Originally Posted by
carolina73
Where did that water go? Is there a great lake under the surface?
The Earth's surface constantly changed. Mount Everest was not always a mountain.
If you believe those stories then I do not want to argue with you. The message they send is the important part.
Obviously, you're already arguing. Over time water was absorbed and evaporated.....until the ark snagged on a peak in Turkey.
Though many people assume the Flood lasted only forty days and forty nights, the Bible does not say that. When the days of the flood are totaled we find that Noah and his family, as well as the animals, were in the ark a total of 371 days. The Bible says the following about what occurred:
Noah Leaves
Bible tell us when Noah entered the ark:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened (
Genesis 7:11).
The Bible also records when Noah and his family disembarked from the ark.
And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth . . . and in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried (
Genesis 8:13,
14).
The people and animals were in the ark for over one year.