Rambling on topic of ‘modern Noah’s Arks’ after typhoons

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-20
By: Cli Square, Taiwan News, Contributing Writer

Recently Taiwan endured the onslaught of Typhoon Meranti and Typhoon Malakas that came one after the other and caused flooding in some areas in the country. It is natural that people usually associate the scenes of flooding with the narrative of Noah’s Ark in the Bible. Therefore, Noah’s Ark is a befitting topic to talk about in the aftermath of the two typhoons.

According to Wikipedia, Noah’s Ark is the vessel in the Genesis flood narrative (Genesis chapters 6–9) by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world’s animals from the flood. According to Genesis, God gave Noah instructions for building the ark. Seven days before the deluge, God told Noah to enter the ark with his household and the animals. The story goes on to describe the ark being afloat throughout the flood and the subsequent receding of the waters. According to narratives in Genesis and the Quran, 120 years were spent on building Noah’s Ark.

It was a big boat made of “gopher” wood and had three internal decks, on each of which there were many cabins, a door in the side, and a skylight on the top. Different sexes of a same animal were arranged to live in the same cabin, and therefore when the deluge submerged everything else in the world, the boat was still rife with lives.     [FULL  STORY]