A Bible study of a Thomas; Genesis 7: part 1 (1-7)

New International Version (NIV)

7 The Lord then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation. 

Righteous is a word that means good and stuff like that but what does it actually mean, I ask the dictionary the dictionary tells me that it means “Morally right or justifiable; virtuous.” in this context, him and his whole family have to go into the ark, so that should mean the whole human race so far as his direct line of decent go back to Adam /the first man, and I know that god added some of his personal sons into the mix to have sexual intercourse with some of Adam’s offspring. Preferably with the daughters of man but how can you be certain?

2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and one pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 

But what is a clean animal? A clean animal is an animal that are ceremonially pure and fit for food, according to the Jewish encyclopaedia. So that is 7 pairs of the “clean” animals, so that is 14 of each of the clean animals what species of animal are classed as clean? According to this website Deuteronomy 14:4-5 lists 10 let’s see.

“⁴ These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, ⁵ the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.^[a]“

 Ox, can’t say I have ever eaten any, as for sheep I think I have, goat is no (three so far), the deer, the gazelle and the roe deer, aren’t they all very similar but I haven’t eaten any of them (three more six so far), the wild goat and the difference from the ordinary goat is? The fact that it hasn’t been domesticated beforehand so we still only have six clean animals the ibex isn’t that just a goat? It is basically but it has longer horns (I’ll give them that animal seven) the antelope now isn’t this just another variation of a deer (but I’ll give them that one so eight) The mountain sheep is basically a sheep that has horns so it looks like a goat, so anyway that is ten separate “clean” animals but I could only see eight being very generous but realistically it is only two base animals and they were the goat and the deer and you could probably drag each of the ten “clean” animals evolutionary roots to converge on either one of those two animals evolutionary chains thanks to natural selection and a good deal selective breeding. But I am aware that the theory of evolution isn’t directly included within this book and I am no expert on it so I shall leave it at this, out of the ten animals multiplied by 2, to get to 10 pairs, equals 20 and then multiply 20 by 7 that makes 140 animals, but what about elephants they are possibly the cleanest animals by biblical standards as they were using the shower hose before it had been invented by humans.

The unclean animals are on the pages of Leviticus 11:4-19 and Deuteronomy 14:7-18.

The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you.⁵ The hyrax, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. ⁶ The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. ⁷ And the pig, though it has a divided hoof, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. ⁸ You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

In Leviticus 11:4-8 there is so far 4 unclean animals so far but to be honest I disapprove of this accusation pigs are unclean and you must not eat their meat which means no sausages or pork but that’s the tastiest meat products. From Leviticus 11:9-19 all of the animals are creatures in the water, of which I’m guessing would just swim but that is ignoring the fact that the rain is going to mix the salt water of the sea and the fresh water of the rivers making the water undrinkable for almost every type of almost every type of animal including humans, and then we get to birds, of which I shall get to later on in this post.

⁷ However, of those that chew the cud or that have a divided hoof you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the hyrax. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof; they are ceremonially unclean for you. ⁸ The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses.

Camel, rabbit, hyrax and pig the same 4 as before so that only includes 8 animals. Its funny how none of animals mentioned aren’t any of the exotic animals, like lions or tigers, or any of the coolest animals, like polar bears or penguins. So far in total only 148 animals on the ark. Nor is the T-Rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Baryonyx, Pterodactyl, Apatosaurus, Pterodactylus, Pterosaur or even the Hadrosaurs to name just a few.

148 animals on a boat of 155.4m by 25.9 which equals 4024.86m², that ‘d be a big rectangular boat and it’s over 3 floors and I was thinking that the 3 floors didn’t include the main deck now that would have been an engineering master piece for its time especially seeing as it had a flat base, that is the only way to fit 3 levels in to a boat which is only 15.54m high without losing the bottom one and making the top deck an inhabitable area for the animals other than the human animals.

3 and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth. 4 Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature I have made.”

Seven pairs of birds now so it’s time to look at this website for the birds and that website directed me to two bible passages, Leviticus 11:13-19 and Deuteronomy 14:9-18, so now it seems like I am checking the information on those pages,

¹³ “‘These are the birds you are to regard as unclean and not eat because they are unclean: the eagle,[a] the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite, 15 any kind of raven,16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 19 the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

From Leviticus it doesn’t give a definite number as it has any kind of black kite, any kind of raven and any kind of hawk I know I could research the three terms to get a definite more number, actually I may do that but if I kept each of those type of bird as 1animal that should give me 20 types of unclean bird. But there is another thing glaringly wrong with the with the examples it is the fact that bats aren’t birds they’re actually more like flying rats than pigeons, by that I mean they’re small mammals. Like rats, but they fly.

¹¹ You may eat any clean bird. ¹² But these you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture,¹³ the red kite, the black kite, any kind of falcon, ¹⁴ any kind of raven, ¹⁵ the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, ¹⁶ the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, ¹⁷ the desert owl, the osprey, the cormorant, ¹⁸ the stork, any kind of heron, the hoopoe and the bat.

The above text is from Deuteronomy 14:11-18 the first difference to the creatures that are listed is that on this text it only has “the black kite and not any kind of black kite and then after wards it adds a new type of birds as it says “any kind of falcon” and again for god’s sake. I think that it is appropriate to type that now, as a bat isn’t a bird, So that makes 21 unclean birds/42 into the arc.

Now to the Clean birds of the bible I have gotten these from the same little website as the above website, the one about birds from the bible but I have taken all the birds

5 And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.

And the lord was pleased? Just guessing, and no god wasn’t pleased; he’s too vain to say that he was pleased at the seemingly impossible task to complete by one man at the times that this chapter is set.

6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on th earth. 

Now hang on another second didn’t his lordship god say that everyone should die at 120 within the wickedness of the world just a short time ago?

7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. 

Now should we count up the people that are going to be on the ark, so there is Noah, his wife, Noah’s three sons and they’re wives, now we don’t know how many of them there is. If Noah was a real person he should worried by now about his grandchildren as they are going to have to have sexual intercourse with they’re cousins to make the human race as it is today, within every colour, now you must be talking about evolution at relatively light speed to make the human species as diverse as it is today. Unless you have a belief in the X-men and the facet that they are among us as we speak, in more than just the comic books and every spin off series since; which obviously isn't a fact at least not to my knowledge.