Size of Noah's Ark

Read Genesis 6:15

"The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits."

Length:            300 cubits
Width:              50 cubits
Height:             30 cubits

How long is a cubit? The majority of bibles usually have a footnote that states something like: "a cubit is the length of a man's forearm measuring from a man's elbow to the tip of his fingers, or approximately 18 inches". 18 inches is of course 1.5 feet which is an easy number to calculate in a person's head. Obviously different men have different lengths of their forearm. So the length of a cubit was slightly different where ever you go. You can find it called a cubit, standard cubit, royal cubit, etc. The actual length varies several inches. James Strong, the author of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, actually traveled to the Bible lands and measured numerous buildings and sites that had ancient archeological records of their size recorded in cubits. James Strong calculated the average cubit to be 21.75 inches long. James Strong states there is some variance in the actual examples, but when you average them out, the average length of a cubit is 21.75 inches.

For those believers not familiar with the works of James Strong, they should consider getting one of his Exhaustive Concordances. It lists every word in the Bible and everywhere it is used. In addition it has Hebrew / English and Greek / English dictionaries in the back. His works are considered clean by almost all respected Bible scholars and we agree 100%. His work is a trusted treasure for anyone studying the Bible.

So the actual measurements of the ark are not exactly known in feet. Several Christian organizations have adopted a range of 510 to 520 feet but reasonable calculations place it at a minimum of 450 feet and maximum of 544 feet. That is a big ship either way. We have included the two extremes of the possible cubit lengths to illustrate how large the ark could have been:

	Cubits	Assumed Length	Strong’s Length
Length:	300 cubits	450 feet	544 feet
Width:	50 cubits	75 feet	90 feet
Height:	30 cubits	45 feet	54 feet

Size Comparison (to scale)

 At church we took the youth out to the parking lot and had them make two rectangles of the sizes listed above. It was a wonderful mental image for them to see in real life how big Noah's Ark actually was. None of them before had considered the ark as being anything close to that huge. We were lucky to have a parking lot big enough.
 

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Has the Real Noah's Ark been Found?

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Playing Games with God?

People rarely admit that they have been subconsciously playing games with God.

Are you and I playing games with God to keep our lives under our own control? Since part of who God is, is perfect truth, perfect love, and perfect righteousness, would it be wise for us to put Him in His rightful place truly as God in our lives?

Even when you talk to people on a personal level they are so often not aware of their playing games with God. Instead they will usually say one of three different views.

1.) that they don't understand God, or

2.) they wish God would make things plainly visible to them, or

3.) they already have God.

Yet almost everyone ou us plays a hidden subconscious game with God for who is in contron. God's plan works perfectly and He does not change. God will not corrupt His perfection to get things to line up with our normal. Our normal is a twisted version of reality. When we start to line up our understanding with God's reality, we start to begin to realize just how true the Word of God actually is.

What is quite interesting is, when a person is in a man made religion, they still are playing this same subconscious game with God. Most man made religions initially look like they have the truth. This is also true for Christians. The only way to know if our religion is real, is to carefully study the scriptures and prove all things.

When they crucified Jesus Christ, they were playing religious games with God. They thought they won, but in reality, they lost. These were the brightest, most educated people of the day. Today is no different. Even educated and highly educated religious people often are unaware that they are playing games with God. God knows all about it.

So how do we get out of this deception? As we get older, we realize that when we play games with God we cannot win. God always wins in the end. We would be wise to learn how God made things work and then bring our lives in line with that reality. There is only one source and that is the scriptures that our Bibles are translated from. They have proven trustworthy and we should choose to believe what they say.

That would mean we should learn how God says we are made and how we should interact with Him. Each part of us that God has made, God has a plan and a purpose on how it is to be used. Yes we have to do the work necessary to learn this in order to be an overcoming child of God. Works are not a requirement of salvation, but they do show our belief in the God of salvation.

This means we should learn the difference between thinking, believing, and knowing from God's perspective. Even educated people often get these mixed up. God has specific meanings for each of them. Also God has specific functions for the six parts of a person that are listed in the scriptures. God put that information in the Bible for us to search out and understand and make our daily decisions by faith accordingly.

Size of Noah's Ark

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