superluminal said:
Did it rain for 40 days, 24 hours a day (40 days and nights)? Yes, it did. The bible is extremely clear on this.
The number 40 means "eternity" in the Bible. It isn't a literal number. Neither is eternity literal. Hell is said to be eternal for example. Neither is thousand years always "1000" years.
In fact, it wouldn't be rain but a pressurized stream of water. The ark would have been destroyed in seconds.
The "it-covered-the-whole-earth" isn't literal either. It is natural to use absolute words like "whole" without exactly meaning that. The Bible isn't a history book with literally correct information.
It indeed wasn't ordinary rain. And at times, it was like a pressurized stream of water. But the sons of God (like Noah and Gilgamesh) had devices in their boats which always held them in balance. The boats were locked from all sides. No water could come inside them. The boats also had resistance against radiation which go through matter. When the flood occured, the sons of God were already a long way from the epicenter of the catastrophe (which was somewhere in Africa, probably a great part of the land sank into the sea)
To understand many things on earth you have to understand something about the evolution of earth.
A very long time ago there lived a very different human race on earth. They followed the law of the spirit fully. Their consciousness was on a divine state and they expressed God (the real self) on earth without mixing it with bodily properties (like egoism) The "spirit" wasn't shadowed by bodily lusts. In their divine purity, they truly deserved the name: sons of God.
This highly developed race knew all the secrets of nature and since they also knew their own powers, and ruled over them, they could control them. Their knowledge had no boundaries. They didn't have to gain their food with hard physical work. They let the laws of nature do the work.
They knew all the laws of nature, the secrets of energy, and also their own being. They knew how energy is transformed to matter and reversed. They had equipment by which they could store all the powers of nature and also their own spiritual powers (two of these equipment were preserved, the staff of life and the other, which was was later to be called the Ark of the Covenant) They could neutralize the attraction of the earth and dematerialize (which means to convert it into another energy form) surfaces of stones, so that they could carve them as if they were made of butter. This is probably how the things at Baalbek were made. Although, at that time, I don't think the original sons of God lived anymore.
These people were not only great in wisdom and love but they also had a greater physical size than us. The Bible and other religious scripts mentions giants. I guess they could have been about 3 meters tall.
At the time when they were still on earth, our human race didn't exist, but there was another very primitive human race (maybe Neanderthals). Spiritually bored, they completely unified with their body. They lived in the woods, fighting against nature, each other and animals. The giant people (also called the sons of God, nephilim and anak) had children with these primitive humans and these two races blended into the human race of today. Logically, only the male giants had children with them.
(due to natural laws of inheritance, a member of the great race has to be born on earth at defined intervals, even at the darkest times. He will show mankind the way out of darkness and pain)
A few of these primitive humans inherited some of the spiritual knowledge from their father's side, but also the egoistic nature from their mother's side (some only inherited their size, like Goliat in the Bible) When the original giants had already long ago vanished from earth, some of our race (anakim, the son of man) sneaked into the temples and stole the powerful equipment from the sons of God. In the hands of egoistic people, they caused the flood.
The descendants who inherited the elongated head, and all the spiritual abilities and "magical" knowledge from their fathers side, knew that the "black magicians" (people who use inner powers egoistically; like if you use speech to do evil to someone for personal gain) would lead to their doom, and that the flood would come from that, so they fled from that country into 4 directions. They ruled as kings over the primitive humans (like sumerians and aztecs) and teached them mathematics, astrology, astronomy, and generally about life and love.
This is why the king and princess is always chosen from the family, because they were supposed to have "royal" (or divine) blood in their veins. Of course, this is no longer true. No one today has elongated heads or are 3 meters tall. But still, some of the "giants" can be detected among us by our inner "gifts" (like Jesus, Moses, Socrates, Hermes, Tesla etc)
Wherever the sons of God set their foot, a great culture emerged. In some cultures they were honored and in other cultures, where people were not ready to accept their knowledge, they were treated badly and killed.
How could a volume of water sufficient to cover the entire earth to a depth of 29,000 feet come from a tiny desert area of the earth?
It wasn't just a little desert. And like I said, it wasn't a desert at that time (5000-6000 years ago). The entire continent transformed into radiation energy, ascended up to the outmost layer of the atmosphere and then came back, in almost all kinds of basic energy forms. It wasn't just water, but also much sand and mud. The continents on the other sides of earth were ripped apart from this incredible event. The partly destroyed continent has been preserved as a great desert in the land which is now called Africa.
