WEBVTT 00:00:07.360 --> 00:00:12.000 Welcome to the Preaching the Cross Radio Podcast, featuring the radio ministry of Pastor James W. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:14.800 Knox of the Bible Baptist Church of Delaney, Florida. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:25.039 Our prayer is that these half-hour Bible study programs will bring the lost to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and enable the saved to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Savior. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.359 Now here's your host, Pastor James W. 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:28.079 Knox. 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.439 All right, a very pleasant good day to each and every one of you. 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:40.159 Whether you like it or not, I'm Brother James. 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:42.960 And this is the Preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:44.000 You probably ought to like it. 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:48.159 You probably ought to like the fact that I'm Brother James, because that means that you don't have to be. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:02.560 And then we either repent of those that are misused and allow the Lord to straighten them out, or we just go on and live in the flesh and make a mess out of things. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.280 But I'm who I am by the grace of God, and so are you. 00:01:05.359 --> 00:01:07.599 And this is the preaching of the Cross Radio Broadcast. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.000 We're awfully happy that you've tuned into the program today. 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:11.439 Believe that you will be as well. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.599 Believe that God will use the program today to be a help and a blessing to you in your personal life. 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:30.480 If you're not saved, that we might in some way, shape, or form show you some truth that will compel you to examine and to consider the claims of the Lord Jesus Christ and his offer of salvation as a free gift through his death, his burial, and his resurrection. 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:38.239 And if you are saved and born again, we believe God will use the program to instruct you and encourage you in the things pertaining to the Christian life. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:02:03.439 We're continuing on in a series of broadcasts dealing with the Bible as science, in which we are showing you conclusively, beyond any shadow of doubt, that the Bible is the greatest book on science ever written, and that anyone who says that the uh the the basis, a safe basis for rejecting the Bible as being the word of God is by considering science, knows either nothing about science, nothing about the Bible, or both of the above. 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:13.439 The Bible is the greatest book on science ever written, and not one fact of true science has ever contradicted one statement of any verse of Scripture anywhere in the Word of God. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:25.840 We have tackled on four radio broadcasts the arguments against Jonah and the whale, and shown beyond any shadow of a doubt that a man can be swallowed by a whale and live to tell the story. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:33.360 We want to take up on the program today modern science versus Noah and the Ark. 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:36.319 Modern science versus Noah and the Ark. 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:39.360 We're not going to talk about the flood just yet, we'll get to that. 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:42.080 We want to talk about Noah and the Ark. 00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:46.479 Perhaps we should call this study ignorance and the Ark. 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:54.560 For like so many other so-called scientific objections to the truth of God's Word, the arguments that are directed against the record of the Ark spring out of ignorance. 00:02:54.879 --> 00:03:05.120 On this, as upon all other scriptural subjects, the person who challenges the inspiration and truth of the Bible succeeds magnificently in just one particular. 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:11.120 That is, he advertises a boundless and abounding personal ignorance of the subject upon which he speaks. 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:21.599 I have often observed that objections made to the biblical account of Noah's Ark are never made from the standpoint of knowledge, but from the viewpoint of misunderstanding. 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:39.199 Many years ago, uh in a small town in America, a local infidel was boasting in one of the community centers there, that he was too educated to believe the Bible, and after thorough study, he had rejected it entirely. 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:45.599 One day in an informal discussion, this wise unbeliever hung himself, as calves are said to do when they have plenty of rope. 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:56.080 Turning to the teacher, who had for an hour confounded him in every point, the exasperated infidel asked, Do you believe the story of the Ark that Noah built? 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.639 The teacher replied, I certainly do. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:01.360 A foxy gleam in the eye of the infidel. 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:04.960 He said, Tell me, how long was the ark? 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.879 Three hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high came the answer. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:11.599 It must have weighed several hundred pounds. 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.080 The questioner slyly continued. 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:18.560 Why certainly, replied the victim, it probably weighed several hundred tons. 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:31.040 Then cried the infidel in unholy, gleeful triumph, if the Bible is true as you claim it is, how could those two priests in Exodus pick up the Ark and carry it across the Red Sea? 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:33.040 That's true. 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:34.879 That is a true story. 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.639 That's a true story that actually took place in a debate. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.040 Now it's not too much to say that this is a typical attitude. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:53.680 The critic who wisely discourses on the scientific impossibility of the story of the Ark hardly knows that there was an Ark of the Covenant, as well as the Ark of the Deluge. 00:04:53.920 --> 00:05:06.319 No believer ever need fear what science may say about the Ark of Noah, for science has said all it can say here, and its statements substantiate the account of that Ark as the record is given in the book of Genesis. 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.959 In certain learned circles, it is considered quite witty to poke fun at Mr. 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:12.240 Noah's houseboat. 00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:21.439 Even the brilliant doctor Brisbane, writing in his column, newspaper syndicated column, used to write against the ark on every chance he got. 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:33.439 Speaking of the giant reptiles called dinosaurs, which some believe roamed the earth ages ago, Brisbane said that they were ninety feet long and weighed a hundred tons, and he said that Noah must have been crowded in the Ark with two of these. 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.839 Now his honesty of intent is evidenced when he later says they roamed the earth five hundred million years ago. 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.240 This is typical of the scientific criticism of the Bible. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:52.959 First of all, as evolutionists, they point to a time five hundred million years ago and talk about dinosaurs that then became extinct. 00:05:53.199 --> 00:06:01.040 And then they go back to an ark that was built 5,000 years ago and say, we don't believe the story of the Ark, because how would you get the dinosaurs on there? 00:06:01.519 --> 00:06:12.319 Now either these people are are st if if they're that stupid, you need to take the driver's licenses away from them and keep a watch on them twenty-four hours a day if they're that stupid. 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:24.879 If not, they just spout off at the mouth classic examples of why no Bible believer should ever be intimidated by the arguments of science. 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:33.680 Now the story of the Ark has frequently been picked out as a weak point in the Bible's claim to full and absolute inspiration. 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.160 However, the critics may as well give up hope. 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.399 There are no weak points in the Bible. 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:47.120 Every section of the scripture that is or has ever been under fire has emerged from the crucible secure for all time. 00:06:47.519 --> 00:06:51.600 Especially is this so when the point has been a scientific one. 00:06:52.079 --> 00:07:05.040 Some time ago, a scientist who's a Christian was delivering a series of addresses in a small town in Texas and came into violent contact with a local infidel, an agnostic who had gained a good deal of pseudoscientific information. 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:10.639 Vain speculation and impossible wild guesses all were accepted by him without effort. 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:15.759 He was somewhat feared locally because of a superficial knowledge of scientific language. 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:22.399 The Christian locked horns with him many times until finally he said, I don't want to talk to you anymore. 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.120 You talk to me as though I were an ignorant fool. 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:32.240 To which the Christian calmly replied, That's the finest case of self analysis I ever saw. 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:42.240 Now the infidel was angry for a while, but then he came back to see the wearing and the wife or and to open the issue he challenged the truth and historicity of the account of the flood. 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:46.240 He began by saying, Now take that ridiculous story of the ark. 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.079 You certainly can't claim that story is scientifically possible. 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:52.399 Certainly it is, replied the Christian. 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:54.240 What's wrong with it scientifically? 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.399 Just this, the man said. 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:03.040 It was utterly impossible for Noah to get two animals of every kind into an ark the size of the one he built. 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.120 The Christian responded. 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:06.959 Let's examine your argument. 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:10.000 How many different kinds of animals are there? 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:18.000 The infidel looked for several seconds with a blank expression and then said, Well, I don't know how many kinds are there. 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.399 Oh no, no, no, said the Christian. 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:21.839 This is your argument. 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.600 You go ahead and make it. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.240 After some attempt to evade, he said, Well, I don't know how many kinds of animals there are, but I'll soon find out, and he left. 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:34.480 Later in the day he showed up and he said, I know how many kinds of animals there are. 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:36.159 All right, how many kinds are there? 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:39.519 He said, There are one million different kinds. 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.000 Now, of course he was wrong. 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.480 His figures were highly inaccurate. 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:54.720 But since it was his argument and not that of the Christians, he was allowed to make it, so he contented himself, the Christian did, by reply, Well, what's the argument now? 00:08:55.120 --> 00:09:00.879 He answered, It was utterly impossible for Noah to get two million animals into an ark the size of the one he built. 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:05.440 But said the Christian, he didn't have to. 00:09:06.080 --> 00:09:13.519 Out of all the living creatures known to the science of biology, sixty percent of them live in the water. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.159 And the flood wouldn't hurt them. 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.720 Even at that, he answered, forty percent of two million animals is a whale of a lot. 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:22.559 Ah, wait a minute. 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:35.440 You're forgetting, said the Christian, that out of the forty percent that live on the dry land, seventy out of every one hundred are insects, which certainly don't take up much room. 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:42.960 Now, upon this, the infidel got somewhat excited and raised his voice to shout, but you have to admit that two elephants will take up a lot of room. 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:58.320 And the Christian calmly smiled and said, Yes, but think of all the insects the size of fleas, which could be parked on two elephants, all of them counting and yet not dis detracting from the available space. 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:08.879 In exasperation, the infidel then said, Well, no matter how you try to whittle it down, even ten percent of two million animals could not possibly get into an ark the size of the one Noah built. 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:11.519 All right, said the Christian. 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:13.600 How big was the ark? 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:17.440 The infidel began to stammer and to stutter. 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:18.879 What do you mean? 00:10:19.039 --> 00:10:20.559 How how big was it? 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:23.840 The Christian said exactly that, how big was the ark? 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:30.720 And after a considerable embarrassed silence, the unbeliever was forced to admit that he did not know. 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:37.279 He didn't know whether the ark was ten miles long by five miles wide or whether it was ten feet long by twenty feet wide. 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:45.360 The Christian concluded this phase of the discussion by saying, Now, do you see why we talk to you the way you claim we do? 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.000 What an intelligent argument is this. 00:10:48.240 --> 00:11:00.080 Here is a totally unknown number of animals, here is a boat of absolutely unknown size, and yet you claim it is scientifically impossible to get an unknown number of animals into a boat of an unknown size. 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:02.960 That's some science, isn't it? 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.399 By this time the man was furious. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:09.759 He walked out saying, I'll find out how big the ark was. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:15.519 The Christian called out after him, You should have found that out before you rejected the story. 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:19.519 To which we say, Amen and amen. 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:22.399 Well, the next day he showed up again. 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:23.679 Alright. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.919 Now I know how big the ark was. 00:11:26.240 --> 00:11:27.519 Okay, how big was it? 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.519 It was 300 cubits long and 50 cubits wide and thirty cubits high. 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:32.799 Very good. 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.039 Could that hold two of every kind of animal? 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:35.840 said the Christian. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:37.360 No, sir, it could what? 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:39.039 It could not do it. 00:11:40.320 --> 00:11:40.960 Why? 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:42.559 said the Christian. 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:46.080 How long or how much is a cubit? 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:49.679 Again he blew his stack. 00:11:50.320 --> 00:12:02.480 This unbeliever, this know-it-all, this scientist rejecting the Bible on the basis of his scientific knowledge, now had to admit that he didn't know whether the cubit was ten feet or ten yards or ten inches or ten miles long. 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:16.000 The Christian closed the argument by saying with all the kindness he could muster, If a child ten years of age manifested no more logic than you have shown in this argument, you would think he was lacking in intelligence. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.600 You have an arc, the size of which you don't know. 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:31.679 You have a number of animals which number cannot at this time be determined, and yet you maintain that it's scientifically impossible to get two of an unknown number of creatures into a boat of undetermined capacity. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:37.840 That, my friends, is science in these last days. 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:41.919 That, my friend, is the basis on which people reject the Word of God. 00:12:42.639 --> 00:12:44.320 Seems kind of silly, doesn't it? 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:50.639 In fact, it seems more than silly, it seems utterly ridiculous, subject and worthy uh subject to and worthy of ridicule. 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:51.600 Ridiculous. 00:12:53.600 --> 00:13:01.120 Now the argument wouldn't have sounded so silly unless you had some common sense. 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:13.120 But if you've got any intelligence at all and didn't know the background, it'd still be sufficiently clear to your mind to start a train of logical thinking. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:20.480 When you point out to someone the depth of intelligence required to make a man reject the Bible on such flimsy grounds, you wonder. 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.320 You wonder why anybody would follow a scientist instead of a Christian. 00:13:24.720 --> 00:13:36.879 Like most men who start to reason, when this infidel's eyes were open to the silliness of his position, he retracted his former statements upon making a study of the details that are given in the Bible record. 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:43.200 Now many times I've witnessed the attempt of ignorance to assail the Word of God, and it's always easily frustrated. 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:58.320 Now, we want to deal seriously with objections to the story of the Ark, as they have been presented by students and others, and we want to try and clear up several points. 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.960 The first consideration in our study here is the question of the capacity of the ark. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:08.000 The exact size of this famous vessel may never be known. 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:20.000 Scholarship, knowledge, and the science of archaeology have all contributed to their quota of information, but we still don't know very much about the exact capacity of this marvelous craft. 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:30.799 The Bible text simply says, and this is how thou should make it, the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, the height of it thirty cubits. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:39.759 At first sight that seems enough and sufficiently specific, but how do we face the question how long or how much is a cubit? 00:14:40.799 --> 00:14:47.840 Now, up to the present time, this is a question that no scholar has been able to answer conclusively, although there are a number of opinions. 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:52.960 The basis of measurement among the early Hebrews was a simple anatomical system. 00:14:53.360 --> 00:15:08.000 It seemed natural to base earliest measurements upon the parts of the body, and it's generally supposed that the cubit was the length of a man's forearm from the inside of the elbow to the tip of the longest finger. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:14.960 Now the only problem with this is that it would differ, of course, in various individuals, and confusion would result. 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:24.799 This condition forced the adoption of a definite standard by the Jews and neighboring races, and in their later history Israel had a standardized cubit. 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:33.200 Noah's Ark, however, was built many years before the Jewish race began, and the standards of later years do not help us very much here. 00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:36.879 There's also another possibility that we cannot ignore. 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:40.000 The scripture speaks of the cubit of a man. 00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:47.440 Now does Moses mean that the cubit Noah used was the length of a man, or was it the length of a man's forearm? 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:56.480 Or was there a cubit used that was measured perhaps by some other creature rather than man, maybe some beast of burden? 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.039 The standard is variable. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:00.799 It may have been either one. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:08.240 If the length of the ark was three hundred times the length of a man's forearm, we have one problem based on a certain set of factors. 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:18.799 If the cubit that is here intended is the entire height of a man, the cubit of a man, however, we have still another problem with a totally different and varying set of factors. 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:21.919 If it was a man's height, how tall was the man? 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:28.639 Now, it's a dangerous proceeding to make an argument from ignorance. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:39.840 How utterly senseless for the critics to say we do not know and cannot know the exact size of the ark, but we do know that there's no way it could hold two of every kind of animal then living. 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:41.679 How can you say that? 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:46.960 How can you say you know something absolutely on the basis of something you don't know? 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.879 How can you make a definite statement based upon something that is not definite? 00:16:54.080 --> 00:17:03.039 This here again, we're trying to point out to you on these studies the faulty logic and reasoning of those who reject the Bible on the basis of science. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:09.519 A scientist will say, fact number one, we don't know exactly how big the ark was. 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:15.759 Fact number two, we know of a certainty all the animals couldn't have fit on the ark. 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:20.000 You cannot reconcile those two statements. 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:25.119 You cannot side by side state we do not know. 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:31.680 On the basis of not knowing, we can definitely state that's ridiculous. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:37.359 But that's all people need to reject the Bible this day and age. 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:54.240 Any point of refuge in a time of storm, you know, anything to get out from under your obligation to submit yourself to the authority of God's word, but I'm telling you, it doesn't hold up logically in this life, and it certainly won't hold up in God's law court when you stand before him. 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.240 Now the Ark was a ship of gigantic size. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:00.240 There's no question about that. 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:10.400 To be conservative, let's take as a potential cubit the measurement advocated by the famous scientist and archaeologist William Matthew Petrie. 00:18:11.200 --> 00:18:17.920 He, being one of the foremost Egyptologists who ever lived, is entitled to speak with some authority. 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:24.160 He says the oldest standard cubit was twenty-two and one half inches. 00:18:24.880 --> 00:18:27.759 Twenty-two and one half inches. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:32.880 Now, according to this basis, the Ark was a tremendous and commodious boat. 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:43.039 Five hundred and sixty-two feet and six inches long, ninety-three feet and six inches wide, fifty-six feet and three inches high. 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:48.480 Built with a flat bottom, square on both ends, straight up the sides. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.799 There was no waste of space in bow or stern. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:19:00.559 And it had a tremendous carrying capacity of a little over 2,958,000 cubic feet. 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:02.319 Let me say that again. 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:07.599 2,958,000 cubic feet. 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:11.279 This is a tremendous cargo capacity. 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:24.640 To put it in modern terms, it would take a train of almost 1,000 freight cars to carry this enormous load or to provide this amount of cubic space. 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:32.160 That these dimensions and this size are not out of reason, we see from two separate lines of evidence. 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:38.400 First, the ancient legendary stories of the Ark make it much larger than this. 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:46.799 It is inevitable that archaeology should uncover traditional accounts of the deluge and the ark from the monuments and tablets of lost civilizations. 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:50.880 For these ancient civilizations were founded, of course, by descendants of Noah. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:57.279 When people have a common origin, it is always shown in their common traditions. 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:06.880 And as Noah and his sons were the only men saved alive from or through the flood, they must have peopled the entire earth with their progeny. 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.000 Indeed, there could have been no other way. 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:15.359 That these common legends all point to a common origin, none can gainsay. 00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:22.240 Some of them are weird and distorted by tradition, but they all testify to two truths. 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:25.359 First, there was a flood. 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:28.319 Second, there was an ark. 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:33.039 The many Babylonian accounts of the Ark differ in detail. 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:45.440 One account found on ancient clay tablets described the Ark as six stories high, with a mast on top, it had a rudder to steer with, and the whole was crowned by a superstructure or dwelling. 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:50.960 In addition to the presence of the builder and his wife, there was also a pilot who sailed with them. 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:54.720 The structure was perfectly cubical, being one hundred and forty cubits each way. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:58.000 It was constructed in six stories, each having nine compartments. 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:04.720 The clay tablets containing this account of the ark were dug up by George Smith in 1870 and were dated from the year 3,000 BC. 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:06.640 They are undoubtedly genuine. 00:21:07.200 --> 00:21:11.599 The Greek historian, Barosis, also gives an exaggerated account of the Ark. 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.200 He describes it as 3,000 feet long, 12,000 feet wide. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:16.799 Doesn't give the height. 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:41.359 The most fantastic account of the Ark is the description of Origen, the old Bible perverter, corrupter that uh uh dismantled and attacked and uh altered the early manuscripts in the early days of the New Testament Church that made their way down through time and eventually surfaced in the perversions of the New International Version and New American Standard Version. 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:53.119 Origen had an extended controversy with a contemporary, whom he tried to silence by claiming that the ark was twenty-five miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide. 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:59.359 The man probably never even seen a boat in his life to even think something like that could float. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:14.319 He certainly couldn't get those dimensions by looking at the Bible, and why any of you would want to read in a New International Version or a New American Standard Version, knowing that it came from manuscripts doctored by a man with no more sense than that is a mystery to me. 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:21.119 Many other tales and accounts could be introduced if we had unlimited time, but these must suffice. 00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:32.880 We give you a lot of these stories, I mean maybe a dozen of them, in some detail, in our series of tapes tape recordings called the Doomsday Files, and that's listed in our catalog. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:38.400 When you write for the catalog, you'll be able to see it there, and order those tapes if you're interested. 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:46.720 Now, how simple and worthy of credence the language of the Bible seems to the reasoning modern mind. 00:22:47.119 --> 00:23:01.920 As we wade through all this ancient tradition and dealing with the same subjects and facts, how our faith in the Bible grows as we see the difference between an account which is dictated by God and a story that man writes to suit his fancy. 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:23.759 There's no wild fairy tale type embellishments given to the Bible story, just the plain simple facts of how God called a man, why God called that man, what God told the man to do, the specific directions regarding the ark that God told the man to build, and then the way in which the man went about his business and his duty before God. 00:23:24.559 --> 00:23:27.279 My friends, you'll never go wrong. 00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:30.640 You'll never go wrong following the word of God. 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:35.119 It's the safe rule, it's the light to our feet, it's the lamp for our path. 00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:37.039 The word of the Lord is right. 00:23:37.839 --> 00:23:40.880 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:51.680 And you'll be glad, you'll be more than glad, you'll be eternally blessed if you put your faith and trust in the Word of God and not in the mad ravings of science, falsely so-called. 00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:58.000 Thanks for tuning in today. 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:02.640 Join us every weekday for another episode of the Preaching of the Cross Radio Podcast. 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:08.400 For hundreds of hours of in-depth expository Bible teaching, please visit our 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