Was the story of Noah's Ark true? Archaeologist who found the Titanic claims Biblical flood DID happen 12,000 years ago

• Acclaimed oceanographer Robert Ballard says he has found evidence
• Claims massive flood happened in Black Sea region around 5600BC
• Waters cascaded down Turkey's Straits of Bospurus and into sea
• It is believed to have started story of Noah, which was then passed on

A flood of Biblical proportions just like in the story of Noah's Ark may have actually happened, according to the oceanographer who found the Titanic.

Acclaimed underwater archaeologist Robert Ballard claims his team of researchers have uncovered evidence that suggests The Great Flood described in the Bible was actually based on real events.

The Nephilim

So I'm teaching through the book of Genesis out at the prison. And the other day we got to one of the stranger passages in the bible. To get ready for the class I had to spend some time looking into the Nephilim. You'll recall the text:

        Genesis 6.1-4 (NIV)
    When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

    The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

Mad World – giants and nephilim Is there a cover-up in the findings of evidence for giants?

There   were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the   sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to   them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Genesis 6:4

Stretch your mind back to your childhood. What giants do you remember? Jack and the Beanstalk? Hercules? Paul Bunyan? Goliath? What were you told and what did you read? With the exception of Goliath and an occasional ornery cyclops, legends emphasized their innate goodness, eye-popping feats accomplished with unparalleled strength, victories over the bad guys and all performed by “gentle giants”. What if it were all a lie? What if the truth were something much MUCH more sinister?

Dicționar biblic: Noe

NOE. Ultimul dintre cei zece patriarhi dinainte de potop şi supravieţuitorul potopului A fost fiul lui Lameh, care era de 182 de ani (Pentateuhul Samaritean, 53; LXX, 188) când s-a născut Noe (Geneza 5:28-29; Luca 3:36).

a. Numele

Etimologia numelui noah, este incertă, cu toate că mulţi contemporani o leagă de rădăcina nwh, „a se odihni", în Geneza (5:29) cuvântul este asociat cu verbul nhm (tradus „mângăiere" în VA şi VR; „a aduce mângăiere" în VSR), cu care se pare că este înrudit şi din punct de vedere etimologic; cu toate că lucrul acesta nu este cerut în mod obligatoriu de text. Elementul nhm apare în numele personale amorite şi în numele Nahmizuli care apare într-un fragment despre Hur din Epopeea lui Ghilgameş , găsită la Bogazkoy, capitala hitită din Asia Mică. În LXX, numele apare Noe, formă în care apare şi în NT.

Who Were the Nephilim?

The Nephilim (Hebrew: נפלים, Nefilīm) were a race that came to dominate the antediluvian (pre-flood) world, and are referred to in the Bible as the heroes of old, men of renown. They were reportedly the children born to the "Sons of God" by the "daughters of men", and are described as giants. It is also most important to note that they are mentioned almost simultaneous to God's statement that He would destroy the earth by flood, and it seems from this association that their effect upon mankind was one of the primary justifications that brought the destruction.