Shame on this author! I was SHOCKED to know that the passage below is PLAGIARIZED in this book by an author purporting to have a doctorate degree:
"I have always thought that Noah was safe inside the Ark because he built it according to God's specifications. I thought that perhaps it was the strength of the gopher wood and the soundness of the architecture that ensured that the waters of the flood would not come into the Ark.
"But today I encountered a verse that shifted this whole paradigm.
Let's read what Gen 7:16 says .." The animals going in were male and female of every living thing as God had commanded Noah..THEN GOD SHUT HIM IN...."
Though there is no page number in the Google books, the PLAGIARIZED passage is in Chapter 7: New Creation Realities. I also took a screenshot as proof.
If you Google this passage, many other sources appear in much earlier posts (e.g. facebook), some as early as 2016.