@*lady*godiva* wrote:
@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:
*lady*godiva wrote: "Infact, was the food really clean? There were only two of each animal loaded onto the Ark, and we now know that when close relatives mate that genetic abnormalities are possible. So if a pair of elephants had 2 children, eventually, in order to increase the population to the numbers of today, there had to be some pretty close personal encounters amongst famiy members. God was the original scientist. He knows everything. He designed it. How could he not have known this? Why did he not know this when only commissioning one Ark. Why didn't he commission 3 or 4 Arks so he could load 6 or 8 of each kind and water down the gene pool a bit?"
2 of each animal?
The way I read it : a pair of each unclean animals; and 7 pairs of each clean animal.
fair enough, but then how many of the clean animals were sacrificed in Genesis 20 and beyond?
And according to that, then God did make unclean animals
I call shenanigans.
Why the need for clean and unclean animals? Why the distinction when the majic trilogy of the Jews, Christians and isrealites.hadn't surfaced then?
Why produce clean animals for sacrifice and leave unclean animals to eat and repopulate the earth?
Plus, doesn't the bible only talk of sacrificing lambs?
how many animals were sacrificed - some were when Noah got out of the ark - but since they were in the ark for over a year, one might assume that more were born during that year?
at that stage God decided what was clean or unclean as far as sacrificial offerings. As you rightly say, the laws defining clean / unclean were not passed to man as law until much later.
The Bible doesn't talk JUST of sacrificial lambs? The Israelites used to sacrifice all sorts of things - doves, calves, lambs etc - but never any of the unclean animals - pigs, camels etc. Earlier in the piece (see Cain / Abel) Cain offered fruit and vegetables so the offerings must have been from whatever each man / family produced.
The ultimate sacrificial lamb was of course Jesus.
