Bodies From The Flood

Damascus said:
Never thought of that.
Sea creatures consuming most if not all is one possibility. Imagine though when the waters receded the dung, the remnants of a receding global sea.

Only God knows though.

I don't think we're meant to have all the answers. And not everything is to make sense.

The Genesis creation epic for instance.

Noah's story for that matter is predated by the epic of Gilgamesh.

I think the human condition is one fated to wonder about a few things for as long as we walk the earth.
Why are we here? And, what's the point of a higher powers ego needing to be appeased by lesser beings behaviors when that higher power created them to be a disappointment from the moment they were born?
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Interestingly is that there are over 200 flood legends in different cultures all over the world.

I would say that the The Epic of Gilgamesh and other ancient writings that contain Flood stories does not call the Genesis account into question. On the contrary, it provides evidence that verifies the fact of a global Flood, and is exactly what any person who has given the idea much thought would expect to happen if the Flood were a historic reality.
 
Damascus said:
Never thought of that.
Sea creatures consuming most if not all is one possibility. Imagine though when the waters receded the dung, the remnants of a receding global sea.

Only God knows though.

I don't think we're meant to have all the answers. And not everything is to make sense.

The Genesis creation epic for instance.

Noah's story for that matter is predated by the epic of Gilgamesh.

I think the human condition is one fated to wonder about a few things for as long as we walk the earth.
Why are we here? And, what's the point of a higher powers ego needing to be appeased by lesser beings behaviors when that higher power created them to be a disappointment from the moment they were born?
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I'm kind of having a hard time swallowing the idea that they were consumed by sea creatures. I have never thought about it, but not sure about this one.

Rtm
 
blueskies said:
Did he show an unusually keen interest in marine architecture?
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Not that I know of...but then the whole school was mostly Pacific islander children (he wasn't though). And I'm sure there was a unit about pacific navigation skills at one point. They made little model wakas/canoes.

I do know he was often forgetful about his library books.
 
rtm3039 said:
I'm kind of having a hard time swallowing the idea that they were consumed by sea creatures. I have never thought about it, but not sure about this one.

Rtm
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It's easy for me to imagine from watching Blue Planet. Shark, fish and other sea creatures can devour a dead body in minutes to leave a skeleton picked clean.
 
Lanolin said:
It's easy for me to imagine from watching Blue Planet. Shark, fish and other sea creatures can devour a dead body in minutes to leave a skeleton picked clean.
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That would depend on how many people it involved. I read the following:

"Others believe that Earth’s population was much higher. If the growth rate in the pre-Flood world was equal to the growth rate in 2000 (0.012), there could have been about 750 million people at the time of the Flood. However, given the extremely long lifespans prior to the Flood, the growth rate could have been much higher. Increasing the rate by just 0.001 would put the population at close to four billion at the Flood." https://answersingenesis.org/noahs-ark/pre-flood-population/

Also, "Of course the issue of pre-Flood sedimentation needs to be discussed. Rivers, such as the Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel (Tigris), and Euphrates (Genesis 2:11–14), would have been carrying some sediment for about 1656 years from the Creation.5 It is also possible for other smaller catastrophes to have occurred during this time (e.g., volcanoes). This raises an interesting question: were these sediments disturbed and/or redistributed during the Flood or were they buried in situ?" https://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/biblical-overview-of-the-flood-timeline/

So, this suggests that most of bodies were buried underneath the sediment.

Just my thoughts and I could be wrong, as I was not there.

Rtm
 
Well its obvious most were buried/crushed in the Flood, the force of wall that water would have buried them. I don't know why that would be hard to imagine.
 
Lanolin said:
Well its obvious most were buried/crushed in the Flood, the force of wall that water would have buried them. I don't know why that would be hard to imagine.
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What wall of water? What force????

The Bible does not say anything about a WALL of water of a force!!!!

Why is it so hard to believe that sea creatures ate them and what was left, the debris in the water settled on top of them.
 
rtm3039 said:
I'm kind of having a hard time swallowing the idea that they were consumed by sea creatures. I have never thought about it, but not sure about this one.

Rtm
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It's a stretch, I agree.

Conversley, imagine the world's surface if the bodies of all the dead remained once the waters receded.
🤢
 
Major said:
Interestingly is that there are over 200 flood legends in different cultures all over the world.

I would say that the The Epic of Gilgamesh and other ancient writings that contain Flood stories does not call the Genesis account into question. On the contrary, it provides evidence that verifies the fact of a global Flood, and is exactly what any person who has given the idea much thought would expect to happen if the Flood were a historic reality.
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It is curious that the epic of Gilgamesh and others precede the Genesis account.

Even the Sumerian cuneiform tablets describe the deluge. Only as I recall the craft that was constructed there was more like what we'd call a submarine.
 
Damascus said:
It's a stretch, I agree.

Conversley, imagine the world's surface if the bodies of all the dead remained once the waters receded.
🤢
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Scriptures say that the Flood was a year long event.

Science says that a body will normally float to the surface after three or four days, exposing it to sea birds and buffeting from the waves. Putrefaction and scavenging creatures will dismember the corpse in a week or two and the bones will sink to the seabed.

Bones do decay, just at a slower rate than other organic material. Depending on the conditions, this process usually takes a few years. Bones are largely a fibrous matrix of collagen fibres, impregnated with calcium phosphate.
Source: https://heimduo.org/do-bones-disintegrate-in-salt-water/

Point is that There would have been no remains to bury.
 
Damascus said:
It is curious that the epic of Gilgamesh and others precede the Genesis account.

Even the Sumerian cuneiform tablets describe the deluge. Only as I recall the craft that was constructed there was more like what we'd call a submarine.
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Agreed, There are many similarities between the Gilgamesh flood account and the biblical flood account.

Certainly, for those who believe the Bible is God’s Word, it is sensible to conclude He chose to preserve the true account in the Bible through the oral traditions of His chosen people. By God’s providence, His people kept this account pure and consistent over the centuries until Moses ultimately recorded it in the Book of Genesis. The Epic of Gilgamesh is believed to contain accounts which have been altered and embellished over the years by people not following the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
 
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