Le déluge The flood

Tant que durera la terre, semailles et moisson, froidure et chaleur, été et hiver, jour et nuit ne cesseront plus. Genèse 8:22 Voir aussi : Patriarches et Prophètes, ch. 7, Le déluge: https://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=PP&lang=fr&pagenumber=67 See also: Patriarchs and Prophets, ch. 7, The flood: https://text.egwwritings.org/publication.php?pubtype=Book&bookCode=PP&lang=en&pagenumber=90

The capacity of the ark was about 522 railroad cars, (1 The capacity of the ark was about 522 railroad cars, (1.4 million cubic feet). Only 188 railroad cars would be required to hold a pair of each of the 17,600 species of animals presently known to man, according to Dr. John Morris of the Institute of Creation Research. (This number of cars includes food supplies for a year's subsistence). From this we can assume that many perhaps as many as two-third of the species originally created by God are already extinct. (source: www.ldolphin.org/flood.shtml)

Creationist researcher John Woodmorappe has calculated that Noah had on board with him representatives from about 8,000 animal genera (including some now-extinct animals), or around 16,000 individual animals as a maximum number. When you realize that horses, zebras, and donkeys are probably descended from the horse-like “kind,” Noah did not have to carry two sets of each such animal. Also, dogs, wolves, and coyotes are probably from a single canine “kind,” so hundreds of different dogs were not needed. According to Genesis 6:15 , the Ark measured 300 x 50 x 30 cubits, which is about 510 x 85 x 51 feet, with a volume of about 2.21 million cubic feet. Researchers have shown that this is the equivalent volume of over 500 semitrailers of space. Without getting into all the math, the 16,000-plus animals would have occupied much less than half the space in the Ark (even allowing them some moving-around space). Source: https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/were-dinosaurs-on-noahs-ark/ See also: https://answersingenesis.org/dinosaurs/footprints/in-the-footsteps-of-giants/

The ark is a beautiful picture of salvation by grace through faith The ark is a beautiful picture of salvation by grace through faith. There was no other way to be saved from destruction in that day except by coming into the God's ark of refuge. The world was warned for 120 years of impending judgment. The ark had one door in the side. Later in history Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not heed them. I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." (John 10:7-11). (source: www.ldolphin.org/flood.shtml)

Noah's name means "comfort" or "rest," and looks ahead to the words of Jesus, « Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. » (source: www.ldolphin.org/flood.shtml)

1) If 150 days were needed for the water to recede, it must have been universal. 2) The size of the ark indicates that this was no local flood. 3) If the flood was only local, why was the ark necessary at all? 4) The purpose of the flood was the punishment of world-wide sin. A local flood would not do; some could have escaped by just travelling to another region. 5) All over the world we can find accounts of the flood. (Indicates that it must have been universal.)