Were all the animals Noah took on his ark, also the only good animals left in the world?

Question

All the other animals except for the ones he took were evil and sinful and wicked, right? Just like all the evil and sinful and wicked humans, the evil and sinful and wicked kittens had to be drowned too. Or am I missing something?

Answer 1

The story of Noah's Ark is a metaphor.According the the Gnostic's(Kabbalah) Noah means "seed".It is about human creation and transformation,over and over-evolution.We are regenerating every moment,second,day.It is the Kundalini experience of connecting the lower animal with the higher divine within us.All the animals represent our many varied instincts.the Ark is our body the water is our life's energy.The mountain top is the point of connection with the divine.Same with the 10commandments.Up the mountain for higher inspiration and bring it into physical manifestation through the physical body.

Answer 2

The reason that YHWH destroyed the world with a flood was because He "saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5[–8] ESV).



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Concerning the creatures that were to be brought into the ark, YHWH instructed Noah to bring creatures that were CLEAN and NOT CLEAN. They included



1) 7 pairs (male + female mate) of each "kind" of CLEAN

a) beast animal (i.e. a lower animal as distinguished from human beings)

b) winged flying creature



… and



2) 1 pair (male + female mate) of each "kind" of NOT CLEAN

a) beast animal

b) winged flying creature

c) creeping creature



… so that they may live and keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth (Genesis 6:19–20; 7:2–3). They went on board the ark two pairs ("two and two") at a time along with Noah, his wife, their three sons, and each their own wife (Genesis 7:7–9, 12–16).



After the flood had ended and everyone departed from the ark, Noah built an altar to YHWH. Noah then took from every clean beast animal and from every clean flying winged creature (remember, 7 pairs of each kind were brought on board the ark), and he offered them as burnt offerings on the altar (Genesis 8:20).



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So, with regards to "clean" creatures, how does YHWH define "clean"? According to James Swanson's Dictionary of Biblical Languages With Semantic Domains : Hebrew (Old Testament), the Hebrew word in question can refer to being

1) "ceremonially or ritually clean (Leviticus 11:36; 1 Samuel 20:26)";

2) "pure, i.e., pertaining to the feature of an object virtually not having foreign particles or impurities (Exodus 25:11), note: it is not clear if this metal is alloyed or not, though it clearly is free from all impurities";

3) "flawless, perfect, i.e., without defect of any kind and so free from moral impurity (Psalm 12:7; Habakkuk 1:13)"; or

4) "clean, i.e., pertaining to not having dirt on an object (Zechariah 3:5)."



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Does that adequately answer your questions?

Answer 3

No, they were not good ones.

You are missing the whole point, and that point is the Basis for what St Paul says :



9 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[h] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.



22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? 25 But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.