Posted on 03/27/2014 7:58:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I still can’t get around Robert Cornuke’s assertion that Genesis 11:2 stipulates that Noah’s descendants journeyed “from the east” or “eastward” (depending on the translation) and settled on a plain in Shinar. Shinar (the plains of Mesopotamia) is due south of Mt. Ararat in Turkey. Also, Genesis describes other mountains around the mountain where the ark landed and Mt. Ararat is a “lonely mountain”. Cornuke made the claim that the ark actually settled in the mountains of northern Irag or Armenia (a k a the land of Urartu”). This has always made sense to me. Besides, nothing in the Bible indicates that that ark is still around today - never understood why folks expected to find it. That’s some old wood, pitch-coated or no.
I think the retold stories are stories of when the glaciers melted and mankind all over the world had to move inland as the waters rose and the land changed. So many populations lived near the waters edge as we do today so it was told and retold, the story of the rainbow was a poetic touch as well.
I think the retold stories are stories of when the glaciers melted and mankind all over the world had to move inland as the waters rose and the land changed. So many populations lived near the waters edge as we do today so it was told and retold, the story of the rainbow was a poetic touch as well.
Review by Randall Price ...
Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
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