...Noah and The Great Flood The Great Flood is a story that is questioned by some people, historians, and theologians. There always will be a question of whether this event really happened. If someone really believes that the messages in the Bible are real and they are coming from God, then that someone would believe that this event really happened. The messages in the Bible are lessons from God, he tries to teach us and tell us how to conduct our lives. This story is one of his lessons; he is trying to tell us something through this story. God uses Noah to reward humankind with his grace and mercy; he wanted to give humankind another chance to redeem themselves. With the story of the Great Flood, God recreates the world. God had to destroy humankind because of what they have turned into, evil and disobedient. God could see that humankind was lost in sin. They forgot all about him, he who created them. He did not like what his creation had turned into. God then made a decision to destroy and eliminate humankind from earth. Humankind made God regret the fact that he created them. But there was a good man, which God wanted to save, because he was good and faithful servant to him. Noah had an unbelievable faith in his Lord, so God trusted Noah. Noah was the man that God loved and cared for because Noah had shown his faith to him (Moore, 2005). Noah was the tenth in line from Adam, having descended from the line of Seth. He was the son of Lamech, as well as the grandson...
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...Liberty University’s Standard Lesson Plan Form |Lesson Plan: Hands on Mathematic | |Name: Charity Burns |Course: EDUC 360 | |LESSON PREPARATION [Before the lesson] | |Topic: Shapes and colors poster/ addition and subtraction |Specific Strategy: Introduction to the definition of taste, | | |the sensory descriptors, and the body part that helps us | | |taste things. | |Subject: math |Grade: 1st grade | |State Standard: | |1.A.1.1 Model addition and subtraction situations using the concepts of "part-whole," "adding to," "taking away from," "comparing," and | |"missing addend." | |Addition with...
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...story of David and Goliath. David was only a child in Saul’s army. He was tired of the giant, Goliath, mocking God and taunting the people of God. He gain courage and remained courageous through his life by standing up to Goliath and defeating him with “a sling shot and five smooth stones in his pocket” (Samuel). Just like David conquered his giant, children who are allowed to be kids and take risks can conquer their giants and become courageous adults. While courage is a great start, allowing kids to take on danger and uncomfortable tasks builds confidence and character to face any adversity and believe that great change can happen. In the Book of Genesis, Noah was building an ark for the great flood that was coming forewarned by God (Noah's Ark). Instead of doubting God and being afraid to do the abnormal, Noah built his ark and waited on God to do the...
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...To compare the theme of exiles into nature in Gilgamesh, the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the Mahabharata is to compare how these exiles were brought upon the heroes and the consequences when the hero returns to society. The difference between the Mahabharata and the other three epics, is that the exile of the Kuravas was imposed on them by others. Though Yudhisthira is technically the only one in the family who brought it upon himself by playing the crooked dice game. For the most part, the exile of the Kuravas is not self-imposed. This is very different to the exiles seen in the western epics. In the Iliad, Achilles exiles himself for feeling shamed by Agamemnon, he chooses not to fight and instead have hundreds of his countrymen die. In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh chooses to abandon his kingdom for an unplanned amount of time on a search for immortality somewhere in nature because of Enkidu’s death. Both Achilles and Gilgamesh exile themselves because of strong feelings they get. The exile of Odysseus is about brought on by himself, by making Poseidon extra mad, not leaving Calypso’s Island, among other transgressions against the gods. The results of these exiles are quite similar, when the hero returns to society they hav some form of enhanced ability or thinking process. In Gilgamesh, the hero returns to his kingdom, with the knowledge that physical objects can grant him a form of immortality. In the Iliad, Achilles is already known as the strongest Greek warrior, but when...
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...is a stowaway, a small woodworm. It retells the biblical story of Noah's Ark from Its point of view. The original biblical "metanarritive" is about a righteous person named Noah, who was chosen to be saved from a horrible flood that was to destroy all living creatures and plants on earth. He was, by God's demand to build an ark and save his family and animals. Using vivid images very detailed descriptions and somewhat a humorous and cynical tone of what went on during this famous voyage Barnes tells us a slightly different version of the original Noah's Ark story. Barnes chapter begins with letting readers know that this voyage was not a luxurious cruise nor was it as we pictured it when we learned the biblical version as youngsters. Noah, the man whom was chosen to survive had craftsmen to build the ships, as there was more than one ship to be built. The ships were made all from gopher wood; there were stalls for animals that were secured with double peg locks for security. The species which boarded the ships were picked not randomly, but by attending a beauty contest, only the best pair of breed species was picked to go up on ship and the others were left to drown. Some animals were brought not in pairs of two but in pairs of seven. These animals which were called "clean animals" had mixed feelings, as they felt superior when boarding the ship but realize that sooner rather than later, they will be Noah's and his family dinner. Only the "clean animals" were allowed to...
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...In the J and P Flood narratives there are three similar themes that can be also seen in other ancient myths such as the Near Ancient Floods told by Utnapishtim, the Flood in Mesopotamian literature and the Gilgamesh Flood story. In all the flood stories the deteriorating relations humans and the soil are a portion of why the flood occurs. The divinely ordained separation of the divine from human realms is another attribute and the continuous corruption of humanity leads to the flood. Inanother example of anthropomorphism, and promised never again to curse the ground regardless of human wickedness. In the P version of the flood, we find similar language as seen in the P account of Creation. The same reasons that brought about the flood in J are in P but instead of seven pairs of clean animals and two pairs of unclean animals, Noah is instructed to bring two of every kind of animal and they are to be male and female. The idea of having male and female animals is thought to be because of reproduction among the different species once the flood ends. Genesis 7. 11 say “All the fountains of great Deep burst forth and the windows of the heavens were opened.” The flood lasted a year opposed to the 40 days and nights in the J version of the flood. At the end of the flood, creation was renewed and ravens were released instead of doves. Genesis 9:1 says “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth”, which displays the second creation. Humans are now allowed to eat meat but are warned...
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...almost always forms the cultural plot to describe a bad or good point in time. Certain sequences of myths describe a situation where god destroys mankind for not going through with their intentions when they created mankind, by creating a massive flood. These stories include: “Noah’s Ark”, “Tata and Nena”, and the “Deucalion”. All of these stories have cultural aspects that provide similarities and differences in each other. One thing that is important to point out is that “Tata and Nena”, “Deucalion”, and “Noah’s Ark” all explain what happened to the world after it was destroyed, in different ways. For example in the story of “Deucalion”, “Tlaloc then appeared to them and said, “This is how I am repaid for saving your lives?” They were changed into dogs” (Bierlein30). In the story “Tata and Nena”, they were asked to only eat corn but instead they ate fish, so then Tlaloc got mad and turned them into dogs, in a world that was completely destroyed with no intention of repopulation. In the “Deucalion” story, “These rocks were transformed into people who repopulated the earth” (Deucalion30). Rocks were thrown behind Zeus who then was turned to people who soon remade the world all over again. Also the myth of “Noah’s Ark” has a different story, “God then repopulated the world with what Noah had saved. Like the one of each animal” (Noah29). God decided to make the world again and used the animals Noah saved to do so. This all proves that all of the stories had a different way of explaining...
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...There are many similarities between the Gilgamesh flood and also the story “Noah’s Ark” in the bible. (I’ll point out a few similarities after I explain one that stuck out to me) God chose an angelic man to build an ark for he knows of an approaching flood. Pairs of all species and animals were to be on the ark, while birds were used once the flood was finished to determine if there was any dry land for them to go to. Just like in the bible, in the story Gilgamesh there was a flood as well. Parts of the Gilgamesh story (Chaldean Flood Tablets) have been found going back to 2000 BC or possibly earlier. The Tablets tell you about how Babylonian God decided to end all life except for the ark dwellers with a great flood. Their God believed by the Babylonians to be the ‘god’ who created the earth and had Utnapishtum to construct the six story square ark. God (or several gods in the Gilgamesh account) decided to destroy humankind because of its wickedness and sinfulness (Genesis 6:5–7). • A righteous man (Genesis 6:9) was directed to build an ark to save a limited and select group of people and all species of animals (Noah received his orders directly from Jehovah God, Utnapishtim from a dream). • Both arks were huge, although their shapes differed. Noah’s was rectangular; Utnapishtim’s was square and they both contained single doors with at least one window • A great rain covered the land and mountains with water, although some water emerged from beneath the earth...
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...These include but are not limited to the Choctaw that reside/resided in the Mississippi region, the Chitimacha from Southern Louisiana, and the tarascan from northern Michoacan, Mexico. There are even more stories from there are even more stories from Central America. Cora (east of the Huichols), Zapotec (Oaxaca, southern Mexico), and Totonac (eastern Mexico) are all great examples of tribes with similar flood stories. There are literally thousands of different flood stories from all across the globe that share striking resemblance to the Gilgamesh epic and to Noah’s story in the...
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...Noah's Ark Article Evaluation Long ago, after Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered the world and from there on, evil was in the hearts of every human. God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and the Lord said he would destroy every living thing on earth with a massive flood. Noah was the only exception for Noah had found grace in the eyes of the Lord so the Lord instructed him to build an Ark and to bring his family and two of every kind of animal so the world could be reborn. Some people believe this story from the bible to be true while others claim it to be false, but there is evidence to back this story up. Firstly, we know that people have found fossils from all around the world including high mountains. The only way for a fossil to form is for immediate water, mud, and pressure. The best reason for there being fossils found all around the world would be a world wide flood because a catastrophe like this would best be able to form fossils. Also, fossils have been found on very high mountains, meaning that these mountains had to have been underwater...
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...Ashley Ryan 12/7/2011 Evaluation of “The Notebook” It’s common to find most love stories come with a happily ever after. This predictable ending seems semi-unrealistic, but is also a fantasy for some. Disney movies often capture this ideal point of view of a relationship, perfect from start to finish. It overlooks the actuality and different series of problems that can occur between two people. The movie “The Notebook”, based off Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel, is a beautiful story that captures the emotion of a forbidden summer love remaining strong through distance and complicated times. The movie begins with an elderly man and woman. This man reads the story aloud from an old, worn out book. The story is about a small town country boy, Noah, chasing after a city girl named Allie. Noah does everything it takes to become a part of Allie’s life. The two grew close, spending most of their time together even making dreams for their future. Noah and Allie had their share of arguments but nothing permanently damaging. The true conflict arises when Allie’s parents step in and demand the relationship to end. Noah and Allie come from two different classes with opposite standards and wealth. With the summer coming to an end, Allie’s parents force her to leave town. Within the blink of an eye the two teenagers are separated from each other, without any closure. Seven years pass and Allie is off meeting new people and creating a new life for herself. Noah on the other hand is...
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...Neessa Fleurant 04/27/12 ENGL 175 Major influence Although the narrative or story of Noah and the flood is one of the great stories in the Bible, many question its originality. The biblical version of the flood in Genesis 6-10 is “quite close in many respects to the Mesopotamian flood stories” (The New Oxford Annotated Bible pg 19), which were written beforehand. As much as they are similar, there are significant differences that distinguish the two tales and their reliability. The epic of Gilgamesh, written by the Sumerians between 2700 B.C. and 600 B.C., is the most famous parallel to the story of Noah in the bible. It focuses on the king of Uruk Gilgamesh, and his quest for immortality after the death of his friend. This quest leads him to Utnapishtim, (character equivalent to the biblical Noah) who is the “immortal flood hero” (Wikipedia). Utnapishtim then recounts to Gilgamesh the story of how he survived the flood. There are seven main similarities between the flood in the epic of Gilgamesh and that of Genesis. The foremost and obvious is that both of the characters were warned to build a boat to escape a flood. Secondly families of both Noah and Utnapishtim were saved along with the sampling of animals they were instructed to gather. Third, both floods are believed to have occurred on or in the Mesopotamian plain. Next come the fact that both boats were sealed with tar, and during the flood both men sent out a dove and raven to determine...
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...kitchen. The loud voices of my sibilings and parents in the living room. It was just before 7:00 a.m., I rolled over got dressed and headed to the table where I ate the delicious bacon and egg burritos. My sister Amanda and Madisyn were sitting next to me, my father was at the front of the table, and my mother was sitting at the end.My brother RJ phone rang and he got a call from his friends to take the boat out that day, and Madisyn decided to join in on the adventure to Saquaro lake.. After breakfeast, myself and Amanda got dressed, and we headed to church. We got there just before 8:45 am, and 9:00 A.M. is when service started. My sister Amanda was a Worship Teacher, so I decided to join her in the classroom.The theme of the day was “Noah’s Ark”. We created a wood boat and then we used different animals to put on the boat, and we put it in a water to reinact the misson of Noahs Ark. I helped one student with creating the visual aid, and helped her build her boat. Church concluded around 11:30 and we went to lunch as a family as we normally do after church. We decided lunch at Fuddruckers was the place to go. Fudruckers is located pretty close to the mall where we could shop and eat lunch. My mother, father, Amanda, and I just sat down for lunch.As I was ordering, I was watching people take there juicy burgers with French fries to there table, I could tell my mouth was starting to fell like the inside of an abandonded railray station, I was definently hungry. When we...
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...Notion of a Great Deluge Name Institutional Affiliation Notion of a Great Deluge The notion of a great deluge is often associated with the story of the great flood in the Bible. However, several early cultures across the world have legends and myths when at one time in the past a shocking deluge wiped nearly all life on earth. Nonetheless, habitually a deity caused all these deluge stories to end civilization and bring about divine retribution (Issar, 2014). Most of them also have a hero who is chosen to survive. A discussion entailing the notion of a great deluge will be made with proofs of a flood in the respective regions being made available. In the Genesis flood narrative, God is disgusted with the profundity of the sinful nature of man thus resolving to flood the earth. Noah, a righteous man, is instructed to build an ark. After the ark’s completion, Noah, his household, and male and female representatives of all animals are called upon to enter it (Issar, 2014). The deluge destroys all life, not in the ark. Later, the waters recede and all those aboard can get off from it besides God promising never to send a flood again. The rainbow serves as the sign of God’s promise. In the flood story of the Babylonians, the gods undertake to wipe out civilization owing to disturbances due to human overpopulation. They first used a plague and famine but did not succeed. Enlil then advised the other gods to use a flood, but Enki instructed Atrahasis to build...
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...Natalie Sorto Essay Question 1: Biblical Worldview Professor Stroh 10/1/2015 As we know, everyone has his or her own worldview. Take a peek into mine as I talk about human identity, natural world, human relationships, and civilization. After reading Genesis 1-11 we’ve seen how God has worked with those four major concepts, and how He has shaped our world today. In Genesis 3:11-12 (Then He asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?” Then the man replied, “The woman You gave to be with me-she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”) Before eating from the tree neither Adam nor Eve knew that they were naked, nor did they care. From my worldview, this is when God put human identity into play. By man not obeying God, we suddenly felt insecure about having our bodies covered, causing Adam to hide when he heard God call for him. Even when they disobeyed God, he turned around and sewed clothes for them; I believe God created human identity to prove that even when we disobey God, He won’t turn his back on us and he’ll continue to provide for us even when we don’t deserve it. From reading the Theology of Work Project I became more familiar with the natural world and coming to realize that, “The book of Genesis is the foundation for the theology of work” says Theology of Work Project. What I mean by this is that before taking this class, yes I was a believer but I hadn’t read much into the Bible. From reading...
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