"...and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
                                          Genesis 7:23
Noah's Flood: Other
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                   Only Eight Survivors of Noah's Flood?


"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God
waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing wherein few,
that is, eight souls were saved by water."

                      I Peter 3:20 KJV


"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to
hell... And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth, a
preacher of righteousness, bringing the flood upon the world of the
ungodly..."

                      II Peter 2:4-5 KJV


At least two different verses of the Bible clearly state there were eight, and
only eight, survivors of Noah's flood. Most people, I'm sure, have been
taught the eight people who survived the flood were Noah, his wife, his
three sons and their wives. If we look at all of this in more detail, another
possibility might come to the surface.

First, if we notice, I Peter 3:20 mentions these "eight" in the terms of souls.
The other verse mentions "Noah the eighth." The eighth what? What is
going on here? Could these "eight" refer to something specific - a certain
type of soul or person, perhaps?

The Bible, truly, is a book about a specific generation of people:


"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God
created man, in the likeness of God made he him."

        Genesis 5:1 KJV


The Bible clearly is a book about the man, Adam, and his future
generations. It does not say that those from other groups of people weren't
significant, or don't matter. Simply, the Bible represents an account of this
man and his generations - the first Adam down to who would be the "last
Adam."

The last "Adam" (of the prophecy of Genesis 3:15) was Jesus (I
Corinthians 15:45). The Bible is a book about the trials and tribulations
associated with the people appointed to carry on this particular seed of
Adam (the Israeli people), all the way to Christ's birth.

Since we know the Bible is the story of the descendants of Adam, it is
quite possible the above two verses indeed are telling us the truth, and refer
to only eight souls - but Adamic souls. In other words, only eight people
were saved from this flood who came from the chosen seed of Adam, only
eight. Noah, as the Bible states, was "perfect" in his generations (Genesis
6:9), which probably meant he was from this seed of Adam, and thats all.
Noah had a bloodline which was not compromised by the genes of Cain,
the Nephilim, the Watchers, or any other human group of human being
(see Birds and Beasts).

After the flood, ancient sources state, Noah built a city. The name of this
city was Themanon: City of the Eight. Interestingly enough, the ancient
Arabs also thought of this same city as City of the Eighty. Could there
have been more survivors to the flood - perhaps up to eighty? If eight souls
of the descendants of Adam went aboard, along with other people, this
could make light of a lot of unanswered questions.

We recall from Birds and Beasts, there could be four or five groups of
people on the earth at the time, beyond these children of Adam. There
could have been the Chay (Beasts) of the Field, the Owph (Fowl) of the
Air, the Bahemah, the Remes (Creeping Thing) that Creepeth, as well as
more Adamites on the earth. Were people of these groups allowed to board
the ark, as well? Maybe these weren't animals:


Genesis (KJV)
7:13  "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives
of his sons with them, into the ark;            
7:14  They, and every Beast (Chay) of the Field after his kind, and all
the cattle (Bahemah) after their kind, and every Creeping Thing
(the Remes) that Creepeth on the earth after his kind, and every
Fowl (Owph) of the Air after his kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15  And they went in unto Noah into the ark... wherein is the breath
of life."


Traditionally, people thought this referred to Noah and the animals being
loaded into the ark. As we further look into how the Bible lists these
groups, we notice the verses mention Fowl (Owph) of the Air and birds
separately. If the two both stood for birds, why separate the two? Why -  
unless the Fowl of the Air was a specific name of a group of individuals?
We'll see these same four groups, again and again:


Genesis (KJV)
7:22  "All in whose nostrils was the breath of life (another translation of
the Hebrew word Chay), of all that was in the dry land, died.
7:23  And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face
of the ground, both Man (sons of Adam), and Cattle (Bahemah),
and the Creeping Things (Remes), and the Fowl (Owph) of the
Heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only
remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."











Why do these verses seem so complex? Isn't it much simpler for the Bible
to state, "all the humans and animals died"? Why does the Bible continually
mention these groups in this way, as more of a "proper" name? Another
thing that may perplex the reader: if the flood destroyed all the Cainites,
fallen angels, and any of their mixed offspring, why do we have mention of
these same groups after?


"And there we saw the giants (the Nephilim), the sons of Anak (the
Anakim), which come of the giants (the Nephilim): and we were in their
sight as grasshoppers..."

       Numbers 13:33 KJV


"... So the Kenites (sons of Cain) departed from among the Amalekites."

         I Samuel 15:6 KJV


How come the descendants of the Nephilim (the Anakim) lived after the
flood? How could the descendants of Cain survive, along with other groups
of antediluvian people known as the Amalekites? There are even giants
mentioned by name, said to be the last of the Watcher's offspring (Og and
Sihon, in Deuteronomy 3:11, Joshua 13:12, and Numbers 32:33). Many of
us know giants in the post-flood land, such as Goliath, who continued to
further plague the children of Israel. How could this happen, if they were
all destroyed? The Bible states that all living souls died who were not
aboard Noah's ark. Could more souls of this antediluvian era have been
allowed on board, to repopulate the world? Could many of these people
have gone astray, and continued to make their marks upon the world,
continued with the knowledge and influences of their antediluvian ways of
life? Legacy of Nimrod could tell us more.


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