(1) Constructed by Noah.

When God told Noah of His intention to destroy His creation with a flood, Noah was instructed to build an 'ark', a large wooden boat in which his family and specimens of all God's animal creation could be shut up and saved from the flood. A brief description of the construction of the ark is given in Genesis 6:14-16.

Sceptics have doubted that the ark, even though it was the size of a modern ocean liner, could have contained Noah, his family, all the animal creation and provisions for their stay in the ark, but if numbers were limited to a pair of each 'kind', or species, and seven pairs of clean animals, then there should have been sufficient space. It is also possible that God arranged for some kind of hibernation to reduce problems with aggressive animals and the need to store and carry large quantities of food. It is also suggested that the flood covered only that part of the earth inhabited by humans, which means, if that was so, that the majority of animals would have survived elsewhere. The construction of the ark would have been beyond the ability of Noah and his family without divine instruction, and possibly, assistance.

The apostle Peter compares Noah's deliverance from the flood in the ark to our salvation by baptism into Christ: "…God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water. And this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also-not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 3:20-21).

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