The Flood! Genesis 8:1-5 NLT

I found this interesting and thought I would share. From David Guzik Enduring Word Bible Study:

"Literally hundreds of people groups have their own accounts and legends of the flood. One of the most remarkable is the Babylonian account, which is similar to the Genesis account in many ways and is clearly drawn from it. Since all mankind came from Noah’s sons, all mankind remembers the flood.

Boice specifically cites the legends of the Samo-Kubo tribe of New Guinea, the Athapascan Indians of America, the Papago Indians of Arizona, Brazilian tribes, Peruvian Indians, African Hottentots, natives of Greenland, native Hawaiian islanders, Hindus, Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Australian natives, the Welsh, Celts, Druids, Siberians, and Lithuanians.

Of the more than 200 cultures that have their own account of the flood the following aspects of the story are common:

· 88% describe a favored family

· 70% attribute survival to a boat

· 95% say the sole cause of the catastrophe is a flood

· 66% say that the disaster is due to man’s wickedness

· 67% record that animals are also saved

· 57% describe that the survivors end up on a mountain

· Many of the accounts also specifically mention birds being sent out, a rainbow, and eight persons being saved.

Amazing, isn't it? 

Genesis 8:1-5 NLT

1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede.  2 The underground waters stopped flowing, and the torrential rains from the sky were stopped.  3 So the floodwaters gradually receded from the earth. After 150 days,  4 exactly five months from the time the flood began, the boat came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.  5 Two and a half months later, as the waters continued to go down, other mountain peaks became visible. 

Blessings, Cecilia