days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing wherein few, that is, eight souls were
saved by water."
I Peter 3:20
"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell... And spared
not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth, a preacher of righteousness, bringing the
flood upon the world of the ungodly..."
II Peter 2:4-5
At least two separate verse of the Bible seem to clearly state there were only eight who were saved from Noah's flood (one verse, as we see, also mentions the "angels that sinned": further proof of these "giants" of scripture). Most people, I'm sure, have been taught the Bible states
"This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him."
Genesis 5:1
The Bible is clearly saying it is a book which concerns the man, Adam, and his future generations. It is not saying that those who were born of other groups were not important, or do not matter. It simply means the Bible is an account from the first Adam, the one in Genesis, to the "last Adam," who would be Jesus (I Corinthians 15:45), and the trials and tribulations associated with those who carried on this seed (the Israeli people) all the way to the end of all days. Since we know the Bible is the story of the people who began at Adam, and passed down through Noah, Abraham, and eventually Jesus, it is quite possible that these two verses indeed are telling the truth, and referring to only eight souls: Adamic souls. In other words, eight people were saved who came from the seed of Adam. Noah, as the Bible states, was "perfect" in his generations (Genesis 6:9), which could clearly mean he was from the seed of Adam, and thats all. Noah was from the bloodline which had no genes of Cain, the Nephilim, the Chay of the Field or any other group of the day (see birds and beasts).
After the flood, ancient sources state, Noah built a city. The name of the city was Themanon: the "City of the Eight." Interestingly enough, the ancient Arabs also referred to this same word as, "City of the Eighty." Could there have been more survivors to the flood, perhaps up to eighty? If eight souls of Adam, and eighty people total, did go aboard the ark that day, it does seem to explain a lot of unanswered questions. We recall from the birds and beasts, there were, possibly, four groups of people on the earth at the time; not just the children of Adam (or Adamites). There were groups of the Beasts (Chay) of the Field, the Fowl (Owph) of the Air and The Creeping Thing (Remes) that Creepeth, also, probably, on the earth. We recall, there were also the cross-bred descendents of people and angels, often known as the Bahemah, on the earth. Could the members (or souls) of these groups have been allowed to board the ark, as well?
Genesis 7:13 "In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives
of his sons with them, into the ark;
7:14 They, and every Beast (Chay) of the Field after his kind, and all the cattle (bahemah) after their kind, and every Creeping Thing
(the Remes) that Creepeth on the earth after his kind, and every Fowl (Owph) of the Air after his kind, every bird of every sort.
7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark... wherein is the breath of life."
These could be references to Noah and the animals being led into the ark. But, as you further look into how the Bible lists things, it often "lumps" similar aspects together. In this case, the Bible could have lumped these specific groups of living beings brought aboard the ark, and separated others. You'll notice, these verses mention the Fowl (Owph) of the Air and birds separately. If they both meant birds, why separate the two? You'll see, these same groups seem to come out, again and again, in the Bible:
Genesis 7:22 "All in whose nostrils was the breath of life (another translation of the Hebrew word Chay), of all that was in the dry land, died.
7:23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both Man (sons of Adam), and Cattle
(bahemah), and the Creeping Things (Remes), and the Fowl (Owph) of the Heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth:
and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark."
Why does the Bible continually group these in this same way, as a "proper" name, rather than just say "all humans and animals died"? Another thing that amazes the average reader of the Bible is this: if the flood destroyed all the fallen angels of the flood, and their offspring, why do we still have mention the same groups of people after the flood?
"And there we saw the giants (the Nephilim), the sons of Anak (the Anakim), which come of the giants (the Nephilim): and we were in
their sight as grasshoppers..."
Numbers 13:33
"... So the Kenites (sons of Cain) departed from among the Amalekites."
I Samuel 15:6
How come the descendents of the Nephilim were around after the flood? How could have the descendents of Cain survived, along with other groups
