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Virginia Man To Search For Noah's Ark In Turkey
FOX News ^ | February 2, 2009 | Associated Press

Posted on 06/28/2009 5:17:15 AM PDT by Fennie

Saddened by the wickedness of man, God directs the righteous Noah to build an ark for his family and two of each species of animal.

Together, they ride the ark through 40 days and 40 nights of torrential rains that God unleashes upon the Earth. And when the waters subside, Noah and the animals return to land.

"That seems almost like a fairy story," said archaeologist Randall Price, who is director of Liberty University's new Center for Judaic Studies. "But we believe it was an actual event."

This summer Price, 57, plans to continue on a journey to prove just that as he joins an expedition to Mount Ararat. His team believes that it is there, in Eastern Turkey, where Noah's Ark remains preserved underneath layers of rubble and ice.

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To: mel
My as teacher says it never happened

ok

21 posted on 06/28/2009 6:20:31 AM PDT by jla
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To: savedbygrace

I thought it was in Job, my favorite New Testement book. (snicker)


22 posted on 06/28/2009 6:22:26 AM PDT by Harrius Magnus (LIBERALS: We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.)
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To: Harrius Magnus

????


23 posted on 06/28/2009 6:27:57 AM PDT by savedbygrace (You are only leading if someone follows. Otherwise, you just wandered off... [Smokin' Joe])
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To: savedbygrace; Harrius Magnus
"????"

Yep -- we get some really thoughtful commenters here...

24 posted on 06/28/2009 6:42:51 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...!!)
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To: The Anti-One

Luke 16:

27”And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father’s house—

28for I have five brothers—in order that he may (G)warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

29”But Abraham said, ‘They have (H)Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’

30”But he said, ‘No, (I)father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’

31”But he said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”


25 posted on 06/28/2009 6:43:50 AM PDT by uptoolate (Primaries mean something - Conservative means Conservative)
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To: Fennie

Wait. Didn’t I see this on Leonard Nimoy’s “In Search Of” in the early 1980s?


26 posted on 06/28/2009 6:46:45 AM PDT by beagleone
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To: Fennie

If Noah’s Ark is found on this mountain I believe the Koran is proven wrong. And if the Ark of the Covenant is discovered in Ethiopia to be real then the Koran is proven wrong as well. The Holy War continues and the Christians WILL triumph. God bless us all.


27 posted on 06/28/2009 6:53:26 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan ("Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.")
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To: Ezekiel

Are those Noah’s kids? Which one’s Ham?


28 posted on 06/28/2009 6:57:33 AM PDT by a_Turk (Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, Justice)
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To: FreeManWhoCan
From the link in 18.

Still, perhaps God has a hand in all of this. At the University of Erzurum (located 150 miles W of Mt. Ararat), an Islamic scholar told Robin Simmons, one ark explorer: "The Ark is a bomb in the world!" He explained that there is widespread belief in the region that the revelation of the Ark will be a sign that Mohammed is returning to purge the earth of all the heretics in a holy war. Then all true believers will go to heaven in a restored Golden Ark. Perhaps we should all be glad that the Ark has not been more "discovered" than it has. The truth is out there for those who earnestly want to search for it and find it. So it often seems to be God's way.

29 posted on 06/28/2009 6:57:53 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Fennie
Ok, let's assume that the flood happened, Noah built an ark and it came to rest on the famed Mt. Ararat. This happened way before Christ was born, many thousands of years ago. It is rare to find boats that we know for a fact were there. Viking boats, boats around the various body of waters in the middle east, in time periods a lot shorter than the one concerning the Ark. In all the thousands of those boats very, very few survived to this day. The Ark was only one boat and it rotted away a long time ago.

What makes any one with any knowledge of wood at all think there is any trace of the ark left after all this time? Let's say some bits and pieces are still there, a few pegs(no nails)and some wood bits, maybe petrified, how will they determine these scraps belonged to the Ark?

My scenario for the Ark? 150 years after the flood some poor farmer was searching for firewood and came upon the remains of a boat where one shouldn't be, not being familiar with the story of the flood, he cut it up and took it home and used it to cook meals and heat his hut. Lasted him for 3 or 4 winters.

Hey, my version of what happened to it is just as plausible as thinking anything is left of it after all this time!

30 posted on 06/28/2009 7:04:00 AM PDT by calex59
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To: Fennie

In the Bible, the Jews were lost in the desert for 40 years.

They kept walking in a circle around the same mountain, failing to notice it was always the ‘same’ mountain.

The mountain was not the point of the story.

In the Bible, Noah built the Ark to protect his family and the animals from drowning.

The point of the story was not the Ark itself. Why do we search so intensely for the ARK, yet ignore the point of the story?


31 posted on 06/28/2009 7:04:11 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: UCANSEE2
Why do we search so intensely for the ARK, yet ignore the point of the story?

Because the Bible isn't just Aesop's Fables.

32 posted on 06/28/2009 7:32:51 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: UCANSEE2
The point of the story was not the Ark itself.
Exactly. And we could add the Holy Grail, the Cross, etc. Those are things that get in the way of the Message.
33 posted on 06/28/2009 7:33:07 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: TXnMA; savedbygrace; Harrius Magnus

A lib/dem politician said that during a presidential run (I forget which). I think Harrius was mocking that pol.


34 posted on 06/28/2009 7:38:31 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Clara Lou

I agree with you to a point. Sometimes archaeological proofs get people’s attention long enough for them to hear the message.


35 posted on 06/28/2009 7:39:01 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: SouthDixie

Turkey is mostly Islamic and would not be agreeable to anything that would be remotely be considered ‘Jewish’ or ‘Christian’.

They would probably consider the Arks discovery more supportive of Jewish/Christtian theology than Islamic theology and therefore a threat to their culture.


36 posted on 06/28/2009 7:43:54 AM PDT by dglang
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To: bgill

During the cold war, Russia was very concerned about people being on those mountains because they (Russia) had a major military site located on the other side.

There was pressure from Russia on Turkey to keep people off the mountain.

In Fact, during an overflight by U.S. intelligence, photos were taken of something large near the top of the mountain.

There is another site on ‘the mountains of Ararat’ being endorsed by Anchorstone.org as being the site of the Arks landing. That site is accompanied by large ‘Drogue’ or anchor stones with some of the stones being marked with crosses.

There is a history in the second area of that being known as the location where Noah and his family settled after the Ark landed.


37 posted on 06/28/2009 7:53:46 AM PDT by dglang
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To: UCANSEE2
I don't NEED for the Ark to be found to believe the Bible account. I BELIEVE the Bible but I WANT the Ark to be found just simply because I want to see it. I love to see things that are still here from ancient times, like the ruins of the pueblos in New Mexico and the pyramids in Egypt, castles in Europe even plantations in the southern US.

That is the only way I can explain myself. I hope that the Shroud of Turin is real just because it would please me to know that something like that was kept since Jesus Christ was wrapped in it. I do not in any way NEED for the Shroud to be real to believe in Jesus and His Crucifixion.

38 posted on 06/28/2009 7:55:27 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: DJ MacWoW

And I agree with you to a point. To find the remains of biblical archeological sites lends credibility for those who doubt. To find a chalice or piece of wood the origin of which will always be arguable is of limited value. The Shroud of Turin is an example.


39 posted on 06/28/2009 8:06:34 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou
Did you read the stuff in the link at 18? Interesting.

God spoke through a burning bush and a donkey. I tend not to limit how he gets someones attention. If it only changes one mind, the angels will rejoice with the Shepherd.

40 posted on 06/28/2009 8:28:12 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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