Confusing sentence
I always thought Noah’s Flood was a negative thing, but I find that I was wrong, and that God was in reality, “killing with kindness”. I discovered this truth when I happened upon 1 Peter 3:20, where the Bible makes a very confusing statement, “God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
Did you get that last bit in the verse? The bit where it says, “eight souls were saved by water.” Because it is speaking about Noah of the Old Testament, the eight souls are referring to Noah, his wife, three sons, and three daughters-in-law.
Many are familiar with the biblical account of Noah, his ark, and the great flood. And that is what makes Peter’s statement so confusing. It says that Noah and his family “were saved by water”. Shouldn’t that have read, “saved by the ark?” Wasn’t it the water that threatened them and the wooden ark the device of their salvation?
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