religion

Belivers take the bible word by word

Reject the evolution theory

World crated in one week = genesis

Noahs Arch

Pilgrim fathers arrive with the mayflower - religious persecution

Constitution = separation of church and state

God created light and separated the light from the darkness, calling light "day" and darkness "night."

God created an expanse to separate the waters and called it "sky."

God created the dry ground and gathered the waters, calling the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters "seas." On day three, God also created vegetation (plants and trees).

• God created the sun, moon, and the stars to give light to the earth and to govern and separate the day and the night. These would also serve as signs to mark seasons, days, and years.

God created every living creature of the seas and every winged bird, blessing them to multiply and fill the waters and the sky with life.

God created the animals to fill the earth. On day six, God also created man and woman (Adam and Eve) in his own image to commune with him. He blessed them and gave them every creature and the whole earth to rule over, care for, and cultivate.

God had finished his work of creation and so he rested on the seventh day, blessing it and making it holy.

• God looked down on the human race and saw wickedness, violence, and evil everywhere (Genesis 6:5)

• He decided to destroy all living things on the earth, except for Noah, who had ‘found grace in the eyes of the LORD’ (Genesis 6:8)

• Instructed Noah to build an Ark

• Instructed Noh to take “two of every sort“ of animal into the ark = so that whilst the other animals would be wiped out, each species would be preserved through these two specimens

• When Noah was 600 years old, God released the rains that lasted for forty days and nights, causing the Flood. Noah and his wife, sons, and their wives, along with the animals he had taken aboard the ark, were spared the Flood and survived.

• But every living thing outside of the ark was destroyed in the waters of the Flood. The ark eventually came to rest on the ‘mountains of Ararat’

• When the waters receded, Noah sent a raven out of the ark to search for dry land, and then a dove. The dove returned, so Noah waited a week and then sent it out again. This happened several times before the dove eventually returned with an olive branch in its mouth: a symbol of peace ever since.

• God showed Noah the rainbow he had set in the clouds, which he told Noah was his covenant with man, that he would never flood the earth again

Goal was to determine if the flood waters had abated enough for Noah and his family to exit the ark

Raven: released and never returned - can eat carrion, would feed off dead animals flesh in the water - first attempt to discover dry land

Dove: woul return to its point of origin if no land was found - week later sent the dove again - retuned with a freshly plucked olive leaf - after another week the dove didn’t return either