Noah’s Fictitious Flood – George Sly, 9/19/1909
Republished from the free-thought publication the Blue Grass Blade
In the Book of Genesis, which was written by Ezra after the return from Babylon, there are two different accounts
of a flood mixed together. One is the Jehovistic account, commencing with verse 5 of chapter 6. Then the Elohistic
account commences with verse 9 and continues to the end of the chapter. Then the Jehovistic account commences
in chapter 7 and goes to verse 7; then the Elohistic to verse 20, chapter 8; then the Jehovistic to the end of the
chapter. The Elohistic commences chapter 9 and goes to verse 18; then the Jehovistic to verse 28; then the
account ends with the Elohistic contained in verses 28 and 29. In the Elohistic account everything is by “twos,”
and in the Jehovistic they are by “sevens.” “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth.”
Then it was God’s fault, not man’s, for it was just as easy to make man always good. “And the Lord said, I will
destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping things,
and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.” — Gen. 6:7 Who is foolish enough to
believe that the Lord did something that He afterwards repented, and that He destroyed the beasts, creeping
things, and fowls because man was wicked? If He did, then it was a very wicked thing for God to do. Then
God commands Noah to make an Ark and put into it “two” of every living thing (Gen. 6:19; 7:9, 15). In the
Jehovistic account it is by sevens (Gen. 7:2). “And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’
wives with him.”— Gen. 7:7 “And they went in again.” — Gen. 7:13 There was only one window (Gen. 6:16),
and they kept that closed (Gen. 8:6). It must have been a very delightful atmosphere to live in for 150 days
(Gen. 7:24; 8:3), or rather 230 days (Gen. 7:12, 24; 8:3, 6), or rather 375 days (Gen. 7:11; 8:13, 14). “And the
Lord smelled a sweet savour.” — Gen. 8:21 It must have been the very sweet atmosphere from the Ark.
After the enormous flood (only 27 feet, 4 inches high—15 cubits; a cubit was 1.82 feet) had subsided, that covered
the mountains (Gen. 7:20), Noah built an altar and sacrificed of the clean beasts and fowls (Gen. 8:20). The Ark
was twice as high as the flood, for the Ark was 30 cubits high and the flood only 15 cubits high. The mountains
must have been anthills. Then God promises not to cut off any more by the waters of a flood (Gen. 9:11) and
made the first rainbow as a token (Gen. 9:13). After that great event, Noah celebrated his miraculous deliverance
by getting beastly drunk and going to sleep naked (Gen. 9:21). When he awoke, he cursed his grandchild Canaan.
For Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, for he was a just man and perfect in his generation, and Noah
walked with God (Gen. 6:8, 9). “And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty-nine years.” — Gen. 9:29
Or “moons”? About 75 years. The Mayas of Yucatan have a history of the sinking of the islands between the
West Indies and Africa, called “Atlantis,” wherein 74,000,000 people were drowned, caused by the shrinking
of the earth’s surface as it cooled. That cataclysm occurred 11,500 years ago. It is evident Ezra did not get his
accounts of the flood from that event. It is rather curious that the Egyptians had no legend of a flood. They
were building the great pyramids at that time, according to Bible chronology and Egyptian history. Ezra could
not have received the accounts from them. Then from where did Ezra get his two accounts of the flood? It
must have been from the astronomers of Chaldea, for when we turn our eyes towards the southern heavens
we can see the constellation “Argo” (the Ark) floating on the Milky Way, with the bright star “Naos” (Noah) on
the forward deck.
And in front of the Ark are the constellations “Canis Major and Minor” (the two dogs), “Leo and Leo Minor” (the
two lions), “Ursa Major and Minor” (the two bears), “Gemini” (the twins), ready to enter the Ark by twos.Also
“Lepus” (the hare), “Monoceros” (the unicorn), “Taurus” (the bull), “Aries” (the ram), “Scorpio” (the scorpion),
“Cancer” (the crab, “creeping things”), “Centaurus,” “Pegasus,” and others, also ready to enter “Argo” (the Ark)
and escape the flood from the great river Eridanus, near which constellation are the constellations of “Cetus”
(the whale) and “Pisces” (the fishes). There is also the constellation “Corvus” (the raven), that did not return
to Noah’s Ark, and the constellation of “Columba” (the dove) flying towards the only window in the “Argo” (the
Ark), represented by four bright stars. Thus we find that the Bible story of the flood is fictitious, and only the
ancient astronomical drama of the heavens brought to earth by Ezra and woven into a nursery tale to excite
the admiration and wonder of little children. In modern times, older people are ignorant and foolish enough
to believe the Bible stories, and think it was the wrath of God that brought the flood, and praise Him for doing
such a wicked act. People who investigate and find out the exact truth about the Bible stories, as I have been
doing for the past 35 years, find that the Bible is not the word of God, but only a collection of novels and
nursery tales written by monks for the purpose of enslaving ignorant people.
