Why Noah’s Ark?
Having been created in perfection and given a right to live and dominate the earth, mankind chose evil and eventually became so corrupt that God could stand it no longer. The suffering had to be stopped. Yet God did find someone whom God could trust to carry on the lineage of both man and beast, and this someone was Noah.
Noah’s inclination toward God put him in a position to escape the coming wrath. God didn’t take Noah and his family to heaven while the earth was washed clean. No, he gave Noah instructions whereby Noah could – with his own hands – build a refuge, an escape. In other words, Noah was saved by responding to divine instruction. By faith, Noah believed God and acted on that faith, saving himself, his family, and the progeny of the living creatures he was entrusted with.
Noah’s Ark was a literal ship, and Noah’s Flood was a literal global disaster. The Biblical account is not just a metaphor. There is a tremendous amount of evidence available to anyone willing to question the popular view of earth history. For example: as the Bible clearly states (and as modern science confims), all life was created according to kind, and both plant and animal life do not “evolve” outside of those kinds (to assume it does is to go beyond observable science). Horses remain horses, dogs remain dogs, cats remain cats. (If they can breed, they are likely of the same kind.) This means that Noah only needed a representative pair of each kind of land and air animal to reside on the ark. This puts the total number at no more than 1400 kinds, and most of those taken on the ark were likely adolescents. The Ark’s dimensions given in the Bible is consistent with what Noah and his family would have needed to care for this many animals during their limited stay. It approaches but does not exceed the maximum possible size of a wooden vessel.
We now know that its design as described in the Bible was brilliant. Tests have shown an amazing resilience to extreme waves. No matter the weather outdoors, the passengers would have remained safe, sound, and stable inside such a vessel.
Just as God closed the door of the ark behind Noah and his family, God will one day close the door on the evil of this present age. Noah’s experience is a sobering reminder that mankind has a limited time to repent and receive by faith the grace offered in Jesus. It’s not complicated. Believe in the Lord Jesus from your heart. Act on this faith by seeking His will in the Bible and prayer. Jesus *is* the Ark of this age. Stay in Him and you will live forever!
(For more information, visit https://www.icr.org/ and https://answersingenesis.org/ and see other articles here with the Creationism tag)
(Genesis 1:26-28, Genesis 1:24, Genesis 6:5-7, Hebrews 11:7, Genesis 6:11-14, Genesis 6:15, Luke 17:26-30, Genesis 7:16)