis 4, since they were the first human alive or were there other beings out side the Garden of Eden? What about the Nephilim or the sons of gods in Genesis 6 who were they?
Thoughts I remember from other people:
ReplyDelete1. There are some things that God wants us to know by faith. Scientific proof allows one to believe without faith and can be the opposite of faith. Maybe God doesn't want the Ark found.
2. People can still ignore absolute proof. How many people looked Jesus right in the face when he lived on Earth, and still did not believe?
3. About the question of who killed Abel: Also, where did the wives come from? Adam and Eve lived hundreds of years. They probably had a lot more children who were not mentioned in Genesis. Genesis says that Eve would be the mother of all the living, so they all had to be related.
Long shot: the Nephilim were the unnatural offspring of a union between angels and people - and one reason for a worldwide flood. Clearly giants of some sort. Beyond that, anybody's guess.
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