The one thing you have to ask yourself is what do you believe and why do you believe it? Then, test your beliefs. Is there any REAL evidence to support what you believe?
I believe The Bible. There is evidence to support it, and I will get into that a lot more later…. But first, Creation #1.
God created the heavens and the Earth.
Three heavens – the air we breathe, “outer space,” and God’s “residence”
Within 6 days, He created everything we can see – the sky, the Sun, all planets and stars, fish, plants, water, birds, worms, man, etc.
Not everyone believes the same about all of this, but, there is scientific evidence that this is a high probability….
I believe the all the land was connected. This is one answer to how there are fossils of man and animals all over the world.
We know that there is water under the Earth – we drill holes for water wells.
Before the flood, the ice ring protected life from harmful rays from the Sun. There was a higher atmospheric pressure on the Earth, and the air had a high humidity and it did not rain, but everything needing water got it from the air, lakes, rivers, or other sources. There was also a higher level of oxygen throughout all the air.
Because of the atmosphere and hyperbaric situation, healing was quick and growth was amazing and everything lived longer than we do today. Birds, insects, worms, people, and all animals grew to much larger sizes than we see now. Reptiles grew to immense sizes and that is what the “dinosaurs” were.
At the time of the flood, the waters from under the Earth burst out – creating tectonic plates, moving land masses – water was hot and under pressure – it rose high enough to hit the ice ring around the Earth and caused it to fall apart and rain or fall onto the Earth. It could be that the volcanos we know of today were the main vents where water came out. Much of the movement of the land masses cause crashes and mountains were formed where the land was pressured together.
For the flood, Noah spent 100 years building the Ark. He and his 3 sons were the main workers and they may have had help from others – the Bible never specifies that. He also may have used animals to move timbers.
This is a picture of Noah’s Ark – well, one end of it…after around 4,000 years of weathering…
So, here is a question – what happened to all the water that was part of the flood? Once again, there are differing opinions, some backed with scientific facts. I believe a mixture of things… I believe God raised up the land to be above the waters, and, based on some science, I believe a large asteroid may have hit the Earth, knocking it off it’s North/South poles, giving a wobble that causes parts to be colder than ever before. It caused an almost instant freeze, which caused some animals, and possibly people, to be frozen in an upright position.
Also, during the flood, the waters were moving around a lot. The violence of the water bursting through the ground and ice falling from the sky, there was a great force and the Earth was still rotating. This caused many layers of sand/gravel to separate and some to gather in various places, and the pressure from the flood waters turned things into rock, coal, and other things very rapidly.
Also, by God raising up the land to allow the waters to recede, there was some drainage – the Grand Canyon is a good showing of this. A lot of waterfalls also show this, such as the Niagara Falls.
Noah was given either instructions or knowledge that he needed something to keep the Ark stabilized while the flood was raging on. The Ark, according to the Bible, rested in “the mountains of Ararat.” This is in the eastern edge of Turkey. There have been several people who have claimed they saw the Ark. Ron Wyatt found Noah’s Ark. I say this not just because he said he found it, but he tested and investigated and found a lot of evidence in the area. Ron also found drogue stones. These were large boulders with holes in them, where a rope would go to tie it to a boat. As the water deepens, more rope is let out, but the stones keep the boat steady in the water.
Ever since the flood, the ice canopy is gone, oxygen levels dropped, barometric pressure dropped, and life expectancy has been dropping. This affects all life. Kent Hovind came up with a chart showing the lifespan of several Bible named people. The Bible tells how old their father was when they were born and how old he was when he died. It makes it pretty easy to figure it out, but Dr. Hovind’s chart takes all the work out of it for you. https://vanderwolf.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/longevitychart.pdf
I, along with many others, believe the Bible’s ancestral information is there for a simple reason. To tell us how old the Earth is. It is pretty well known that the radiometric and other forms of “dating” rocks and fossils has been proven inaccurate. Why come up with a tool when God tells us how old the Earth is in His Word? According to the Bible and other scientific documents, Jesus was on the Earth around 2,000 years ago. The flood happened roughly 2,000 years before Jesus’ human time. Roughly 2,000 (1866) years before that, God created the heavens and the Earth. That makes the Earth roughly 6000 years old… The Bible talks about the 1,000 year reign of Christ after His return to Earth. There are lots of sevens in the Bible… 7,000 years?
There are many people who laugh at my beliefs. That is OK with me, but they really have issues… I am not smarter than they are, I just have had my eyes opened to The Truth.
Here are a few verses from the ONLY scientific textbook that has never been proven untrue, but has always been proven true:
- Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? (1 Corinthians 1:20)
- For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. (1 Corinthians 3:19)
- The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. Psalms 14:1)
- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7)
- Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (Romans 1:22)
As a note…fools despise wisdom and instruction. Do you think wisdom comes from anything that says everything came from nothing and there was no intelligent design, meaning a designer, or Creator, or God?
They say there is no God because they are afraid to realize that there is also a hell.
Now, just to be sure…. Not every Christian believes the same for everything. Some things are not specified in the Bible and some things are in multiple locations in the Bible, and some people want to add their own reasons of why things are written as they were.
These people tend to share my opinions and I got some of the ideas from them: Ron Wyatt, Ken Hamm, Carl Baugh, and Kent Hovind. The late Dr. Walter Martin was also an excellent instructor of Biblical history and facts.
Ron Wyatt did a lot of exploring in Israel and throughout the Middle East. He has made some amazing discoveries and has videos that cover them. Some of them include Noah’s Ark, the crossing of the Red Sea, the camp of the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea, Mount Sinai, the rock where God gave the Israelites water, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Ark of The Covenant, and more. There is a museum in Cornersville, TN, that displays much of his findings.
Dr. Carl Baugh is a researcher who created the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, TX. This man has found so many fossils and has proven in more ways than one can imagine, that the Biblical account of creation and the flood are not just possible, but can be proven. He gives many lectures in many educational facilities and has found human footprints next to dinosaur footprints as well as dinosaur footprints that appear to be following human footprints.
Ken Ham heads up an organization called Answers In Genesis. He has built a “replica” of Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter in northwest Kentucky and a nearby Creation Museum. Ken speaks around the world for Creation and The Bible. He has done about as much as anyone can to make you feel like you are actually in Noah’s Ark.
Kent Hovind has a place in Lenox, Alabama, called Dinosaur Adventure Land. He has made several videos regarding creation, dinosaurs, the age of the earth, how we can know that the Bible is true, and the garden of Eden, among others. He has had hundreds of debates. He has been attacked so many times by athiests, that I believe he is going too far, belittling people instead of really attacking their questions. Kent and I have a few differences of opinion, especially when it comes to the time of the Rapture.
Heavenly Father, thank You for giving us Your Word to explain Your Truth to us. Help us all to get a deeper love and understanding of You and Your Son. Amen.