JehovahsWitness wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:01 pm
Tcg wrote: ↑Thu Nov 18, 2021 6:41 pm
Even before building the ark God tells Noah exactly who would be boarding the ark and it is limited to Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. There is no provision for any others.
God certainly announced his intentions to flood the earth and wipe out that wicked generation. His command to Noah and his family however did not include instructions to keep others from joining him and his family in the construction.
No such instructions were necessary because god had already said:
Genesis 6:5-7
5 The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time. 6 The Lord was sorry that he had made people on the earth. It made him very sad in his heart. 7 So the Lord said:
“I will destroy all the people I created on the earth. I will destroy every person and every animal and everything that crawls on the earth. And I will destroy all the birds in the air, because
I am sorry that I have made them.”
...... [OOPS! god made a mistake
]
FURTHERMORE:
Genesis 6:13
13 So God said to Noah, “Everyone has filled the earth with anger and violence. So I will destroy all living things. I will remove them from the earth. 14 Use cypress wood and build a boat for yourself. Make rooms in the boat and cover it with tar inside and out.
There is no record of God commanding Noah to prohibit others from boarding the vessel.
Nope. None was necessary because all the others were all doomed to die. God had even said so.
The Ark's God ordained massive proportions meant were more than enough room for many others had they have wanted to join Noah
Yeah, sure.
"About 8.7 million (give or take 1.3 million) is the new, estimated total number of species on Earth -- the most precise calculation ever offered -- with 6.5 million species on land and 2.2 million in oceans. Announced by the Census of Marine Life, the figure is based on a new analytical technique. The number of species on Earth had been estimated previously at 3 million to 100 million.
source
And having to double, say 85% of those 8.7 million individuals to account for the mating requirements, Noah and family would be looking at about 16 million individuals to house and feed---just think of all the food that would have to be stowed on board, YIKES!. . . . . . . . . "
Enough room for many others"! Give me a break here.
and there is no record of God prohibiting others from also building arks had they have taken to heart divine warnings.
Of course not, because as I've shown, god had no intentions on leaving anyone around to build other arks.
“I will destroy all the people I created on the earth." Half constructed arks or not.
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