It will be "As in the Days of Noah" when Jesus comes back.

Genesis 6: The Days of Noah.
[b][big]The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.[/big][/b]

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LeopoldBloom · M

How did plants and trees survive? Noah didn’t take them onto the ark and the Bible says everything not on the ark died. Did the author just forget to mention them?

Carazaa · F

@LeopoldBloom Seeds can make new plants.

REMsleep · 41-45, F

@LeopoldBloom
"Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died."

This implies dry land animals only I would think.
Thats verse 22 chp 7

LordShadowfire · M

@Carazaa Okay, so the entire world was literally devoid of all vegetation after a year of being underwater and it all dying and rotting, and your answer to the fact that there would be no ecosystems capable of supporting life for 40 years or more is "Seeds can make new plants."

I think it's quite clear there's not going to be a productive conversation here.

Carazaa · F

@REMsleep Maybe you are right! 🙂

Carazaa · F

@LordShadowfire

40 years? Noah was in the ark about a year. And if God made all vegetation in one day he could make it revive after a few months, right?

LeopoldBloom · M

@Carazaa Most seeds cannot survive underwater. Also, not every plant reproduces through seeds.

If God revived the plants, why isn't that mentioned? You're just assuming something with no textual support. It's more likely that whoever wrote the story simply forgot to mention plants.

LordShadowfire · M

@Carazaa At this stage in the discussion, it's just miracle after miracle after miracle to force it to work, until the story of the flood becomes the dumbest thing in the entire Bible to believe literally. It would have been so much easier for God to just snap his fingers and give everybody a heart attack. Why would he do something that breaks that many laws of nature?

Carazaa · F

@LordShadowfire You'll have to ask him that one day. But I guess he is testing who trusts in him and what we do with our lives.

Carazaa · F

@LeopoldBloom Not sure about that!

LeopoldBloom · M

@Carazaa I am. The lack of detail about what happened to plants is a dead giveaway.

Carazaa · F

@LeopoldBloom God raised Lazarus after rotting, so he can save seeds too!

LordShadowfire · M

@Carazaa Okay, but why? Why would he do it the hard way, in a way that requires miracle after miracle after miracle? Are you suggesting that God is stupid?

Carazaa · F

@LordShadowfire Is God stupid? He created this world, are you?

LordShadowfire · M

@Carazaa So, just to be clear, you're not saying God is stupid. Because doing something in the hardest way possible, just to do it, strikes me as pretty stupid.

LeopoldBloom · M

@Carazaa But that's not in the text, so you're just making an assumption. It's one thing to take the Bible literally; it's another to make stuff up that isn't in the Bible at all and claim that it must have happened.