Noah's Flood: Biblical Archaeology

[@andrewdoesapologetics]

You don't know how well the timing of this video is for me. I was getting discouraged from a lot of scientists "destroying" the credibility of Noah's Ark

[@johnnybrave7443]

I love the fact as to how God does things in Perfect timing.

[@ruydm]

Don't you know Answers in Genesis? They can help you in many areas of the old testmanet. Many today will say we only need the new, but without the old we can't have the new. Like building a house starting from the roof.

[@RadRelics]

Search for Were The Pyramids Built Before The Flood? It is by a channel NathanH83

[@dimitris_zaha]

@Free Thinker more like "exposing the ignorance of non believers"

[@samuelhunter4631]

@@dimitris_zaha I second this

[@fedeac31]

Just wanted to tell you that your channel is a godsend. I discovered it yesterday and can't bring myself to stop watching it. Not only because I'm a believer myself, but also because I've always been intrigued by the ancient past and its secrets. (Mesopotamia and the ancient Mediterranean in particular.) While I'm here: What's the name of the background music you used in this video? Thank you.

[@icytube2058]

@Glyn R what’s “delious”?

[@joshua2400]

may your ways be that of Jesus' desires for you :" )

[@level_ken5231]

Your yesterday is my today

[@junelsapalus4206]

Is it true that noah get male and female in every animals? The latest stemate was there are 7.77 million kind of animals in the world, then noah get two of each which is male and female, soo more or less 15milion animals was in that ark,, how big is that ark? Two gerraf need big space, as will as hipopotamus, elephant, rino, beast, cow, carabaos, horses, zebras, goats, bucks, bears, wolfs, big cats, and etcs., it needs space. Then how big is the atock room og foods,, noah needs to bring extra animals for the carnivores ones, and grass for herbivores. Then after the flood, why does kangaroo find only in Australia, komodo dragon only in Indonesia, why philippines dont have lions, hepo, rinos, elephants, giraffe? Were does that ark land after the flood? How does tarsier manage to come here in the philippines? JUSt wondering, I hope you can help me find the answers of those questions.. I'm still searching for truth, keep asking to anyone for someone might give answer and inlighten my mind. Thank you

[@hailjesusthechrist]

most animals are sea/air animals? @@junelsapalus4206

[@annoelzinga791]

You people know how to make 21 minutes feel like 5. Great great job.

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

Agreed! These videos are so enjoyable, I hardly ever find myself wondering how much longer is there left to go - the time passes by so quickly!

[@raysalmon6566]

I really doubt if anyone can really prove Noah's flood Isn't Jesus referring to it as a real event enough

[@miller496]

5hrs?

[@annoelzinga791]

@@miller496 🤣🤣🤣 good one 👍🏼

[@joshua2400]

@@raysalmon6566 Jesus (God) discusses the historical accounts of noah in the bible as factual matthew 24:37 Jesus Christ my sovereign healer loves you

[@joelrwo5974]

Jesus says "I am the way the truth and the life no body gets to the father except through me"

[@kingofthemultiverse4148]

Amen

[@lealta1481]

Ivanka said the same thing

[@leestinton8755]

Written by a Greek (not called John)who never knew Jesus or his disciples and mixed Judaic stories with Greek myths.

[@randyg.7940]

Whos the father ? Jehovah ?

[@psi9343]

@@leestinton8755 Proof?

[@nickfoster848]

Considering Genghis Khan is said to be the paternal grandfather of a quarter of Asia’s population, it’s not crazy to me that Noah’s sons would end up accounting for extremely large sums of the population.

[@lordfishsticksthegreat829]

That's not exactly a fair comparison, Kahn had around 50 wives, and probably around 500 women total to sleep with, plus commited a vast number or rapes. Whereas Noah and His sons each only had one wife in the account.

[@nicholasbacchione3469]

This is really interesting, I hope people realize it. The unknown period for the ancients is something I feel is seldom spoken of. Looking at Greek history, they knew the time of the Bronze Age collapse and a bit before, but otherwise it was all unclear. What the Bronze Age people thought of as their past is just amazing, because it's their tradition of spoken history just coming to be written down after years of developing writing, all of the time period that their ancestors spoke of. Early civilization is just amazing, and the transition from the Neolithic to Bronze Age needs to be covered more. I'm glad this channel goes over such things, incredible work!!

[@SBSChristianMedia]

The next generation of apologetic Christians is in AMAZING hands. Such a joy hearing your work. Keep it up!

[@miller496]

SBS Christian Media.....Yay!! Brain poison for everybody!!

[@LogosTheos]

@@miller496 You must be an AronRa fan. Did I guess right?

[@miller496]

LogosTheos....You did indeed!! How about you? He handles this flood joke pretty easily eh?

[@Jarvis_923]

Think Freely do you watch these videos just so you can shit on Christian commenters.

[@mentalwarfare2038]

Spider Kid basically. Why else is he here?

[@nickfoster848]

I’m a a recently saved believer in Christ who has recently returned to the fold. I gotta say that whether you’re a believer or not, this early period described is truly fascinating.

[@youshaysiddiqui1186]

I am a Muslim here on your channel. But I enjoy your videos. They are quite informative like this one.

[@achildofthelight4725]

One God and One Lord to become a holy spirit... 3 as 1, thats the trinity if there ever was one

[@achildofthelight4725]

@The Gharqad Tree there is no proof for a trinity, and if muslims were to set that aside and seek truth rather than doctorine, then we can only hope they will follow Christ to the Father. Problem is, they love listening tovi singer to keep them away from the Spirit of the Father. Just because they are blinded from the atonement made, its sad other faiths fall to them rather than to God who is truth. We can only pray 🙏🏻

[@braydenshanley7435]

Niko Bellic And there’s evidence that your prophets were valid? Also where is the evidence that dates back to this Jesus figure? I’m not a muslims by the way.

[@braydenshanley7435]

Niko Bellic First off, how do you know that these prophets performed miracles? A lot of them defy the laws of physics and scientific logic and lack in historical evidence. Secondly, according to certain Islamic traditions Muhammad is a descendant of Abraham’s second son Ishmael. Last but not least just because a book says something doesn’t make it true. There’s hardly any evidence that the apostles even existed and all of their supposed writings came along way after their deaths, they also contain contradictions.

[@achildofthelight4725]

@Niko Bellic you need two witness to be true in john 1. Who is the second? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Historical_Account_of_Two_Notable_Corruptions_of_Scripture

[@buttwipe108]

Welp, time to buy some more books!

[@briancooley8777]

I don’t get it

[@vaskaventi6840]

@@briancooley8777 Everytime IP sites interesting books I add them to my list (which is growing much faster than I can read it). assume that Mr. Wipe is in the same boat.

[@guinevere1165]

Me too

[@buttwipe108]

This comment section has gone so off topic...

[@theholybiblemysteries208]

try the bible

[@brianmichaelwilliams6839]

i was raised in the church but stepped away from christianity as an adult. since then, i’ve explored and even at some points identified with most eastern religions, native/aboriginal myths & ledgends, agnosticism, astrology, and the secular interpretations of history in depth. with that being said and lived, i’ve really grown to appreciate the storytelling, literary techniques, and historical accuracy of the abrahamic religions (judaism, christianity, islam) in particular. these videos have so much substance and this channel is fucking incredible.

[@kaylin1244]

So u Christian or nah?

[@jesuscaresaboutyou100]

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[@blahblahblacksheep6347]

I have been interested in eastern religions as well...and I would be lying if I said this guy’s videos are not making me think.

[@aidanlarson5394]

Come home, accept Christ.

[@christophersnedeker]

Hope you come back.

[@drazicmilosovic1065]

Noah was the original “Prepper”. 🤘✝️😁✊

[@Jasonsminiadventure]

Does that make the ark a bugout van? 😆

[@Paraglidecrete]

Νωε in Apollonii Sophistae Lexicum Homericum

[@JohnSmith-rk6jy]

And the original conspiracy “theorist”.

[@drazicmilosovic1065]

@@JohnSmith-rk6jy nice nice 👍

[@frankoramerez4536]

Noah was following Gods instructions, not his own.

[@Rotisiv]

Michael’s favorite word to use: Correlates. 😂

[@derricks.3993]

I heard him say it twice as I read your short comment. Lol

[@danielpotter6653]

Are you sure it's not the word.....However...?

[@theholybiblemysteries208]

why

[@Xenosaurian]

I think this also highlights a common problem with his line of reasoning, because he's always looking for some correlation to make empty arguments for something that isn't really there.

[@Melody.Joy.23]

Or “plausible”

[@peli_candude554]

I'm really glad that I never started studying this 30 years ago because this information was probably not available or widely distributed and would have resulted in me believing some of the atheist understandings that lead them to reject the whole Bible as copies of myths from other people (which they were essentially). I've been following the Kings and Generals historic version of Mesopotamia and how it was under constant battles and takeovers by the various leaders and this video helps add another angle to the time period before Abraham left Ur. Thank you...another great and interesting presentation.

[@delightk]

I feel the same

[@Wrkumlin]

Peli_can Dude I reject the bible because of ‘stories’ like the flood and many others. The flood story shows a complete misunderstanding of physics, biology, and science. There is no reason to believe any of it happened because it couldn’t have. Reasons? - you can’t drive when its raining 1” every 15 minutes or 4” per hour. - to flood Mt. Ararat, it would have to rain continuously 4.5” per hour for 40 days - to flood Mt. Everest (i.e the entire surface), it would have had to rain more than 7” per hour every day for 40 days - there is no valid explanation for where all the water went over the next 325 days These kinds of rain events would have sunk the vessel. And these ancient people had no understanding of where the water would go so didn’t make up a story for it. After 40 days of rain, the ark floated around for another 10 1/2 months before running aground on Mt. Ararat. That’s a full year. - with limited space on the ark, how did they store a year’s worth of food for 8 people and thousands of animals? - without refrigeration, food for both people and animals would have rotted. They would have suffered from scurvy similar to the Spanish fleets that died from it after only a few months at sea. - where did they keep all of the meat for the carnivores? That would have rotted, too. - with only one 3’x3’ window, how did they acquire enough oxygen through that tiny hole for the entire ship’s population? With the amount of excrement being produced, the methane gas would have suffocated them. And the stink... - with only one 3’x3’ window, how did they remove the excrement? A full time job for 8 people. - the lack of light would have produced all sorts of health problems. To keep lamps/torches going for light throughout the ship, they would have needed fuel...for a year. No plants could have survived in the dark on the ark. - ‘pairs of animals, one male, one female’. Do you think this might have caused some offspring? Even more animals to feed. And places to put them? Rabbits, mice, and rats alone would have overrun the ship after a year. - 4 couples, 3 of child bearing age, wouldn’t have had any children in a one year period? An finally, 8 people of Middle East decent repopulate the the entire planet and produce all of the visible races? From African blacks to Swedish caucasians? Interesting when archeological investigations have civilizations starting in Africa, not the Middle East. The ark story was just another poorly thought out claim by these ancient people. Not every civilization has a flood story. If there was a flood, every civilization would have the story. These guys can go through the bible and other ancient texts and find whatever they want. But, without some facts to back it up, their claims are just as unfounded as the creation myth.

[@peli_candude554]

@@Wrkumlin Wow, you've really thought this through from your limited knowledge and information available from a story written anywhere from 2,100 to 3,500 years ago but was actually supposed to have happened much farther back in time since it was passed on for many generations before that. To be honest, I don't know what happened but the main idea was this: After God created humans he kicked them out of the Garden of Eden (essentially being kept by God who provided everything for them that they would need) for disobeying a rule and told them to work the earth and sweat for their supper. From that point they just got worse and kept finding new ways to offend God and sin against their fellow humans so God decided that he needed to start fresh. Some see that as genocidal or some other act of immorality that made them despise God even more than allowing stories to be told in his Holy Book that don't make sense to those who want to find the exact details of how that flood worked. But the words of the Bible don't just talk about rain, they also include water from below the earth that was brought up to help flood the world faster. I've heard a few recent stories that say we do have a huge water source stored under the ground and that it is almost as much as the water in the oceans. I haven't researched that either because it is not quite as relevant as the idea that humans sin and we find new ways to insult and disrespect what many believe is the creator of the universe. And again, to be honest, that is what I try to focus on and try to improve internally without judging what others do or believe. If you'd like to elaborate on what you do believe and why that makes more sense to you then it might be more entertaining than calculating all the old stories that only set the stage for the modern world where we see all the problems of sin and evil coming up everywhere and people doing things to insult God and ingore his wisdom is even more obvious with every school shooting, rape, abortion, sex change operation, and any other silliness we witness daily. I'm always open to hearing new versions of reality but lately I haven't heard anything that makes me believe any less in God. They all just confirm that there is something much more intelligent and powerful behind our world and think it's a better idea to seek the face of that being instead of trying to find ways to justify materialistic and sensual pleasures.

[@Wrkumlin]

@@peli_candude554 So, what I get from your response is that god made some people that were emotionally unable to follow his 'rules', rules they were't told. He didn't tell them what sin was. They had no more reason to understand what it meant than if he didn't exist at all. Then he punished them for doing something wrong when they couldn't have know it was wrong without eating from the fruit of the tree in the first place. Saying "Don't eat from the tree" to Adam and Eve was like saying "Don't eat that cookie" to a 3 year old. The temptation is too great. And if that's how your god teaches people, by testing them, then he's immoral. He's a Barbaric bully of a god, with the same personality as those men that made him up thousands of years ago - believe what I do or you'll suffer. Is that how you raised your children (assuming you have raised children)? Did you tempt them and then punish them if they didn't do just like you wanted without telling them what you wanted in the first place? I'm sorry, but your god in no way represents the good of good and evil when he drowns everyone for the doings of a few. And why did he have to drown them? Why did he have to drown all the animals and plants? Was he so incompetent that he couldn't come up with a better way to get rid of the bad eggs in the bunch? And, did it do any good? Nope. He had to direct his warring barbarians to kill entire cities, running swords through the bellies of the pregnant women. But he's all knowing, all seeing, right? Your 'loving' god should have known that drowning 2.5 million of his creations, plus all the animals, would have done nothing and we saw that in history 3,000 years ago. We see it today. So, like I said, he's a bully. He demands worship for what? Fear of eternal persecution if you don't? I know you have to defend all of the crap in the bible to maintain your belief in your god. But I don't. I can look at the bible and see the good and realize that it's good because it's good, not because some god said so. If I need a god to tell me what's good, then I also need him to tell me what's bad. And now I can't think for myself. I can't have free will because any decisions I make could disrupt your god's 'plan'. If I do have free will, your god can't have a plan because there are potentially 7 billion disrupters out there every day - atheists, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, even Christians, or any of the less mainstream civilizations out there that have their own beliefs like the indigenous peoples of North and South America. Your god isn't very good at marketing. And your biblical stories don't make him any better. I'm not trying to get you to disbelieve. This started out as a statement of why atheists reject the bible. The question should be more like why I can't accept it. And that is what I'm trying to show you. We've only discussed 1 or 2 stories here. There are many more that just make the bible unbelievable.

[@Wrkumlin]

@@peli_candude554 By the way, a little research finds that some believe there's enough water under the earth's crust to be equal to the amount of water in the oceans. However, to flood the earth to the top of Mt. Everest would take 7 times the amount of water currently in our oceans. Then there's the question of how it came out and how it went back down. Magic?

[@salemsalem3968]

This guy is seriously learned. Love your passion bro. It's truly inspiring

[@KingandQueens12]

I find it funny that every single thing in religion is “copied from another,” so there for it’s all untrustworthy and false. It leaves out the fact that there had to be a first, even if it were all copied. But it’s so convenient they say that and it’s just a scape goat

[@KingandQueens12]

@Buster Scruggs Thats basically what I meant. They claim the Bible is this and that but it’s unfounded plus they do the same, and worse!

[@ivyrose779]

@Buster Scruggs By evolutionist do you mean people who believe in the scientific fact of evolution? Or, are you using it in a different manner?

[@raymondgrimaldi9207]

@Buster Scruggs now when you say the lord's word stays the same?...are you talking about the Jewish Torah?...the Christian Bible?... or the Muslim Quran???

[@lrcavalli290]

@Buster Scruggs but evolution is a fact...take for example that some people have evolved along far enough to be that evolution is a real thing...well other humans are still stuck in the past, believing in a stone age God,of people who lived in a desert, who's rather shy about proving that he really existed

[@lrcavalli290]

@Buster Scruggs by the way...your definition of scientific fact is way off...we don't necessarily have to observe and have it repeated...all we actually need is to look at the outcome of said events,and come to a logical conclusion...I know that the word "logical" is very uncomfortable to you religious types...get over it

[@magnusbrzenk447]

Very interesting! Nice digest of recent ideas and research. More like this please!

[@miller496]

Learned in a 7000yr old earth? Learned in a god that passed down rules for slavery? Learned in how a menstruating woman is to be treated? Learned in the punishment to be handed down to unruly children? Learned on the punishment to be dealt onto a woman should she be found to not be a virgin on her wedding night? Very learned man indeed. Sounds like he dropped out in grade 6, and only read the bible after that. It’s like if he were to touch a science book he’d burst into flames!!!! 😹😹🙀

[@nikolay5493]

@@miller496 You are not inderstanding the laws at that time, because you look with todays modern cultural context.. Besides a lot of things were about ritual clenness. If you truly wanted to talk and discuss this topic you could’ve used a normal manner, but you are just mocking what you dont really want to understand. Just for the sake of mocking in the comment section.

[@nikolay5493]

@@miller496 And he has a phd inphilosophy to my knowledge

[@MrRobfullarton]

1 man for every 17 women? please tell me there is a time machine available!

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

What if there were SEVENTEEN time machines? One man for each time machine... Would you still be interested in traveling back to that time THEN? LOL

[@maxten1237]

I think he was trying to make a rough , but accurate settlement of the ratio of men to women, which most historical evidence is.

[@Ayushgraphy]

And 289 mother in laws😂

[@catholicorthodoxperson6979]

LOL!!!

[@nazareneoftheway3936]

Youd have to take care of all of them, and their kids, and would be obligated culturally to keep impregnating and growing that cost burden until you give them all at LEAST a son to carry on your name or until they became too old to bare children.

[@skydome777]

It’s fascinating that many studies of the flood account omit the fact that the “fountains of the deep burst forth AND the windows of heaven were open” Gen 7:11 ESV. So, there was not only a 40-day monsoon from above but the earth was ejecting water from water tables below. This was a catastrophic event; not just forty days of rain.

[@joeycad]

" fountains of the deep" could refer to all the moisture that entered the atmosphere when a comet impacted the deep ocean? There are 3 new craters found in Indian and Pacific oceans dated to this time. The largest of the 3 near Madagascar is called the burckle Crater.

[@danieljaywoods9950]

Hey IP, how do you interpret the "fountains of the deep" contributing water to the flood?

[@Archangel657]

This may help in that regard kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHauaYCXbZiaa8k

[@patrickbuckley7259]

That could be aquifers pushing up water for some reason. Which could happen in a few different ways, not sure if a monsoon could cause it though...

[@jameslewis3793]

They've actually found that there's very possibly more water currently under the Earth's mantel than is on the surface of the Earth right now.

[@corydanielwolf5684]

Geysers!

[@patrickbuckley7259]

@@corydanielwolf5684 Well yes obviously the issue is if and why they errupted along with the coming of the Monsoon. Assuming it was not pure Miracle and a more subtle divine hand in the form of more natural forces... Or could a mass eruption of geysers be what caused the Monsoon?

[@Jana-fp8qp]

From what I read the flood was global. I'm not a professor of science or history or anything like that but I can read books. Theology books are my favorite. This is not some story passed around to get on the best seller list. It is a message to last the ages. God was not happy with his creation but he was not giving up on them. So he saved 8 people out of the lot. He threw in some of the animals also. If anyone says God can not flood the whole earth they are limiting his power! I ask how scientific is miracles? Did Moses part the red sea? Did Joshua distroy the walls of Jerico with trumpets? Did Elisha raise a boy from the dead? Did God save three boys in the furnace? Or, a boy named Daniel from the lions den? Did God cause a virgin to give birth? Did Jesus turn water to wine? Did Jesus heal a mutitude of illnesses? Did Jesus walk on water? Did Jesus resurrect from the grave? Did a mere 12 apostles conquer the world for Christ? This is a small sampling of the miracles performed. The best miracle that we all hope is to come. The resurrection of our bodies on the coming of our LORD. Science is the study of what we can see. Christians are spiritual beings not carnal. Believe in the word of God! Miracles is God poking his finger into this material world. We can see its effect but can not explain it. Call it the theta variable if you like.

[@sammathai761]

Watching this from UAE makes this so cool!

[@justinrozario2003]

Arab local or Expat?

[@sammathai761]

Trashinator: Expat. I thought the name was a dead give away.

[@raphaelrico1584]

Sam Mathai Mathai mone, sughaano

[@yote9107]

They are gonna kill you bro

[@binilbabu138]

Great to see you here Sam!

[@jesuschristbiblebiblestudy]

"So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding." (Colossians 1: 9) NLT. Amen.

[@JonathanOlarte]

I can't wait for the video about how Jonah wasn't "really" inside the belly of a sea creature for 3 days, So let's examine the text and its translation and interpretation because "scientifically" this is not possible. And thus Christians can follow the science wherever it leads.

[@kevcaratacus9428]

Killing everyone in a flood to get rid of sinners didn't work did it So it was pointless.

[@kevcaratacus9428]

If god made us in his image does he suffer agonising bone cancer like many young children do before dying. If god exists he's worse than the devil . At least we know the devil is bad .

[@nikolay5493]

@@kevcaratacus9428It’s actually a result of a choice.. Disease and all sorts of things entered the world when people chose the opposite of God.. This is because God gives us choice, for us to love him back with our free will. Kids who die just show the fact that this world is fallen, and is in need of grace. Besides everyone is Judged Justly according to the knowledge given to them, so kids only suffer for a period of time, afterwards they are in paradise forever.

[@nikolay5493]

@@kevcaratacus9428 This is what comes with peoples will, actually he could end all evil in a snap of a finger but he should then start with you and me… afterwards all humans.

[@pu-m3451]

Jesus Mesiah is my Lord! Glory to his name! ❤ 🙏

[@ashehalsadik7185]

Peace be with you! I am a Muslim and I just wanted to say that I love the work you are doing on the Bible. Your explanation of Eve being created from Adam's rib blew me away. Keep up the good work! I also wanted to highlight that the Quran also claims that the ark came to rest on Mount Judi in chapter 11, verse 44.

[@Valthegal04]

Hope you find jesus :)

[@ashehalsadik7185]

@@Valthegal04 Peace! Thank you very much 🥰 I do have one question, however. Why isn't it enough if we just worship God, the Father, alone? That we love Him with all our hearts ands all our souls and all our minds?

[@carpediem5316]

@@ashehalsadik7185 A big reason is because of John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me. If you deny Jesus, you deny the Father too

[@ashehalsadik7185]

@@carpediem5316 Peace! But I already believe in Jesus and try to act according to his teachings. I just don't believe he is God.

[@carpediem5316]

@@ashehalsadik7185 Then you deny Jesus himself and the God of the Bible John 8:57 Jesus said to them "Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I Am." John 1:1,14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

[@frame-perfectadskip9159]

If the flood was local, what was the promise God made that was symbolize by the rainbow?

[@patldennis]

Rainbows are an inescapable consequence of water retracting light due to the difference in optical density between it and light.

[@mnomadvfx]

The ancients did not see the global Earth that we take for granted today as a result of education, naval discovery and technological development. Unless they were traders between various far off countries the ancients whole world would have been limited to at the most a few hundred miles in any given direction, rather than the thousands we know to be the case today. Worse than that, tor the greater part of any given ancient population that number would likely have been only tens of miles in any given direction. Even today many people do not stray more than a few miles from the place that they grew up in over their entire lifespan.

[@ApplestreamRuben]

You should do a video about how Zoroastrianism affected ancient Jewish Thinking/Culture, and claims of plagiarism. If there is enough material to conduct research on this topic, of course. It's been a more difficult subject for me personally.

[@benisrael2266]

Can you give some examples? It's a claim I here here and there but never see any real arguments

[@ApplestreamRuben]

@@benisrael2266 Well for example that the concept of Archangels, the Apocalypse and Final Judgment were "taken" from Zoroastrianism, since the Zoroastrian king Cyrus freed the Jewish people from Babylon's rule and brought them home, even helped to erect the temple, and is called in the bible the "annointed one". The claim is that Zoroastrian ideas such as Apocalypse, Angels and the Satan did not exist in the Jewish Religion prior to that event, and was implemented in Judaism due to syncretism. Zoroastrianism is a highly dualistic Religion, with basically two Gods representing good and evil, and there are immortal beings that assist the "Good" deity, and it does often speak of a day in which all people will be judged.

[@benisrael2266]

@@ApplestreamRuben I will look into it for you. Firstly i think that the old testament dosnt believe in dualism though!

[@benisrael2266]

And also angels most certainly existed in pre exile judiasm as they are clearly reference in the torah, joshua and joshua. As to arch angels there is separate "class" of Angels called the angles of the lord who seem to be used for certain tasks. Also by the way I am jewish so j am talking from a jewish perspective so we dont believe in a satan that is gods enemy . I'll look up the other things for you

[@ApplestreamRuben]

@Behrad At oh cool, thanks for the info!

[@Tdub0911]

It's like police say about witnesses. People see the same event but the details are usually different. Not just these two...there are one's in North/South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, etc.

[@4dy4dy]

Everyone started after the flood, if everyone had grandparents who told them about the flood, it is clear that so many nations have this story as a "myth" even though it was a reality. And as you wrote, generation after generation only remembered certain details of the whole story, until someone decides to write it but maybe already too distorted. For me, this is another reason to believe that the Bible is true. It's the most complex, the most proven. But also the most mysterious, because God wants man to understand, to learn to love, to respect, to believe, and only the one who seeks God with all his heart finds him. As if God showed everything clearly and descended to earth in all his power, no one will dare not believe, but in this way no one will show what kind of man he is, bad or good. Here on earth we show if: We live to be a blessing to those around us on this earth or we live for ourself and everyone has to please us. The Bible shows us what and where a life lived in selfishness leads us, even our consciousness that man shows us through many films we make where Selfishness leads Evil and the desire for power to oppress others.

[@tyrionlannister3459]

And a lie told often enough will eventually become "the truth".

[@differous01]

The first cities/civilizations grew up besides rivers, so any culture which DIDN'T have a flood story would be the oddity.

[@marschlosser4540]

@@tyrionlannister3459 Yes, the lie there was no flood is a big one!

[@marschlosser4540]

@@differous01 You mean like the Puna, in Ecuador? The plateau is so high there are places humans can't breathe without carrying oxygen. Yet, the American Indians have the same basic story as the Bible. No one is going to build the kind of ship each story states unless the flood is a lot bigger than just from a river. No one is going to haul 2 of every kind or claim they were the only survivors.

[@78thandSynth]

What a blessing the ark made it to Kentucky. 😂

[@qetoun]

almost strains creditability...

[@disguisedcentennial835]

@@qetoun idk if you’re adding to the joke, but he’s referring to people who rebuilt the ark in modern day in Kentucky

[@qetoun]

@@disguisedcentennial835 I know that, the 'ark encounter' I believe.

[@LASLAY13]

😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aericabison23]

They could have used that space to make some great residence complexes or something. Far more useful.

[@mikef6063]

Anyone else feel like he tries too hard to compromise the clear plain meaning of Scripture in order to rationalize it and make it more “believable” to modern skeptics? I don’t feel like this is real apologetics. It doesn’t defend the Bible, it compromises the Bible.

[@305thief8]

Do not underestimate him stuff like Psalms 104 and other verses debunk this i used to think like u its weird but this guy is legit he does other stuff.

[@mikef6063]

@@305thief8 Punctuation would make your comment more legible. And Psalm 104? What are you even talking about?

[@305thief8]

@@mikef6063 It states consistently in places like Psalms 104 that God set a boundary on the waters so the world will not be over run with water and there science on that. It couldnt be a global flood because none one in the OT knew about the Americas, Antartica, Japan, Australia, etc by theyre cultural understanding. Also Noah was only preaching in the region he was in lol not the whole world also scientists say a global flood literal cant happen apparently it would do way more harm then good.

[@mikef6063]

@@305thief8 Your "logic" goes nowhere. First, Psalm 104 has nothing to do with the ability for there to be a global flood. Next, you are making a number of assumptions with your next comment. First, you are assuming that the continents look like they do today. Even mainstream scientists don't believe that. They refer to a "Pangea", when all the continents were connected in one land mass. You are also assuming to know what Old Testament writers knew, when you have no idea what they knew. But most egregious of your assumptions is the misunderstanding that Old Testament writers wrote based upon what they "knew." This denies the entire point of the Bible - the fact that it was INSPIRED. God TOLD them what to write. Obviously, the writers in some cases were very familiar with their content but in other cases very unfamiliar with it. How do you think prophecy works? You think they "knew" that? And how did Moses write the first few chapters of Genesis? Did he actually know what happened in Eden? God inspired the writing of Scripture. Next, you refer to scientists (who are biased against a worldwide flood) claiming it couldn't happen. That is not evidence of anything. So, your assumptions are all incorrect. Think more critically next time.

[@305thief8]

@Morne Terblanche A global flood isnt possible watch BillNye vs Ken Ham i am sure Bill answered it all you taking the bible too literal

[@CalvinGomes]

Listening to the experts, this sounds like a lot of conjecture. A reed ark 500 feet in length doesn't make any sense. And , if they can't make the Bible fit their theory, they just suggest the Bible is mistranslated and it actually fits their theory instead. A bit hard to swallow all this.

[@lrcavalli290]

More than a bit

[@GamePlayerZ1912]

According to IP, the dimensions are symbolic and the Ark was much smaller. But yeah, it's kinda hard to agree with him in my opinion, but I do respect his point of view

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

My hypothesis is that civilizations always build up around water source, so flooding is naturally be expected once in a while. There must have been several large floods in various regions throughout human history

[@landonhaire3903]

How do you interpret it when God says He will never send another flood like this.

[@nrrbull]

@roasted pancakes WIPING OUT ALL OF THE HYMAN POPULARION BESIDES 8 PEOPLE.

[@universalis8208]

@@nrrbull Which is still accurate for the way that he phrased his sentence, "wiping out MOST of the human population".

[@universalis8208]

Job 38:10-11 "And I placed boundaries on it And set a bolt and doors, And I said, 'Thus far you shall come, but no farther; And here shall your proud waves stop', this is a text about creation. Wasn't a very good bolt and door then apparently. Jeremiah 5:22 'Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD 'Do you not tremble in My presence? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, An eternal decree, so it cannot cross over it. Though the waves toss, yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot cross over it. An ETERNAL decree that the waters will not cover the face of the entire Earth since the forming of landmasses.

[@305thief8]

@@universalis8208 It wasn't a global flod bro

[@305thief8]

@@keithtauber4153 Well that is ignoring texts like Psalm 104:5-9 which describes God during the creation of the earth setting a boundary on the waters of the earth so they do not flood the world ever again which happened in the primordial earth. You are reading the text way too plainly in our modern western lenses and culture we have to understand it their culture lenses and understanding the writers of the bible wouldn't understand our culture the way we do. And those people that you say "Follows Man's word instead of God's word" is interpreting the Bible in the writers culture and their understanding. So I find it unfair when you guys say they aren't following God's word when they are literally interpreting the way it was meant to. Also the Psalms verse is not at all in conflict with the NT passages you cited. The Flood contains a lot fo hyperbole because you are going to tell me that the Hebrew writers were aware of the Aborigines, The Natives, etc then I don't know what to tell you.

[@elmajraz6019]

The fact that you mentioned Mount Judi, shocks me who is a Muslim because in the Quran said it's on Mount Judi. Q11:44 And it was said, "O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold [your rain]." And the water subsided, and the matter was accomplished, and *the ship came to rest on the [mountain of] Judiyy.* And it was said, "Away with the wrongdoing people." It's fun to see how our sources still have similarities despite our differences. :)

[@brentglittle]

You don't spend decades building a boat for a local flood. You move.

[@DANAMIONLINE]

This seems cool. It reminds me of an idea that would have came out before the advent of Zoom lenses. 😂

[@Xenosaurian]

I see a lot of picking and choosing similarities here but little to zero considerable correlation with the biblical record.

[@Tzimiskes3506]

then you haven't learnt to read...

[@Xenosaurian]

@@Tzimiskes3506 What exactly is that supposed to mean?

[@davelikesbacon]

Great job is always IP. Hope you're feeling better

[@LoveYourNeighbour.]

Yes, I heard he may have contracted the virus.

[@davelikesbacon]

@@LoveYourNeighbour. that's what he posted on social media

[@miller496]

Cant believe god would do that to such a loyal slave!!! Bad god! Bad!!

[@parktol02]

@@miller496 Wow. What a kind and thoughtful thing for you to say. I especially like the part where you liken a faithful servant of Christ to that a slave. What an interesting and thought-provoking way of putting it! Remember I'm praying for you!

[@graypokedri1024]

Think Freely bruh honestly. If you’re not being sarcastic please grow up.

[@dlfincher6887]

But there are so many abnormalities that cry out for a global flood and catastrophism. We find huge seashells on top of mountains (here in Appalachia and I’m told even on the tallest mountains, like Mt Everest ). We find massive jungle vegetation and forests under ice caps. Compare this to the massive burial of plants and animals that became coal and oil. We find frozen mammoths with undigested food still in their bellies, requiring a massive and near instant temperature drop. So many unanswered questions.

[@zedm7523]

Shells on mountains are always with limestone which forms under the sea. Science tells us and correctly that tectonic plates is one method to create mountains. Limestone isn't created by a flood that never happened. There has never been a flood that covered every mountain on the planet. Science has also noted things like a warble in our axis at certain times, and other shifts that can change tropical zones into deserts or frozen zones. Listen to science and you will learn... Listen to the Bible and you will get things wrong! :) Ancient people found shells on mountains and put 2 and 2 together and got 7 ... It was a nice guess but totally wrong. A flood that never happened didn't do it. :) Religion teaches about talking snakes... lol :) Science and anyone with an IQ over 80 knows snakes don't talk...lmao :)

[@gusolsthoorn1002]

@@zedm7523 I think you need to rethink things a bit. There are marine fossils within 200 feet of the top of Mount Everest which means water could easily flow over this "high mountain". There are whale fossils high in the Andes giving evidence to the fact that the summits were easily covered by water. The mountain ranges were a consequence of tectonic movement during and after the flood. When we look at how the mountain ranges are parallel to the tectonic fault lines a scenario of a global flood becomes plausible.

[@zedm7523]

@@gusolsthoorn1002 No gus it is you who needs to rethink...lol :) The shells in rock are also in limestone... Limestone is formed under the sea. There was no flood...lol :) So let's approach it from a different angle... Why do you hate your God so much that you believe he would kill all the innocent babies, infants, children and babes still in the wombs of pregnant women? Why are you so eager to believe your God is a mass murderer?... :) If you were Jesus, how would you feel about your supposed followers who accuse your father of such crimes against innocents? The Bible is a load of garbage! :)

[@sliglusamelius8578]

@@zedm7523 Nothing that you said disproves a global flood.

[@zedm7523]

@@sliglusamelius8578 Everything disproves it... But only thinking people can see something in plain and obvious sight! :)

[@Giveitallyougot]

If the Flood only affected the area of Mesopotamia, as some claim, why did Noah have to build an Ark? He could have walked to the other side of the mountains and escaped. Most importantly, if the Flood were local, people not living in the vicinity of the Flood would not have been affected by it. They would have escaped God’s judgment on sin.

[@johnkneeshaw8008]

Yep the video makes a lot of sense, until you realize he's trying to rationalize the Bible.

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

Wow, YECs don't think about this much.... Noah was a prophet proclaiming judgement, as Hebrews 11 says. He couldn't do that if he left. Also, if the land was covered in violence travel was not safe. It was better to stay there and ride out the storm. I'll be covering this in my next video on the flood, as I have 3 more to make.

[@Giveitallyougot]

How are people misinterpreting this scripture? It says "ALL" the mountains were covered not some meaning the ENTIRE earth was flooded. Genesis 7:17-20 Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2GamKuul8yagNU

[@johnkneeshaw8008]

@@Giveitallyougot Ooh, he got you there. That was one of the sections he actually quote-mined out of the Bible in his video (he decided not to address the bit about 'all the mountains under the entire heavens'). He does, like, three others. Of course, he doesn't address all the other references to the global flood in that video. Namely Genesis: 6:7 6:17 7:3 7:4 7:21 7:22 7:23a [He quote-mined here too, choosing to address 7:23b.] 8:21 9:10 9:11 9:12-17

[@randomuser6306]

The flood was a lot bigger than that. Look up the younger dryas impact hypothesis that's gotten a lot of direct support from impact craters newly discovered in Greenland. The northern ice sheet melted suddenly, ending the ice age and flooding gigantic areas of the planet.

[@jameswoodard4304]

Interestingly, the family of Abram came from the area just below the mountains of Urartu. Padan Aram. This is the ancestral land from which fitting brides were sought for the patriarchs who wished to marry among their own people rather than the local Canaanites. It is interesting to note that the father of Semitic Monotheist peoples came from the region where the godly Noah and his sons exited the ark and first began repopulating the region after the flood. It seems like there would be better, more accurate cultural memory of such events there than in the reconstituted cities of Sumer and Akkad and else where. Pure speculation, of course, but food for thought.

[@shawndurham297]

Great stuff bro. I hope you continue to recover in health!

[@itsmenotyou9886]

What happen?

[@MapleBoarder78]

I appreciate all the time, effort, and study it took to make this video. The video editing alone can be tedious and time consuming. On a side note, not sure why people would expect to find the ark now. There’s a high probability the ark was dismantled and used as building material and fire fuel to restart after so much was destroyed by the flooding.

[@miller496]

MapleBoarder78......yeah ok....firewood buddy.....maybe they used the fire to keep the dinosaurs and saber tooth tigers at bay eh? 😂🙈🙉🙊🦕🦖

[@ivyrose779]

But there’s be other evidence and there isn’t.

[@voodoocustompickups2547]

@@miller496 You must not have actually listened... he said the flood happened up to 8500 years ago. Dinosaurs were long extinct by then

[@miller496]

@@voodoocustompickups2547……..I didn’t watch it for a second. According to Ken Ham there were dinosaurs on the ark, thats why he included them in his ark exhibit.

[@voodoocustompickups2547]

@@miller496 Gotcha

[@cryosteam3944]

wow I’ve just finished this video and I’m blown away by 1) the amount and quality of archaeological evidence presented, 2) the amount and quality of scholarly sources presented 3) the nature in which you also present information that wouldn’t necessarily support the biblical account, 4) quality of the video (music, graphics, maps, data, quotes, book covers etc), 5) your narration capabilities, 6) how you balance physical evidences with the biblical accounts (re: it’s clear you’re not pushing a narrative simply because you believe in the Bible) and 7) the effortless flow with which all of this is presented. it’s not easy at all to present archaeological data or biblical topics let alone to present both in an extremely easy to follow and smooth way - God is surely using you indeed brother, keep up the good work you have strengthened my faith in ways I didn’t even know I needed

[@rtod4]

And, of course, the story is in many cultures because it was the same flood.

[@IWITNESS7]

There were only 8 people who survived the flood, so what other cultures?

[@rtod4]

@@IWITNESS7 when the descendants of Noah, which had greatly increased since the flood gathered to build the tower of babel to heaven, God caused the tribes to be scattered around the earth. So, one day they enjoyed technology and easy living, the next day they were cave persons living in a different part of the world. The newly isolated groups were on their own but still told the same stories. But the original groups they came from all shared the same history. That's why trying to determine migration patterns using DNA is doomed to failure.

[@IWITNESS7]

@@rtod4 ok, I get you, 👍

[@mdb1239]

Noah's FLOOD had to be much larger than the Euphrates/Tigress river basin. The Bible uses the term covered entire Earth to mean thousands-of-miles. It was a continent-wide (size wise) flood. Humanity after living for 100,000 years had to be over a large portion of the Earth. Noah's flood wiped out all of humanity.

[@davidprince8461]

How then is it that not only giants survived the flood, great flood stories from around the world survived as well? 🤔 If the flood wiped out all life except for that which was on the ark, then we would have only Noah's flood story left to tell but we have around a hundred great flood stories, I believe, from different cultures around the world.

[@RichyK]

Many Christians today think the Flood of Noah’s time was only a local flood, confined to somewhere around Mesopotamia. This idea does not come from Scripture. Look at the problems this concept involves: If the Flood was local, why did Noah have to build an Ark? He could have walked to the other side of the mountains and missed it. If the Flood was local, why did God send the animals to the Ark so they would escape death? There would have been other animals to reproduce that kind if these particular ones had died. If the Flood was local, why was the Ark big enough to hold all kinds of land vertebrate animals that have ever existed? If only Mesopotamian animals were aboard, the Ark could have been much smaller. If the Flood was local, why would birds have been sent on board? These could simply have winged across to a nearby mountain range. If the Flood was local, how could the waters rise to 15 cubits (8 meters) above the mountains (Genesis 7:20)? Water seeks its own level. It couldn’t rise to cover the local mountains while leaving the rest of the world untouched. If the Flood was local, people who did not happen to be living in the vicinity would not be affected by it. They would have escaped God’s judgment on sin. If this happened, what did Christ mean when He likened the coming judgment of all men to the judgment of ‘all’ men (Matthew 24:37-39) in the days of Noah? A partial judgment in Noah’s day means a partial judgment to come. If the Flood was local, God would have repeatedly broken His promise never to send such a flood again. creation.com/noahs-flood-covered-the-whole-earth

[@gamerChau]

Lately, I’m not sure which side of the fence are you on... Genesis 7:11 NASB [11] In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 40days/nights the floodgates of the sky were opened = moonson all the fountains of the great deep burst open = ? Would reed / reed-hut / bitumen would support the size of the ark? Genesis 6:14-15 NASB [14] Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. [15] This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. / the flood chronology \ 1. In the 600th year of Noah (second month, tenth day), Noah entered the ark (Ge 7:4, 10, 11). 2. In the 600th year of Noah (second month, seventeenth day), the Flood began (Ge 7:11). 3. The waters flooded the earth for 150 days (5 months of 30 days each), including the 40 days and 40 nights of rain (Ge 7:12, 17, 24; 8:1), plus the initial receding. 4. The waters further receded to the point that (600th year, seventh month, seventeenth day) the ark rested on Ararat (Ge 8:3, 4). 5. The waters continued to abate so that (600th year, tenth month, first day) the tops of the mountains were visible (Ge 8:5). 6. Forty days later (600th year, eleventh month, tenth day) Noah sent out a raven and a dove (Ge 8:6). Over the next 14 days, Noah sent out two more doves (Ge 8:10, 12). In all, this took 61 days or two months and one day. 7. By Noah’s 601st year on the first month, the first day, the water had dried up (Ge 8:12, 13). 8. Noah waited one month and twenty‐six days before he disembarked in the second month, the 27th day of his 601st year. From beginning to end, the Flood lasted one year and ten days from Ge 7:11 to Ge 8:14. © 1997 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Matthew 16:23 NASB [23] But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's." Colossians 2:8 NASB [8] See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.

[@JonathanOlarte]

I can't wait for the video about how Jonah wasn't "really" inside the belly of a sea creature for 3 days, So let's examine the text and its translation and interpretation because "scientifically" this is not possible. And thus Christians can follow the science wherever it leads.

[@sleeexs]

@@JonathanOlarte A whale's throat is too narrow for humans to fit through, except for a sperm whale

[@thomasdykstra100]

gamerChau , I think you've determined "what side" IP is on! Thank you for providing this Biblical 'solid' ground, in clear contrast to the skepticism of IP's cohort! God blesses us by grace through faith, not by the hostile wit of proud men!

[@matthewoborne1649]

Natural disasters were often credited to the gods. It was as many researchers suggest a way for ancient people to make sense of their world.

[@MrJstorm4]

Yeah humans seem to like to retroactively apply agency to events they probably didn't have any part in. I.e. a grand paradise has been lost, child birth is tortuous, and we work harder for worse food than our hunter/ gatherer ancestors. Why... because we as a species have transgressed in some way.

[@lrcavalli290]

People live near water...so of course there are going to be flood stories from different people groups

[@boguslav9502]

The human bottleneck and violence rise seemed obvious to me. Man stayed violent towards each other well into the bronze age, Social insulation was the norm and entire villages spawned from one man and his many wives produced entire clans that all hailed back to their previous ancestor. These men would compete with each other (I use compete very loosely here, some were better at dating with the given rules than others) and their haplogroup spread. To scoff at this idea or to consider it incredulous seems almost like willing ignorance. Todays civilizations hail from one man. Hell Europe of all places Is basically spread into two halves both originating from one man, one clan. Hell Humanity has a shocking lack of abundance of haplogroups, in fact it seems entire civilizations hail from a prior father of some sort. I find human migrations fascinating. Great video IP. (Main interst is R1a migrations and Europe as well as India and Iran and some of the middle east.) I love your work, it has really helped me bridge science with my faith and given me new insight into science and what it can be used for. Reading an interview with Fraser, he quoted Aquinas where he said (paraphrasing) "Science provides data, our metaphysical framework is how we interpret that data and what truth we derive from it"

[@johnnyhelbo2345]

Take a look at Walt Brown's hydroplate theory. It explains an awful lot.

[@Delgen1951]

It is known that one firth of the population of Asia is descended form Ganus Khan the mogul horde leader and emperor and that is only a thousand years ago, so why is so difficult to believe that four men from even older times could father so meany people?

[@HeroQuestFans]

Man is still violent towards his fellow man today and that would be true even if the entire world was atheist. They forget we're not claiming that Christianity is proven true because it made the world a paradise. Christians realize their sinfulness and look to God as savior. Yes, we should try to improve, but becoming perfect in some absolute sense on earth is not the "goal" as this is impossible. The idea of a flood local in scope but "universal" in judgment is a lot more plausible than a global flood. Okay say it was a miracle, but how many miracles are needed to make the fundamentalist version of the story make sense? (since they want it to play out in a naturalistic world in real time) If our interpretation of the bible is contrary to fact, then our interpretation is at fault.

[@algorithmlucky8699]

epstein was killed wow so funny😐

[@hardlineamerican8495]

This sounds really interesting. Would you by chance have any resources (Books or papers) you would recommend were I could read up on this?

[@brandonlegan7506]

If the Bible said the world was covered with water then it definitely was

[@theriveroffaith852]

From my research: There were 56 total animals aboard the Ark. 14 livestock. 4 unclean livestock. 14 clean birds. 4 unclean birds. 4 reptiles. 4 marsupials/shrews. 4 monkeys/bats. 4 rodents. 4 weasels. Discovered by comparing nature with various texts. And a method God gave me. Verified with archeology and ancestry. 28 on one side and 28 on the other. Providing further balance for the ship. Discovered after examining the results of the collected data. 4 women on one side and 4 men on the other. The plants for food were also on this deck, along with the body of Adam. Discovered from various texts. A moon pool was included into the Ark, along with the window in the ceiling which ran down almost the length of the ship. Discovered from various texts. Verified with archeology. 3 keels each made from a single tree. Discovered from various texts. Verified with archeology. 3 decks with humans being on the top, then reptiles and birds in the middle, then the rest of the creatures on the lowest deck. Discovered by various texts. Verified with archeology. I can provide sources for the text and archeology along with how I came up with the results of the animal kinds. Feel free to ask questions. Also, here is a new video showing the 3D radar scans of Noah's Ark! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iauVeodtiZmphNU

[@joshleenall]

You honestly think those few animals led to the variety of species we have today? At least you apparently believe in evolution, I guess, although it's a much more rapid version than we know it to be.

[@bonesrhodes3762]

---and at least one moonbat

[@xgfhhjvjgcgfxcgjbj]

as a muslim i find this very Great and Mount Judi is in Quran 11 :44 Then it was said, ‘Earth, swallow up your water, and sky, hold back,’ and the water subsided, the command was fulfilled. The Ark settled on Mount Judi, and it was said, ‘Gone are those evildoing people!’ -سورة هود, آية ٤٤

[@kwokleongawyong2895]

The earth's history had seen drastic climate change that wiped out almost entire population of creatures, including the permian, and other period. So global flooding is nothing spectacular.

[@kevcaratacus9428]

Around the same time a flood seperated the land connection between Britain and Europe. Turning Britain into a separate island. Below the sea an area called doggerland has remains of tree stumps proving it wasn't always underwater..

[@tomsmith3941]

I love these flood stories. Once people realized that the Earth is a globe, they discounted them, because of the unlikelihood that the surface of the planet would be completely covered. What they did not consider is that in a sufficiently large body of water (e.g. Lake Superior) a floating craft would be out of sight of land, indefinitely, creating the impression that the entire world had been inundated. Having no form of propulsion, the Ark really would not have moved at all. It would not have taken much to convince people that the entire world had perished by flood.

[@canadiankewldude]

As for the Biblical story, ancient language experts have declared there is no literary dependence on the Arcadian or any other flood Text.

[@michaelflores9220]

The epic of Gilgamesh even has the dove/raven part of the story. The oldest tablet of Gilgamesh is a complete one from the 18th century BC, 1700s years before the Dead sea scrolls.

[@folkie099]

@J Mireles I would like to know as well

[@kevwhufc8640]

@J Mireles if you're writing about the flood you should look at the cuneiform clay tablets archaeologists found, telling the story of a flood and a God called Enlil who created a storm to flood everything as well as providing information about what materials were needed to build it . Mesopotamia. British museum has 1000s of those early clay tablets. They predate the Jewish & Christian Noah story by 1000 years It's an ancient story, I believe there has to be some truth about a flood otherwise it would have died out . But it was s story handed down from family to family over millennia , eventually taken and characters names changed into the ones we find in the bible. One expert in translating them is on utube, IRWIN finkle I think his name is, British museum is where the tablets are, It's worth a look especially if you're still writing your paper.

[@kevwhufc8640]

@J Mireles around 8000 years ago, or 8000 bc , I can't remember without looking , a flood caused the land joining Britain to Europe disappeared because of flooding which created the English channel. I believe there's some truth in the middle eastern flood , because the story survive for so long after being passed down to each generation over millennia. I believe there's a lot of truth in many biblical stories, I'd be interested in reading your work once you finish, do you have a website you'll post it on , if so I'd love to read . I'm interested in Learning anything new , I don't want to take sides , I'm no Christian or atheist, I believe in God but I don't believe everything man writes . Like you I want all the information I can find. Good luck with your work , I genuinely mean that, theres not enough people like you on utube who actually seek all info . Most decide what to believe without looking for evidence or information. I respect people like yourself who go beyond what the majority do .

[@sathviksidd]

@J Mireles dude KZbin is a better option

[@Black_Jack21]

I read something and I liked it, it goes as follows; the reason why different civilisations recall the idea of there being a massive flood was because prophets (sent around the world) taught the story to to bring them closer to God by giving an example of a wrong doing people while also telling history of human kind. And these stories come back whenever there is a flood as a remembrance but the story gets corrupted over time.

[@MoonMoverGaming]

These prophets even went to continents like Australia and the Americas that the Israelites didn't know existed? Seems unlikely.

[@Black_Jack21]

​@@MoonMoverGamingyeah of course all around the world. Israelites didn't have to know just like Hindus didn't know Israelites existed. God isn't just God of the Hebrews but God of all mankind and all the worlds.

[@themachanic6416]

That makes no sense if that where the case then Noah would have just migrated to a different area instead of waisting time building an ark

[@j.victor]

When the video Genesis 6b it's out?

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

One month

[@j.victor]

​@@InspiringPhilosophy Oh, yeah. Keep moving and have sure of a thing: You work is not in vain. Thanks for take me out from Young Earth Creationism! Jesus continue to bless your work! Oh, and Btw, wash your hands!

[@swazilandandbotswana8856]

João Victor I’m pretty sure evolution is compatible with the Bible too. There is also evidence for evolution so what makes you a creationist? Also IP made a video about how evolution is compatible with the Bible.

[@j.victor]

@@swazilandandbotswana8856 I don't understand you. I am a evolutionary creationist.

[@swazilandandbotswana8856]

Keith Tauber shut up you don’t know what you are talking about

[@ElficGuy]

You need more subscribers dude.

[@LetsNerdOut]

I always thought that the "Great Catastophy" was always the flood. It seemed to fit to me

[@joshua4747]

Atheist love science and archaeology until it clashes with their world view.

[@timothywilliams8530]

Sept it doesnt

[@StudiesOfTheAncientNearEast]

You do realize that an atheist can easily accept the data presented in the video while still remaining an atheist right?

[@tauruswinds37]

Look up " Ron Whytte" Noah Ark was found in the 1980s and can be visited today in Turkey. It's a historical site

[@xxxtentictac2727]

it’s a boat looking formation , there was no evidence of any boat.

[@talostheking8529]

Ron Whytte is such a fraud.

[@mr16325]

It’s not proven it’s the ark , you said it like it is confirmed

[@illestpvnda1000]

Have you ever thought about the flood that happen on Africa while the dessert wasn’t a dessert but a ocean ??!!! I’m very intrigue in the flood that happen in Africa by the times of Noah.

[@christophersnedeker2065]

Don't know of Africa being underwater anytime when humans existed.

[@draco1708]

@ÌnspiringPhilosophy I don't mean to sound demeaning because I love the work you do, but have you not heard of the Mesopotamian tradition of kufars, boats made of reeds and bitumen. It's a very old tradition.

[@CreativeAbhilash]

But if we say that the flood is regional then we can't explain why the bible says that the whole population was wiped and noah only survived

[@MikinessAnalog]

I like the fact you mention an aspect of human nature in that, a group of conquerors isn't going to adopt the traditions or spirituality of those conquered. It is far more likely that those conquered would be forced to adopt the beliefs of their oppressors, implying this couldn't be biblical plagiarism.

[@tourmaline7385]

This is so fascinating!

[@theholybiblemysteries208]

sure

[@Reignor99]

I'm a devoted apostate of Christianity, and this video was incredibly well done, and very interesting. I wish more Christians could take their myths with a grain of salt. Although, "confirmation bias" plaques your judgement just as it does mine. Nonetheless, liked and subscribed, keep up the good work.

[@Ves-pz2hp]

Rainbow tell the truth. Flood was global.

[@alandolawson1924]

Great video as always but what I will say is how long a group of people experienced a hurricane for says nothing about the hurricane itself, being a Jamaican myself these things are somewhat common place, for other Caribbean nations, because of Jamaica's unique location we experience a hurricane about once a decade despite there being on every summer, and when we do get rainfall sometimes it only last about 3 days due to the hurricane making a U-turn, I say this to say the amount of rainfall experience may just be due to the trajectory and speed of the hurricane.

[@rockzalt]

Sometimes you just really want to rewind the reel.

[@JohanKylander]

Take a drink every time he says "correlates".

[@dominicpardo4783]

My liver....

[@czarcastic1458]

talk about being under water , here hold my beer. -- Mt Everest

[@renren1641]

"But everything in the Old Testament's just an allegory for the church!!!" Great video

[@SomeRandomDude000000]

hold up who says this?

[@renren1641]

@@SomeRandomDude000000 I think Michaelangelo made his depiction of Noah's arc represent an allegory for the church

[@Jsolitaire]

@@renren1641 doesn't mean that it can't be used as an allegory though. Shows how deep the Bible is doesn't it!

[@Jamie-Russell-CME]

Both AND

[@coolmuso6108]

What's wrong with allegory? That's how the Church Fathers interpreted many Scriptural passages.

[@michielvdvlies3315]

im from the Netherlands you could walk to England thousands of years ago. almost every week dutch fisherman will find bones in their nets

[@Refulgent_Rascal]

Why do you say this? I'm not quite following? Are you saying more water was added to the world?

[@michielvdvlies3315]

@@Refulgent_Rascal no im talking about coastal areas flooded. people always used to live near water salt or fresh

[@Refulgent_Rascal]

@@michielvdvlies3315 ah right yeah. So you're saying that the genesis flood would've killed all humanity because they were all living near the coast?

[@michielvdvlies3315]

@@Refulgent_Rascal im not saying that either. im talking about coastlands, im not saying the entire world population lived near the coast. i said a lot of people lived in coastal area's because of food

[@janbuyck1]

That is true. Once, the Northsea was above sea level. During the ice-age, most of the water was captured in Glaciers and the sea level was very low.The Northsea bassin, which is very shallow, dried out completely. At the end of the ice age, it gradually filled with water coming from the Thames, Rhin, Meuse and Escaut again.

[@boxorox1]

This follows closer to the land bridge failure between 8500 and 11000 years ago in the Arabian Gulf. The Southern cliffs of Iran dip to depths of 150 Meters meaning a river existed there before the floodong occurred. As well, Bahrain was a swamp at that time. Flooding would have caused the exact problems noted as the ground in those areas was already saturated with water. If you check the depths to this day, most of the water covered areas are only 50 meters deep with the exception of where the river was.

[@markdettra1794]

The grand canyon in the united states was carved by the worldwide flood , in a very short and sudden time scale.

[@LaomerKedor]

No, it wasn't. This would have required a fast stream of water in order to carve through the layers in a very short and sudden time scale. But with fast water there comes a lot of inertia. Look at how narrow some bends in the Grand Canyon are. No fast waterstream would have chosen this way. @@markdettra1794

[@artix548]

I've heard many claims by atheists that the Israelites were a confederation of Caananite tribes. If so, it'd be strange for them to have legends which place their ancestors in places such as Ararat/Urartu and Mesopotamia.

[@Spectre-wd9dl]

Unless you wanted to pretend you were someone else.

[@artix548]

@@Spectre-wd9dl Then that raises the question: who were they pretending to be and why? The Franks once claimed they were the descendants Trojans because they were insecure about not being seen as an ancient and venerable people. If this were to also be the case with the Israelites/Hebrews, you'd expect them to make claims such as being descendants of the Sumerians, but this isn't so. A similar example I can think of would be the Aztecs, who while they did make somewhat extraordinary claims about their origins ultimately believed their own origins were more humble than "descendants of powerful civilizations of yore".

[@joshuavan8391]

Literally just got done watching the first video when this popped up in my notifications, what a treat.

[@fyte4luv23]

noah's ark is on ararat mountains, his settlement, his wife's grave & noah's grave have been found in the town of sagliksuyu in eastern turkey. it means The Place of Eight in turkish.

[@56username]

Yes it has been found . The first time I investigated . This man was called Ron Wyatt showed what looked to be an anchor , I started thinking what did a float boat need an anchor ? That would be dangerous draging around an anchor . About a year and a half later it was like a light went off . It was a rocker stopper/ paravane for modern Fishing boats to control roll from waves . No two year later the Found on another video they found three more. It was to control roll . KZbin: Ron Wyatt KZbin: Low Tech Bible Discovries

[@sidepot]

@@56username Ron Wyatt was an absolute charlatan and a fraud. You can beleive nothing of what he said or claimed.

[@sidepot]

No graves were found and certainly not the ones of the alleged Noah and his wife. Moron.

[@poweroftruth9258]

@@sidepot The Bible says in John 3:16-36 that whoever believes in the Lord Jesus Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life, the Bible also says in Romans 10:9 that those who declare with their mouth that Jesus Christ is their God, Lord, and Savior they shall be saved. Revelation 1:8 says that Jesus is the alpha and the omega. Luke and revelation is the ending times, and Jesus is returning back. So are you going to submit your life to him or no? Narrow is the path that leads to the gates of heaven, but only few people find it. The gates that is the path to destruction is where many people find it! Jesus loves you SO MUCH! That he died on the cross, and was resurrected from the dead 3 days later to give us eternal life……..

[@sidepot]

@@poweroftruth9258 Do you have anything to contribute within the context of this thread?

[@aaa7189]

If it wasn't a global flood, why were they on the ark for a little over a year ?

[@deepcosmiclove]

Noah's flood is a hard pill to swallow for modern people indoctrinated into the principles of Uniformitarianism. The geography of the antediluvian earth was far different than today's. There were no high mountains. There was one continent: Pangaea didn’t exist 350 million years ago but 10,000. The transformation of the earth was due to a worldwide CATASTROPHE. In Genesis the original Hebrew makes recurrent reference to catastrophe. It didn't rain in the antediluvian earth because the earth orbited a different star; probably the brown dwarf Saturn where it orbited within the dwarf star’s heliosphere. This would account for the antediluvian earth covered in perpetual mist, why it never rained, and why Adam and his descendants lived so long; the canopy kept out the harmful cosmic rays that age people prematurely. Drinking water came up through springs. That's why Noah witnessed the 1st rainbow as the catastrophe shifted the earth’s orbit. The sudden upheaval of mountains is a recent event. Lake Titicaca in the Andes is a good example of this and the lake still supports oceanic life-forms at 10,000 feet altitude. The Ark was not a ship. It had no propulsion, no steering, no masts nor sails. It was a floating barge that didn’t go anywhere.

[@WalkingRoscoe]

When I was in Iraq years ago during the war, I would find many seashells in the middle of desert. Every now and then, when talking to a citizen of old Babylon, they would tell me that there was a "great flood".

[@JB-qo6no]

Reading your comment here, I had the same experience in Afghanistan in the helmand province. we stopped the one day in the middle of the desert i found some shells. that is still an amazing experience.

[@NorthForkFisherman]

@@JB-qo6no I can get how the juxtaposition might be surprising, but the first fossil I found as a child was a tropical coral reef chunk, pulled out of a glacier's debris. The state of Michigan was once ancient seafloor. The more you know...

[@GizmoFromPizmo]

I honestly believe that the account of the Flood in Genesis was intended to depict a global flood. The textual evidence is too strong to conclude otherwise. Furthermore, there are certain logical reasons why the Flood story would completely fall apart if it were simply a local phenom. God went to too much trouble to call out Noah. Why not simply do what He did with Abraham and tell him to move to a different part of the world? Having Noah build an ark then having to get all the animals to gather at that location in order to be saved from drowning doesn't make sense if their "kind" would have been safe otherwise. No, a regional flood makes the whole story nonsensical and superfluous. "I'll put a rainbow in the sky to show that I'll never destroy the earth by flooding again. Oops, I lied because regional floods are still happening all over the earth."

[@NorthForkFisherman]

The operative word here is "intended". By that statement, it carries within it that understanding that it wasn't global. "No, a regional flood makes the whole story nonsensical and superfluous. " And that, sir, hits the nail squarely on the head. Bully for you.

[@Myrdden71]

I believe that he has a video on "Why even build an ark?", though I have yet to watch it. I believe the title is "Genesis 6b: Ark and Animals".

[@user-wq1ws1vs4e]

Your video got me out of a tight situation Thanks 🙏 God increase you

[@agoogleuser3787]

So. How do you account for seabed fossils found on mountain tops??

[@SNORKYMEDIA]

read a second book

[@alanthompson8515]

A Google User Plate Tectonic Theory does it for me.

[@dejavus_revenge746]

Can you do a critique on “Human secularism”

[@JoeyKO757]

I am sure that someone is confused the last ice age with the flood.

[@mnomadvfx]

They have. Glacial melt periods =/= global flood. The sea levels do rise, but not catastrophically fast. It's gradual enough to abandon cities at old sea level and build entire new ones higher up.

[@Mr420prophet]

Why are you trying to make God's word fit the world??? There's enough evidence in it to believe it, more than I can say for most religious books

[@thinking_about_beer]

If it were true, there would be evidence. Why not look for that evidence

[@dirtydogvideo]

and how did the kangaroos get from the middle east to australia? could they hop on water like jesus walked on water? lmao!!

[@joshuadunford3171]

Did you watch the video? This talks about the flood being regional and not global. Michael Jones isn’t a fundamentalist creationist. If you want to debunk non fundamentalist Christianity, it may help to learn what we actually think before you make your assumptions. If it is fundamentalist Christianity that you want to debunk, you are barking up the wrong tree

[@Jim-Mc]

One of your best vids. The idea of a 'rolling' series of major floods caused by the late Younger Dryas impact is my favorite theory. Need to hear more about the animals though, did many species experience a bottleneck at that time? If not then why is so much attention given in the story to preserving them?

[@ueks69]

There was a temperature fall in the younger dryas, it did not create a genetic bottleneck for humans, the pleistiocene megafauna died out or almost All of them, the wholly mammoth lived on at Wrangel Island to around 4000 years ago.The dying of the megafauna was not syncroneus. The impact hypothesis is not accepted as a fact in Academica, there could bebother culprits such as volcanes, but there was an impact, because there has been observed Platinum spikes in ice cores and peat samples from around the globe, but not enough to have caused a planetary catastrophe, in fact human seems to thrive and multiply at the time.

[@Drp_br_]

I may of been a dick to you religious ppl. I’m regret that now! And finally! A Christian who is rational then other Christians I encounter! (No offence) I’m officially gob smacked! You Christians and just religious people in general have my respect now! Good video tho IP! 👍🏼🤙🏼

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

Thank you!

[@tylersimmons6524]

So, how does regional flooding and separate flooding events equate to a global flood that eradicated all humans besides Noah's family and all land based animals not on the ark?

[@ikengaspirit3063]

Near Eastern texts like those that record Alexander's and Sargon's conquests typically when referring to "the world" mean the "the well known world", as both conquers are described as having conquered the world but it is obvious that they didn't in the sense of the whole earth and that they and their contemporaries knew that they didn't. Treating the Bible as another Near Eastern text, it would at least mean that it is written in the same style and uses the same idioms. So most of the time when they say "the world", they mean "the well known world".

[@NorthForkFisherman]

The former may have actually happened and been conflated with retells over time. The latter most certainly did not happen.

[@andrewtataj497]

I kinda disagree. It's one thing to say that that different cultures have records of the same historical event (the flood). It's another thing to have them all make an account of a divinely ordained person to survive the flood by way of constructing a boat and bringing all the necessities of life on board. That kind of detail and narrative flow is too specific for me to believe anything other than they originated from the same story. I think an important thing to consider is the age of the evidence we currently have for the dating of this event. That being the younger dryas of 12800-11500 years ago. At that time, we have evidence humans were making use of early pottery, maybe early agriculture, maybe early basic metal working (as you've said), but the key is that we lack evidence of writing. If settled culture existed in the area at the time; seems pretty likely due to the relatively recent uncovering of sites like Gobekli Tepe and Catalhuyuk in Turkey, hell even Jerhico in Palestine, I think a more likely explanation is that the differences in versions could be chalked up to passing that story down orally among diverging cultures for thousands of years before anyone figured out how to write it down, rather than each culture coming up with the story independantly. What culture, or who came up with the story in the first place and how it diverged into the varying ancient cultural accounts of the fertile crescent is probably lost in time to us due to the inability to trace it back further than the invention of writing. But, on the plus side, we still have tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets sitting untranslated in various museums around the world that might be able to shed light on it, if we can only get enough people to learn to read them to translate them all. That piece of the genetic bottleneck of the younger dryas is news to me, I was only aware of the one of 74,000 YA, not one from 12000 YA. Excellent video dude, even if you've failed to convince me, you've still succeeded in making me think. Cheers.

[@raysalmon6566]

Jesus refered to the Noah and the flood as real Matthew 24 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. this group is about biblical archaeology currently reviewing the biography of William Foxwell Albright There are hundreds of Archeology projects that have confirmed the historicity of Israel and existence of its Prophets I want you to join my group on MeWe: mewe.com/join/bookreview

[@Tzimiskes3506]

no actually we have found evidence last year of complex knitting in fishing techniques... you should look this up and read the studies... might help... cheers!

[@DarrenGedye]

This is fascinating! I've read The Genealogical Adam and Eve by S. Joshua Swamidass. I think I need to sign up as a Patreon for this channel!

[@InspiringPhilosophy]

Thank you so much! Patreon.com/inspiringphilosophy

[@delightk]

Hey Michael, How is your health man?

[@bobalink2087]

Interesting evidence on the flood in the Persian gulf area, but completely missed the fact of the much lower sea level during the Ice Age. The cloud was also global since a sudden rise in sea level would be earth wide. The late Ice Age extinction event was caused by a rise in sea level the reached the edges of the ice sheets. For more see the book "Solving The Mystery of the Biblical Flood"

[@jamesmaclean5586]

not a myth, The most ancient record is the un corrupted bible....