The Flood -- Questions, Lesson 6

What was Noah teaching the people?

Principle: Work (hard work)

Why clean and unclean animals?  Yes, seven of each that would be food and sacrifice, but why were some clean and some unclean?

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Noah's day: Marrying, Giving in Marriage, etc.      Our Day: Marrying, Giving in Marriage, etc.
Noah's day:  The Gospel is taught                         Our Day: The Gospel is taught
Warnings are given.
Some heed the warnings though they are called foolish.
Others do not.
Many perish in a flood (of water)  (of filth)
Family comes through.

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What was the world like at the time of Noah?
(Enoch's City translated not so long before.) 2900 B.C. ?
Flood 2500 B.C.?
What was being taught?

From Wayne 2007 - 

The Jaredite Barges

"An important clue is the statement in Ether 6:7 that Jared's boats were built on the same pattern as Noah's ark. . . . [But] the Bible is not the only ancient record that tells about the ark. . . . There are various versions of the Flood story floating about, all of which tell some of the story."³³
"The oldest accounts of the ark of Noah, the Sumerian ones, describe it as a 'magur boat,' peaked at the ends, completely covered but for a door, without sails, and completely covered by the waters from time to time, as men and animals rode safe within."³⁴
"The remarkable thing about Jared's boats was their illumination. . . . The Rabbis tell of a mysterious Zohar that illuminated the ark, but for further instruction we must go to much older sources: the Pyrophilus is traced back to the Jalakanta stone of India, which shines in the dark and enables its owner to pass unharmed beneath the waters; this in turn has been traced back through classical and Oriental sources to the Gilgamesh Epic, where Alexander's wonderful Pyrophilus stone turns up as the Plant of Life in the possession of the Babylonian Noah."³⁵