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1 | when did it rain for the first time? | Genesis | Silver | 73 | ||
Was the rain that started the 40 day flood, the first time it ever rained? | ||||||
2 | when did it rain for the first time? | Genesis | bjanko | 74 | ||
At first, the plants were watered by a mist that used to rise from the surface of the ground. Rain did not begin till after the "floodgates" of the sky were opened. Compare these verses: Gen 2:5 Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. Gen 2:6 But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. AND Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. Gen 7:12 The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. |
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3 | when did it rain for the first time? | Genesis | Brent Douglass | 725 | ||
This is certainly not a doctrine to die for, as there is no direct statement that rain did not start at some time after man and cultivated plants appeared but prior to the flood. However, there are enough descriptions (like this one, as well as the statement that there was water on the earth and water above the earth separated by the air in Genesis 1:6-8, and the drastic drop in lifespan after the flood) that indicate some kind of major increase in aging after the flood that was probably caused by the changes surrounding the event. The theory of a protective thick vapor "firmanent" that was opened and emptied out during the flood is the most logical and conceivable explanation I have heard given the information available from the Scriptures. | ||||||