A new life and a new world

After visiting the Ark Encounter in Kentucky with some youth from Sandy Bay First Nation, I was mesmerized with thoughts concerning Noah and his family. What must it have been like to listen to the rain come down upon them for forty days and forty nights? They were safe in the Ark, but friends and distant relatives all would have perished as the raging waters covered everything on Planet Earth as they knew it.

The Bible, God’s Word, says that every living creature died. Every human that chose not to believe God and as a result, chose not to enter the door also perished (Genesis 6:17). What mus...