Contradictions and Paradoxes in Genesis 8:4

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Genesis 8:4 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Genesis 8:4. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Moses, the person who wrote this part of the Bible, this verse tells us that Noah's big boat, called the ark, finally stopped moving after the big flood and landed on a mountain called Ararat. It's like saying the journey on the water was over, and they found a safe place.

Genesis 8:4: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Contradiction with Genesis 7:19-20

Explains a flood so vast that all the high hills under the whole heaven were covered, suggesting waters didn't recede quickly, contradicting the notion of the Ark resting on mountains so soon.

Genesis 7:19-20: And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that [were] under the whole heaven, were covered.

Contradiction with Psalm 104:6-9

Describes waters standing above mountains and then retreating at God's rebuke, implying a natural containment of waters rather than an ark resting on mountains early on.

Psalm 104:6-9: Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

Contradiction with Isaiah 54:9

References the flood as an event of God's anger, contrasting with the peaceful resting of the Ark on the mountains, without indication of God's wrath in Genesis 8:4.

Isaiah 54:9: For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me: for [as] I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Contradiction with 2 Peter 3:6-7

Indicates a global cataclysm and a future destruction by fire, which contrasts with the resting and respite suggested in Genesis 8:4.

2 Peter 3:6-7: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
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