Re: [RR] Quiz

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In a message dated 9/12/03 11:02:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we take it that way, then the same could be true for Noahs wife.  Maybe Noah wasn't married at this time either??? We're pretty sure he was married, because he had thre sons at age 500, before God instructed him on the ark. Gen 5 32 After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth.   The verse reads "You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives."   If we look at that way, Noah could have been the only one, as we could extend the supposition for Noah's wife and his sons as well.   Nonetheless, excluding the idea that Shem was at lease 13 years old, the building of the ark took 97 years at most, not 120 that most people quote.  These are probably the same people who say that the "sons of God" in Genesis 6:2 who took "daughters of men" to be their wives are actually fallen angelic beings. I agree.  We also don't know how much help he had, but 90+ years is a good stretch of time to build a ship, even one as large as the ark.   Robert Hamilton ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:33:14 EDT Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [RR] Quiz Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   In a message dated 9/12/03 11:25:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, 97 years is also stretching it.  If we look at Genesis 6:18 we see that God is telling Noah what he is going to do, and mentions Noah's "sons ... and your son's wives".  This indicates that Noah's sons were married.  What was the marrying age?  Let's assume that Shem was 13 when he married (he could have been older).  Subtract 13 from the 97 years determined in Genesis 11, and we come up with 84 years. I disagree.  I think perhaps that God knew his sons would have wives when the flood came.  He is also telling them in that verse that they will go into the ark, which, by your logic, implies that it is already built. It's amazing how many people (and how many Chrisitan web sites out there) take Genesis 6:3 and use it to support their proposition that it took 120 years to build the ark. Gen 6:3 And Jehovah said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, in his erring; he is flesh. Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. Robert Hamilton Lucas Hoffmann http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aflatb/ Quaerite prime regnum Dei ‘be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you ...’ (1 Peter 3:15)