By Rod Benson
Chances are you’ve heard of Noah’s Ark, the large boat built to rescue the world’s animals from a catastrophic flood several thousand years ago. You can read about it in the early chapters of Genesis, in the Bible.
Well, now a team of evangelical explorers claim to have recovered wood specimens from a structure high on Mt Ararat in eastern Turkey, which appear to be 4,800 years old.
I hope they are right, and I hope this is evidence of the Ark which bore Noah and his family, and the selected fauna, to safety in the great flood. But it’s not the first time well-meaning believers have claimed to have found Noah’s Ark.
My faith in God, and in God’s word, does not depend on whether bits of a boat have survived intact in Turkey. My faith depends on God’s active presence in my life, his trustworthiness, his grace. Is that what your faith rests on?
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, Sunday 2 May 2010.
