This will be a short topic but I felt the question should be posted. Obviously I've been thinking about Noah's ark lately and keep coming up with more and more questions (and even more to come).Here we go.
After the flood took place. Aside from who is on the ark, everyone is dead. Every creature is dead. The Earth's surface is completely destroyed. After the long journey at sea... once back on land... what did they eat? How did Noah's family survive. They couldn't eat the animals on the boat because they needed to breed and spread. There would be no animals today. You know they didn't have to wait several months with no food, waiting for the animals to repopulate and crops to grow.
So, what did they eat?
Funny thought... maybe we're "supposed" to have more kinds of animals than we actually have (hint hint... they ate some).
Some may say that he prepared food on his ark upon completion of building it. What kind of food though? There were no freezers, therefore meat would spoil. Bread would mold within a week. Fruits and vegetables would rot within a week or two. Yes, our food may last longer these days but they didn't have the luxury of refridgerators, tupperware or plastic baggies. Even if it lasted a month (which there is no way did I don't think), this certainly wouldn't last most of the following year for the animals and crops to spread.
What did they feed the animals on the ship (the tigers... the bears)? What did any of the animals eat on land? Did the carnivore (meat-eater) animals make some species immediately go extinct (if you catch my drift)?
Part of me wanted to believe that they could have eaten fish while on the ship. But during those 40 days/nights... with history's biggest storm taking place, 23 foot high waves crashing, lightening, hurricane winds, and severe rains... I doubt very seriously Noah was up top with a fishing pole.
Can one survive only on fish if they ate fish while on this island while waiting to repopulate crops and animals? We know they had wine because Noah got drunk (more proof of alcoholic wine in the Bible... reference to a past posting on alcohol).
Any thoughts?
Well, my opinion...the bible says that we didn't start eating animals until after the flood. That's when animals started to fear man. Genesis 9:2 "And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered." So we know they didn't cure some meat so that it would hold for that time on the ark. Noah had a burnt offering upon getting to land Genesis 8:20 "And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar, 21. and the lord smelled a sweet savour; and the lord said in his heart, i will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as i have done." Genesis 6:21 "And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee and for them." (speaking about food for Noah, his family and the animals.) I'm thinking that if God can bring a great flood, I'm sure he can preserve the food they brought with them. (:
ReplyDeleteI forgot an important verse about man not eating meat until after the flood Genesis 9:3 "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things."
ReplyDeleteAnother thought...it took a long time to build the ark. That should have given him time to store as much food as he would need. He may have stored a lot of grains. It says in Genesis 7:2 "Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by SEVENS, the male and his female..." Like I said in a previous post in Genesis 8:20 Noah only offered a burnt offering of the clean beasts which he had gathered by SEVENS. That leads me to believe that there were more clean beasts than unclean, so they more likely than not ate/sacrificed the remaining clean beasts upon hitting land.
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