Interesting Comments on Noah

One person’s intellectual point of view.  I will let it stand on its own merit!  I will only include portions of the Genesis account of Noah’s story.  You can find  entire quotes it in Chapters 6-10. 

To answer your question about So he called Noah!   Who we are also told “walked with God.”  I should not have put quotes around the phrase walked with God.  That was meant to be an analogy of what God must have seen in Noah.

8 But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.(Gen. 6)

To your question:  Has anyone EVER brought this up that you’ve needed to answer (or heard someone else explain)?   NO, I can honestly say I have never heard the interesting information you have offered here.  

All beside the point of course.   I can’t believe in such a humanly created mythical creature (angry creator causes floods and blows away his creation) and put it with the beauty and wonder of the universe and the notion of living with an interconnected mesh of life created and held together in love.   Sorry.  Christianity needs to find a new way and leave the old myths and legends to the past.  Christianity as Jesus would have explained it - but his followers were not yet ready to hear it.  Get Jesus right and the world will be right.  Does ANYONE think this way?  Am I the only one who just can’t do it the traditional way?

So he called Noah!   Who we are also told “walked with God.”  

Told by whom???  The rest of the Noah story told in the Old Testament Bible (Jewish) doesn’t fit with that statement.  I felt truly lied to by this simplified truncated telling when I finally read the rest of it.  Noah was a drunk.  Noah did not treat his son with love. Noah was a total jerk.  If he still ‘walked with God’ then I have a real problem with the whole notion.  Is this a Christian notion imposed on the Jewish story?  Or did the Jewish tradition still maintain Noah walked with God?

Why do this?  

I know the whole story is to be taken as a ‘lesson’ - not literally.  But the reality of all that was known then about Noah, but the Christian telling (at least) seems to emphasize what is convenient.  It makes me shudder, suspect ‘lessons’ in general.   

Has anyone EVER brought this up that you’ve needed to answer (or heard someone else explain)?

Genesis 6: 1-8 1 When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 

2 the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. 

3 Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years." 

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the heroes that were of old, warriors of renown. 

5 The Lord saw that the wickedness of humankind was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually. 

6 And the Lord was sorry that he had made humankind on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. 

7 So the Lord said, "I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them." 

8 But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.

Genesis 7: 1 Then the Lord said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

Genesis 9: 1 and 8-17 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 

2 The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered. 

3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. 

4 Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 

5 For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life. 

6 Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; for in his own image God made humankind. 

7And you, be fruitful and multiply, abound on the earth and multiply in it." 

8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, 

9 "As for me, I am establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you,

10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and every animal of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. 

11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." 

12God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: 

13 I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. 

14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, 

15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

17 God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth."