Today's devonational are collection of articles about the flood and Noah's Ark. I hope you will fine them useful in your search for God's truth.
1) The First "Ancient Mariner"
The original story of "The Ancient Mariner"
was written several centuries before the "The
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" was added to
our literature. The story of Noah and the Ark is
loved and appreciated by multitudes who have
never gone to sea, or taken an ocean voyage.---Gospel Minutes
Read therest of the article here: http://www.wfcoc.org/WFCoC/Minutes_2009_files/gm050809.pdf
2) God's Judgment - The Flood
We will not be able to cover every event of the Bible in this study, but one story that we cannot overlook is the account of the great flood that God sent on the wicked world of Noah's day.
FROM ADAM TO NOAH
About 1,600 years after God made Adam and Eve the world had become so wicked most of the people on the earth were disobeying God. In this wicked world lived one righteous man with his family. He was Noah. Because the world was so evil, God determined to destroy all the evil people and save Noah and his family.( read the rest of this article on: http://www.tftw2.org/BCC/courses/bcc_ibs_l4.html
3) The Rainbow – God’s Covenant With The World
Mike Riley In Genesis 9:15-16, God told Noah and his sons, "And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."The rainbow is a beautiful token of the Lord that continues to testify of the covenant that He made with the world and all flesh (Genesis 9:11-13). It is a perfect reminder of our Lord’s protection and the keeping of His promises. In 2 Peter 3:3-6, Peter speaks of scoffers of the word who, in the last days, will deny the creation and the flood. This has most assuredly begun. In just the past one hundred and fifty years, creation has been mocked by many and replaced by theories of inorganic evolution and spontaneous generation. The flood has been denied as a universal event and is affirmed to be nothing more than a legendary story of oral tradition that has made its way into the holy Scriptures. The testimony of both creation and the flood has been forgotten by many in the world. Reflections about the rainbow sign have also been corrupted. Some people now view it as a symbol of homosexual pride and gay "rights." This "view" shows total disrespect to the Creator who designed sexual relationships to be in marriage between male and female (Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2; cf. Matthew 19:4). To corrupt the symbol of His covenant by associating with such a despicable and ungodly manner of life is purely vile and disgraceful.Even though man might forget the promise God gave through the rainbow, the Lord has not forgotten. He is not slack concerning His promises, and He will follow through with them. Our Lord is longsuffering, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). He will save those who serve Him just as He will surely destroy those who are disobedient (2 Thessalonians 1:3-10; cf. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18). God’s rainbow should cause us to appreciate the surety of His promises (Hebrews 6:10-19; cf. Romans 15:8; 2 Corinthians 1:20).The Preacher files.com: http://preachersfiles.com/the-rainbow-gods-covenant-with-the-world/
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4) Dinosaurs, Creation, Evolution, and the Flood
Does the existence of dinosaurs conflict with the Bible teaching about Creation and the Flood? Actually, there is no reason why dinosaurs would need to be specifically mentioned in the Bible (though some people believe they are referred to in certain passages in Job and elsewhere). There are many other animals that exist even today but are not mentioned directly in the Bible.
The Bible clearly states that God made all the animals (land animals, birds, and sea animals) on the fifth and sixth days of creation (Gen. 1:20-25). That would have included the dinosaurs. Like many other animals, however, many of them have become extinct since creation.
Three points are of special interest. First, if the dinosaurs survived till the time of the flood, they would have been on the ark with Noah. Studies have shown that there would have been plenty of room for them. Remember, Noah was told to take a male and female, but age was not specified. He could have taken babies of the larger animals to save room. However, the studies indicate that there would have been room even had he taken adults. That was a big boat. (See books such as The Genesis Flood, by Morris and Whitcomb).
Second, dinosaurs are reptiles. Unlike mammals and birds, reptiles continue to grow all their lives. Prior to the flood, men lived to extremely great ages (see Gen. 5). It is likely that this was because conditions on the earth before the flood were more conducive to long lives than afterward. Conditions on the earth would have undergone major changes as a result of the flood. If animals also lived to comparatively longer ages before the flood, that would have made some mighty large reptiles, even of the kind of reptiles we have now. So it is entirely possible that the dinosaurs were very large reptiles that grew so large because they lived long ages before the flood. However, after the flood conditions changed on earth so that reptiles ceased to live so long and therefore ceased to grow so large. And many of the larger animals, including dinosaurs, may have simply become extinct after the flood.
Third, the flood would explain the huge beds of fossils of animals of all kinds, including the dinosaurs.
In short, dinosaurs pose no serious problem whatever for the Bible doctrine of creation.
For further study I encourage the reader to go to www.gospelway.com/creation/ and study our online articles about creation and evolution. We discuss the problems involved in evolution and evidence that the days in Genesis 1 are literal days.(c) Copyright David E. Pratte, 9/2005
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