If it took Noah a hundred years to build his boat, you thinking what I'm thinking?

Question

If it took Noah a hundred years to build his boat, you think maybe the people God was mad at in the first place were dead already?

By the time Noah set sail with his family and millions of smelly animals the whole thing was a moot point, you think?

Wow, a big flood to kill off people who ended up dying of old age anyway.

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Answer 1

How did Methuselah die? At almost 1000 years old, it seems that he died in the year of the flood. He was the grandfather of Noah (according to Hebrew style, there may have been intervening generations), and probably dozens or even hundreds of others.

The "numerical coincidence" that puts his death at or very close to the flood tends to say that the flood impacted quite a few people who were alive when construction began.

Answer 2

If the Bible is to believed, Sodom and Gomorrah folk lived exceptionally long lives to have been wiped out by a flood.

What can we conclude from this?

Simple. The secret to long life is to be a sexual deviant. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go buy a studded d***o.

Answer 3

People lived to be 100's of years back then.  It was not until after the flood that God said that men would only live to be 120.

Answer 4

"you thinking what I'm thinking?"

That he must have used Haliburton as a sub contractor?

Answer 5

Uhhh...Noah was alive for 9 hundred and 50 years, I would think that other people back then lived that long too.

Answer 6

People then lived much longer then they do today. I believe the earth then was like a pressurized hyperbaric oxygen chamber extending the length of life to be much longer then it is today..I also believe there were other factors that did not allow for the earth to receive the full power of the sun.. Things changed to a great degree on earth after the flood greatly decreasing the length of life to what it now is today. Hope that helped...God bless you !

Answer 7

If you do a little googleing on the flood, you won't come across as so ignorant.

Answer 8

That is why that fairy tale of a book is so fun to read.  And the astounding and sad fact is a lot of people believe it to be true.

Answer 9

Logical inconsistency in your argument...

If Noah lived long enough to build that boat (and continued to live for many years after the flood), then it is quite likely that most of his peers...those people you think God wanted to kill because he was mad at them...were still alive as well!  ...and they certainly wouldn't have suddenly started raising their children to be any more pleasing to God than they were!

Of course, I think the real flaw is your perception that God sent the flood to kill people because he was "mad" at them (I won't even address the flaw in thinking there were "millions" of animals).  No doubt he was angry at those people, but it wasn't the "I'm going to pay you back for that" kind of "mad" we experience when someone does something we don't like or that hurts us personally, it is more the righteous anger we experience when when we see someone disobey some form of legitimate authority and it hurts other people.  

For example, contrast the mad desire to punish someone that drove drunk and killed your child (e.g., wanting to beat the pulp out of him) with the righteous anger we feel when we see the same thing happen to someone else (e.g., hoping the court convicts him and puts him away so he can never hurt anyone else again).  

God wasn't mad at those people...he was angry that those people were disobeying his legitimate authority and hurting other people in the process.  But he didn't destroy those people (and the other life on this planet) to satisfy a personal need for revenge...he did it to give us a chance to start over with a population that accepted the legitimate authority of God.

BTW, this explains why so many people throughout history to this day still accept his authority.  In other words, the flood had the desired impact on the human race...it made it possible for a growing number of human beings to yield to the authority of God.  

Matter of perspective...do you think that Adam and Eve were "finished products"?  If so, then why did God allow them to know the difference between good and evil and then dump them on this planet to fend for themselves?  Personally, I view Adam and Eve as raw materials...inputs into a production process that continues to this day.  Stage one put them on this planet to experience the knowledge they gained when they were with God...and the first person born here MURDERED the second because he was angry.  Over time, this early transformation process eventually resulted in a handful of people that were ready for the next stage of the process.  

Time to refit the factory!  Transform the environment of the planet and then put those people in that environment for phase 2.  Keeping in mind that, like Adam and Eve, those people all KNOW that God has ultimate authority over this planet (after all, they watched him reshape it from the safety of the ark!). This time, the wisdom and experience they gained prior to the flood gave them something that allowed them to have far more success at creating a much larger number of human beings that are able to enter the next stage of the process.  

Simple fact...if God is who he says he is, then he created us to reflect his image...and I'm convinced that no human being comes close to doing that yet...after all, we're still in the factory so he clearly has more work to do before HE will consider us a "finished product".    

Answer 10

If you add up all your reincarnations you may reach that, but not sure our species is built to live so long in one body. Perhaps they weren't human.

Answer 11

Lifespans were 800 and 900 years. The target was Mankind, not individual men.

Answer 12

He made them live longer then, so he could punish em good.

Answer 13

Who said it took him a hundred years? And what proof do you have that a year was 365 days in that time? How do we even know how long one day was back then?

Answer 14

noah was like 928 when he died

Answer 15

noah lived to be around 500 years old, and anyways it was the point god was making in the bible or whatever... haha

Answer 16

No, I am thinking "what a stupid story, I bet there is a bunch of dufus' who will say well it is perfectly feasible for a man to live for the best part of a millenium" without a dot of evidence to show in favour of themselves.