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Noah's Flood

For this reason God is going to wipe them out and he chose a worldwide flood to take out mankind.
             We know God's reasoning for taking out the human race with a flood. The human race at that time was evil and wicked. So God chooses to create a flood that in the Biblical narrative says that it was a flood that covered the whole globe, "The waters rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered" (Gen. 7:19). According to this passage, you can see the Bible clearly states the flood covered the whole earth. The debate that has gone on forever about whether this was a worldwide flood or a localized flood that wiped out all of humankind in the particular area. There are good arguments for both and I think one who is going to be a biblical scholar should know both sides of the argument and try to come to a conclusion for themselves.
             It seems there must have been a big catastrophic event that caused something significant to happen because when going through history of the early civilizations you find most of them have some sort of devastating deluge in their history. The most well recognized story outside the biblical account is the Gilgamesh epic. There are striking similarities in this story as to the one in the biblical account . One cannot help but wonder where these accounts of a worldwide flood originated. There has to have been an event that lead to an oral tradition because most of all the early civilizations have a story that includes a worldwide flood.
             With things such as this one then must wonder if the biblical account was written first and the other accounts learned from this, or if the biblical account was written after people knew of the other traditions. Whatever or whenever the account was written you need to understand why it was written. If one is to take a literal approach to the Bible then you would agree that the flood covered the whole earth and the only things that survived would be what was in the ark.


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1. Flood Story of Noah

However, Noah came into God's good graces for his righteousness. ... At the end of the flood, Noah sent out a dove, who returned with an olive branch to show good news of the lands drying. ... The flood stories of Noah and Gilgamesh have many similarities. ... The flood story shows God's mercy and understanding of humans. ... Its representation comes from Noah's dove returning to him with an olive branch which told of the floods drying. ...

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2. One Flood Compared to Another ( Gilgamesh and Noah)

People began to think that the story of Noah and the Great Flood was not the first (Gilgamesh p.16). ... Moses wrote the story of Noah and the "Great Flood", it is unknown who wrote Gilgamesh. ... As for Noah and the "Great Flood" story there is only one God and he gives his blessing to Noah at the very beginning. God is the one that tells Noah in a dream about the flood to come, and what to do as far as building an ark. ... Utnapishtim and Noah both survive the flood and their gods, or God blessed them both. ...

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3. Genesis and the Story of Noah

A common explanatory framework for understanding the story of Noah's flood is skepticism toward the narrative's Hebraic origin. ... The story of the flood ends with Noah sacrificing a burnt offering to the LORD. ... It follows, then, that Noah offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving and consecration after the flood rather than one of atonement. ... Considering the consistency of God's character and demands for atonement, Noah's being justified before the post-flood sacrifice must presuppose a previous sacrifice. ... The post-flood sacrifice in the Gilgamesh epic gives us ...

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4. The Epic of Gilgamesh Flood Account vs. The Genesis Flood Ac

The first one is very evident, which is both Noah and Utnapishtim both have to build a great boat because both know of a flood that is coming. ... The Epic of Gilgamesh tells how Utnapishim takes with him on the arch his whole clan (T.XI col.II), which is also true of the Biblical account of the Flood, Noah takes with him his wife, his son's and his son's wives (Gen. 7:13). ... Once the flood has ended both of the boats hit mountains and are secured, Noah then sends a raven to look for dry land as does Utnapishim, both use this tactic to see if they can get out the arch. ... In th...

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5. Noah And The Flood

The Great Flood or Just Scattered Showers? ... The Ark had to be strong enough to survive the open seas during a catastrophic raging flood. ... Then after the Flood, Noah apparently forgot how he had solved these problems--no ship of similar size would be built for another 40 centuries" (Flank). ... How was Noah able to stop the animals from eating one another? ... Further logical inconsistencies are revealed when considering the story of Noah's Ark such as the source of where the water for the Flood came from. ...

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6. Flood Comparison

The Chaldean Flood Tablets, spawned from the city of Ur (Southern Iraq), depicts how the Babylonian God, Ea (a god who took part in the creation of man), rendered "the end of all flesh." ... God chose a righteous man named Noah to carry on the human race after The Great Flood. ... In contrast, Noah was forewarned directly through the instructions of God. ... Utnapishtim and Noah individually sent two birds to find dry land with no avail. ... Likewise, the God of Noah promised to never do it again....

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7. Gilgamesh vs. Genesis: Parallels of the Flood

Both sources include a tale of a great flood that was to clear the earth of its inhabitants. ... Noah releases a raven and three doves to search for land. ... The most obvious discrepancy is the duration of the flood. ... Following the flood Noah is given the task to proliferate life back onto the Earth, however Utnapishtim is granted eternal life. Obviously, there is a striking relation between the two accounts of the flood. ...

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8. Similarties Of The Epic Of Gilgamesh And Noah And The Flood

Isn't it ironic how from two completely different origins The Story of the Flood, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Noah and the Flood, from Genesis (Hebrew Bible), are stories that come together resulting in the same over-all characteristics? ... The Greek and Hebrew higher powers were angered and in an attempt to save what was good on earth, Ea, God of Wisdom (Greek), and the Hebrew God communicated to the mortals, Gilgamesh and Noah, a plan to restore their righteous ways and escape what was to be a great flood. ... These instructions given to Gilgamesh and Noah are identical. ... Gilg...

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9. The Two Great Floods

Such as the reasons for each of the floods. ... And this was Noah, one of the final men who still lived a life to God's liking. ... So Yahweh came to Noah and told him of his decision: ""I have made up my mind to obliterate all flesh from the earth. ... (OT 12) Yahweh goes on to tell Noah to bring two of each animal and Noah's family on board. ... Noah had done as Yahweh told him and as Yahweh said: "For forty days the deluge on earth continued."...

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