Prove there is a God

By Becky Bradley

Noah’s Ark is a familiar bible storywhoseimagesgracebaby nurseriesanddaycaresaround the world. Songs of animals marching two by two into the Ark are sung in children’s churches.There is even a song about a playful unicorn who missed the boat—forever wiping out all unicorns. Even movies have been made about it;thoughsomeintheindustry have forgotten that the only knowledge many people have of the bible is on their epic screen.Theyhaveinfactmade fun of it; and, dare I say, purposefully mislead people away from the actual biblical account.

There are literally over 500 ancient stories about a worldwide flood. They range from Mesopotamia to the Americas. Their authors came from a time period when traveling was not always accessible because of the vast oceans between them and other cultures. So, how then did they become so similar? Could they be based on a real event? According to Genesis chapters 6—9, Noah was the most righteous person on earth; a man who walked faithfully with God when the rest of the world was saturated in evil— including the animals. So, God gave him detailed instructions to build an ark out of cypress wood, with rooms in it and to coat it with pitch. He was to build it 300 cubits long, 50 cubitswideand30cubitshigh. (Thatisabout450feetlong,75 feet wide and 45 feet high, or in metric terms, 135 meters long, twenty-three meters wide and 14 meters high). He hadtomakearoofforitwith

Noah walked with God righteously. an opening, a window, below the roof that was 1 cubit (about18”,or45centimeters). He was to make a door in the side and make upper, lower and middle decks. Then Noah was to load it with provisions forhisfamilyandtheanimals.

When the ark was finished, Noah took his wife,3 sons and their wives inside and God chose the pairs of animals (in some cases 7 animals of each kind) he wanted to preserve from every living land animal withbreath.Aftertheyentered the ark, God closed the door, shutting out all the horrors of thecomingfloodandprotected them.

The rain fell hard and the fountains of the deep rose for 40daysand40nightscovering allthemountainstomorethan 15 cubits (23 feet or about 6.8 meters) until every living creature God had made that wasoutsidethearkwaswiped out.Genesis7:4 Then God remembered Noah and the wild animals and livestock and sent a wind over the earth that receded the waters.

After 40 days Noah opened the ark’s window and sent out a raven, but it kept flying back and forth. Next, he sent out a dove, who couldn’t find a dryplacetorest.7dayslaterhesent the dove out again, who brought back a freshly plucked olive leaf. He waited7moredaysandthistimethe dove did not return. Then God told Noah, his family and the animals to come out of the ark and repopulate theearth.

As soon as Noah disembarked, he made a sacrifice to God. And God placed a rainbow in the clouds as a reminder of his promise to never floodtheentireearthagain.

Now compare the biblical account of the flood to other cultures.

The Toltecs were a people whose kingdomwasconqueredhundredsof yearsbeforemissionariesevenknew about the “New World”. They lived thousands of miles and an ocean away from the Middle East and Mesopotamia, where Noah’s story originated. Yet, their story not only mimics Noah’s account, but actually dares to specify the exact years between the Creation of the world and the “Great flood”, and between thefloodandtheTowerofBabel!

● In the Toltec account, 1,716 years after the creation of the world, a man named Coxcox and his family escaped a great flood in a toplipetlocali, which means “closed chest”. Which is actually a pretty good description of a sealed ark. (Biblical scholars believe the actual years between the creation and Noah’s flood is 1,656. That is only a 60-year difference from theToltecs).

● After the flood, Coxcox and his family left the boat, and their descendants multiplied and wondered the earth until they found a place to build a “zacuali”, a “great tower”, to protect them in case the world was ever destroyed again. However, their language became confused. Whole branches of the descendants broke away from those who were not speaking their new language and wondered off in different directions acrosstheearth.

● The Toltecs believed they started as a family of 7 friends and their wives who spoke the same language. The newly formed family crossed great waters, possibly an ocean. And for 104 years they lived in caves as they wondered far from their origins. Finally,theysettledinHuwHueTlapian,(orHucHuc

Tlapallan) the Southern Mexico and Central American region.

According to the Toltec’s legend, their ancestors arrived there 520yearsaftertheworldwideflood.

● The Aztecs believed Topi was a “pious” man. They believed theirgodstoldhimtobuildaboattoliveinandthathewasto take his wife and a pair of each animal into the boat. People musthavemockedhim,becausethestorysaidtheythoughthe was crazy—that is until the floods came. Then they and the remaining animals tried to save their lives by climbing the mountains, but the flood overtook the mountains, destroying them all. When the rains finally stopped, Topi sent out a dove thatdidnotcomeback.

● One Chinese story says Fuji, his wife, 3 sons and 3 daughters were saved from a flood that covered the mountain tops and repopulated the earth. There is even an ancient temple wall painting that shows Fuji’s boat in “raging” waters while dolphins swim around it and a dove holds an olive branch in its beakasitfliestowardit. Both the Chaldeans and the Babylonians tell of their gods’ instruction to certain men to build boats according to specific dimensions. Then they placed their families, 2 of each kind of animal,aswellasprovisionsintheirboats. TheBabylonianseven saiditwascoveredinpitch,justliketheark.Aftertherainscame and went and the waters started to recede, each man released a series of birds in order to find outif the earth was dry enough to comeout.

● In Hawaii, the only good man left on earth was Nu-u (Noah?).

Nu-u made a great canoe with a house on it for he and his family,andfilleditwithanimals.Whenthewaterscoveredthe whole earth, the other animals and people died. But they survived.

● Other stories have remnants of the people being rescued on thebacksofa turtle,orina round boat(whichscientistshave proven will not survive the ferocity of a raging flood) or on floating logs . . . I haven’t read all of them, of course, but the majority are said to have some element of Noah’s flood in them.

● For those who believe each of the stories represents local floods, and not a collective memory of a worldwide disaster, there is 1 point I would like to make, though it is not my original thought. If it had been a local flood the water would not have capped the mountains and then some. It would have hadothergroundsurfacestospreadacrossasitdrained.Buta universalfloodwouldn’thavedrylandtoescapeto.

● The Toltec’s story of the mighty tower and the confusing languages is the only one I have found that, aside from the bible,hasaplausibleexplanationastowhytherearesomany accounts of a tragic, worldwide flood in a time when it was next to impossible for scattered tribes to share their knowledge, faith and stories across vast oceans. Yet, there are elements in their cultures thatdare us to not connect them to some common ancestor(s). A prime example is the early ziggurat (step pyramids) of Egypt and the Americas. How could ancient American tribes and peoples across the globe share the design of their buildings, culture and legends with suchsimilarities?

● Andhowdoweknowwhosestoriesareclosesttotheoriginal, ifnot the original?Well,foronething,mostofthestoriesleave outspecificdetailsthatcanbestudiedandevenchallenged by today’sexperts.

● But that isn’t true when it comes to the bible. Unlike other stories, the bible holds quite a few scientific and geographical evidenceswithinitschapters.ButIamgoingtoconcentrateon only 2 clues in Noah’s story: the fountains from the deep and the amount of water in a worldwide flood. Genesis 7:11 says “all springs of the greatdeepburst forthandthefloodgates of heaven were opened”. And Exodus 20:4 has a rather strange statement. “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in Heaven or on the earth beneath or in the waters below” .

● Idon’tknowhowawareancientpeoplewereofthevastlakes, even oceans, below our crust, but the verse “all the springs of the great deep burst forth” meant there was power behind their emergence. They had burst out of perhaps miles of rock as forcibly and as suddenly as violent projectile vomit erupts fromdeepinsideus.

● AccordingtotheLongIslandChurchofChrist,(intheUSA)the water shot up from the cracks of the earth. As the water exploded from the cracks it carried with it great amounts of sediment.Theanimals,including marinelife,wouldhavebeen encased in sediment immediately; which would explain why closed clam fossils are found on the tops of the highest mountains and other animal fossils are found in a state of contorted shock. (Closed clam shells are an indication the animalswerestillalivewhenthesedimentcoveredthen).

● Sowheredidthefountainscomefrom?

● Dragon’s Breath cave is located in Otjozondjupa region of

Namibia. It is the world’s largest non-glacial underwater cave intheworld.Expertsbelieveitis430feetdeep,buttheyreally aren’tsuresincethecaveisaround330feetbelowthesurface.

Nooneinthevicinityofitevenknewaboutituntil1986when explorersfeltahumidbreezecomingoutofahole.That’show itgotitsname,Dragon’sBreath.

The‘Lost Sea’is the2nd largestundergroundlakein theworld (andthelargestintheUSA). ItisfoundinthestateofTennessee. Itissolargepeopleactuallytake“seatours”onaboat.

● St. Leonard Lake also has boat rides. You can put it on your “things to see” in Switzerland. It is around 100 ft long and is thelargestsubterraneanlakeinEurope.

● Owey, in Ireland, is intriguing because it is a lake beneath anotherlake.Itisaround650feetbelowthetoplake.Youhave to squeeze through a sinkhole and climb down into complete darkness. This lake is fed by both the lake above it and the ocean trickling through the collapsed cave entrance. Butdon’t worry, the walls on the way down actually glow when you shine your flashlight on them from bioluminescence; which is the emission of light by living organisms, according to the dictionary.

● And there are other underground lakes in China, Iceland and

Viet Nam . . . plenty to help flood the earth in such a short periodoftime.

● Accordingto Chief Cartographer atNSI, Inc.,Mark Pringle, the flood’seffectontheearthlastedlongaftertheearthhaddried up. His job includes mapping the ocean floor. “Bathymetric” is the term he used in his video on evidence of Noah’s flood.

Accordingtohim,only5%oftheseafloorisreallyknownand the rest is a mystery. But that is enough to show proof of a violent worldwide flood. He says there are signs on the bathymetricseafloorthatcancorrelatewithNoah’sflood.

● He reminds us that there were 2 worldwide floods, the first, literally, in the very beginning—when the earth was first formed. But when dry land appeared all that water had to go somewhere.The only real placeto store that much water was in deep caverns and such underground. But what else is underground?

● Hot,moltenmagma.

● Imagine almost 2,000 years later, the water that had once covered the earth rising to the occasion, again; this time with thehelpofhotmoltenlava.Thewaterquicklypercolates,then

● comes toa rapid boil,and finally explodes through the earth’s crust, shooting miles into the sky, until tons of water come crashing down on anything or anyone below—just as other sound-shattering fountains of the deep break through the crust, shooting as high, or higher. As the water builds, its weight pushes the oceanic crust down while the continental shelfbeginstorise.

● Butafteritwasalloverandthewatersbegantorecede,didthe underground caverns have enough room todrain all the extra waterabove?

● According to an article called, ‘Huge underground Ocean towards earth’s Core’ by IFLScience, a study by seismologist

Brandon Schmondt from the University of New Mexico and geophysicist Steve Jacobsen of Northwestern University, both in the USA, ringwoodite is a peculiar rock found inside the earth. A sample was found that is believed to be from 400 milesbelowtheplanet’ssurface. Expertsbelieveitrepresents an exorbitant amount of ringwoodite all over the world. The sample contained 1% of water. That’s not much, but ringwooditeisarockthatactslikeasponge.Iftheamountthe experts believe is truly under the earth’s surface, that 1% sample could represent enough ringwoodite worldwide to hold3xsmorewaterthanallouroceanscombined.

● Now I am going to include something here that may seem rather strange to you, considering this is an article on Noah’s flood. And that, is the story of Peleg. Actually, Peleg is only mentioned in three times in the bible that I know of, and almost as an afterthought: in Genesis 10:25, Luke 3:35, and 1

Chronicles1:19.PelegwasinthefourthgenerationafterNoah.

His only claim to recognition was is that he was named Peleg becauseinhislifetimetheearthwasdivided.Somebelievethat hastodowiththedivision ofpeoples becauseoftheTowerof

Babelandthelanguageconfusion.Butthesentencesays“when earthwasdivided” not whenpeopleweredivided.

● According to KJVbible.org/peleg.html the days of Peleg migrationsandchangesinsealevel, ● Pelegmeansadividingbyachannelofwaterandisalsoaroot associatedwiththemeaningofanearthquake.Itmeanstosplit something. They believe the sea floors, forced downward by the flood to fill magma chambers beneath, would have put a strain between the oceanic and continental portions of the crustal plates. Consequently, tectonic pressures were redistributed.About100yearslater(Pelegwasborn104years after the flood) the strain would havecausedthe earth’s crust torapidlysplitinweakerplaces.

● Peleg lived for 239 years. Did Noah’s flood actually have consequences for over 200 years after it receded? Did it weakenthesupercontinent Pangeasomuchthatsomuchthat itfinally splitinto7continents, not over millions ofyears,but inabiblicalman,namedPeleg’stime?Hmmm.

● For more than a year now, I have presented the Bible and science, not as enemies, but as comrades in proving the real Creator,ourFatherGod’sexistence.AndstillIhaveonlygotten asfarasNoah.Ibelieveitwouldtakealifetimetoshowallthe proofbothscienceandtheBiblehavetooffer.Forthatreason, I encourage you to continue the research. To dig deeper, with the wisdom God has granted us: to use the knowledge he has made available to us, and to encourage others to look beyond theteachingsofaveryfallibleworldandthinkforthemselves.

● Godisreal.Heislovingandkind,andwantsusbyhisside.But he will not wait forever, for the sake of his children—those of us who accept Jesus/Yeshua into our hearts and seek forgivenessofoursinsaswelivealifethathonorshim.

● JustlikewithNoah’sflood;timewillrunout.Andlikethedoor ofthearkheshuttokeephispeoplesafe,hewillbringanend to a very cruel and unjust world. The events happening all around us correlates with prophecies from the bible. We are literallylivingoutbiblicalpropheciesoftheendtimes.Forthat reason,IinviteyoutogoovertheevidenceIhaveshowninthe past issues of Aurora Magazine, and evidence others have to offer—as well as evidences you find. Then look inside your heartandacceptJesusasyourpersonalsavior;theonlysavior forallofmankind.