The Great Deluge
The Great Deluge
A Brief Overview
Spencer K. Jones
Great Basin College, Course Phil-200
Fall Semester, 2012
Overview
The story of Noah and the Great Flood is one that most of us have heard at one time or another. There are, however, different versions and beliefs based on the source of the story the person hears. I grew up in the LDS church, so the version I grew up with is the one told in the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Basically the story tells of a man, Noah, who was the most righteous man living at a time shortly after the dawn of man. Man had become so wicked that God wanted to destroy everything he had created. But because Noah was righteous, he would save Noah. So he told Noah to build an ark, in which he and his family would live with a number of animals representing all the animals of the world. While living in the ark, God would make it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and flood the entire world, killing everything that existed on land; not only people, but all the plants and animals as well. After building the ark, God had Noah collect one male and one female of all the creatures (beasts, insects, etc.) and seven of the “clean” beasts, and to take them into the ark. Once Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, and all the animals were on board the ark, God made it rain. After it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, the entire world was flooded, and the water was so high that it reached over the tops of the mountains. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. Noah let out a raven first, and then a dove on three more occasions. When he released the dove the second time, the dove returned with an olive branch. The third time the dove was released, it did not return. Then Noah and his family left the ark, and released all the animals. God then created a rainbow as a promise that he would never again flood the earth.
King James Version
A Brief Overview
Spencer K. Jones
Great Basin College, Course Phil-200
Fall Semester, 2012
Overview
The story of Noah and the Great Flood is one that most of us have heard at one time or another. There are, however, different versions and beliefs based on the source of the story the person hears. I grew up in the LDS church, so the version I grew up with is the one told in the King James Version of the Holy Bible.
Basically the story tells of a man, Noah, who was the most righteous man living at a time shortly after the dawn of man. Man had become so wicked that God wanted to destroy everything he had created. But because Noah was righteous, he would save Noah. So he told Noah to build an ark, in which he and his family would live with a number of animals representing all the animals of the world. While living in the ark, God would make it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and flood the entire world, killing everything that existed on land; not only people, but all the plants and animals as well. After building the ark, God had Noah collect one male and one female of all the creatures (beasts, insects, etc.) and seven of the “clean” beasts, and to take them into the ark. Once Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, and all the animals were on board the ark, God made it rain. After it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, the entire world was flooded, and the water was so high that it reached over the tops of the mountains. As the waters receded, the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat. Noah let out a raven first, and then a dove on three more occasions. When he released the dove the second time, the dove returned with an olive branch. The third time the dove was released, it did not return. Then Noah and his family left the ark, and released all the animals. God then created a rainbow as a promise that he would never again flood the earth.
King James Version
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