The story of Noah and the Great Flood is sometimes questioned of whether or not it really happened. Some people who take the Bible literally believe that, with the grace of God, Noah was able to accomplish this task and this event really did occur. Others, who take some of the stories from the Bible as a symbol for something else, do not believe that this really happened. They may believe that God was trying to tell us something through this story. The story of Noah and the Great Flood is an issue that historians and theologians have been studying and debating over for many years, and more years to come.
The story of Noah and the flood is basically the second story of creation. The world was turning to evil, so God trusted the only faithful man left on Earth to ride the flood on an ark. (Boadt, 123) he told Noah to build an ark, which was made of gopher wood. After he built the ark, God instructed Noah to get two animals of every kind, one male and one female, and load them......
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