THE 2014 NOAH MOVIE

The 2014 Noah movie is full of controversy. I wanted to write about it but I found an article that did a detailed review of the movie. Here is an excerpt from the article and a link to it so you can read it too. Be Blessed always… ~SM

“Is the Film Biblically Accurate?

One of the things we have heard from various Christian leaders is that the film was rather faithful to the biblical text. In fact, a seven-minute video was produced by a believer who works in Hollywood that displayed various endorsements of the film. In it, Ari Handel, the co-screenwriter of Noah stated, “It was very important to us to do two things at the same time. One was to not to do anything which contradicted the letter of the text. And the second was, wherever we could, without contradicting Genesis, we wanted to break expectations.”

So in the words of the film’s cowriter, it was supposedly very important for them not to contradict the letter of the text. Let’s see how well they achieved this goal.

The Film Shows	The Bible States
“In the beginning, there was nothing.”	“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)
Adam and Eve had three sons.	Adam and Eve had Cain, Abel, Seth, and other sons and daughters. (Genesis 5:4)
Noah’s father Lamech died when Noah was a young boy.	Lamech lives until Noah is about 595 years old, dying approximately five years before the Flood.
Japheth is Noah’s youngest son.	Ham is Noah’s youngest son (Genesis 9:24 ).
Japheth releases the raven from the ark.	Noah releases the raven (Genesis 9:7).
God used the big bang and evolution (see below for more details).	God created everything in six days (Genesis 1).
Man is to be judged because of what humans have done to the earth.	Man is to be judged for sinning against the holy and righteous God.
Noah builds the ark solely to save “the innocents” (meaning the animals), and after it serves its purpose, man is to die off.	Noah built the Ark for the saving of his household (Hebrews 11:7) and the animals (Genesis 6:19–20).

Either Ari Handel has very little knowledge of the text or he deliberately lied about his point to promote the movie. Both options should be enough to make one question the integrity of the film’s writing.

One might argue that many of these issues are rather minor points in the grand scheme of the biblical narrative. But it reveals a cavalier attitude towards the Bible. If they can’t bother to get the smaller points right, then how can we trust them to accurately handle the larger issues (and they don’t—see below)?

Think about it. They could have made Ham the youngest of the boys or had Noah release the raven without changing their overall story. They could have had Lamech die at the proper time and still open the movie with the setup to the latter confrontation with Tubal-Cain by giving Noah a beloved uncle or older brother who gets killed.

But they didn’t. Instead, the filmmakers directly went against the Word of God on issues that wouldn’t have changed their story, which demonstrates that they absolutely did not respect God’s Word. They did not try hard to avoid doing “anything which contradicted the letter of the text.””

Please enjoy the article about the 2014 Noah movie. Here’s the LINK.

CHAPTER 3 – Life and Death

During life and death God is unconditional Love even though He executes unimpeachable justice. He really doesn’t want any of us to die and gives us chance after chance after chance to change.

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9)

Some people find it sooo hard to receive love and they reject chances to change. God allows Satan to bring chaos to them, to bring them to Him. God gives us so many opportunities to refuse to practice unrighteousness yet we revel in it. Why do people love carnal pleasures more than the righteousness of God? Maybe because carnality FEELS good!

When will mankind recognise that as unrighteousness increases life decreases? The reality is that man’s lifespan has diminished drastically since the Garden of Eden. This dwindling of man’s lifespan speaks loudly to the decline of everything that is good, pure, and true. It will continue to deteriorate as it has for thousands of years and people will continue to die, even at a much younger age.

The Holy Bible says that after Adam became separated from God and was told to leave Eden (Genesis 3:23) he had a son when he was 130 years old (Genesis 5:3). Adam lived to be 930 years old and had other sons and daughters (Genesis 5:4). There was also Methuselah who had a son when he was 187 years old (Genesis 5:25). Methuselah lived to be 969 years old and had other sons and daughters as well (Genesis 5:27).

Methuselah’s father Enoch was only 65 years old when he had Methuselah (Genesis 5:21). He had him while he was very young according to the standard in those days. Enoch was on earth for another 300 years had other children and then God literally took him to Heaven (Genesis 5:23-24 & Hebrews 11:5). Enoch never died and has been in Heaven now for more than 5,300 years.

Noah lived to be 950 years old (Genesis 9:29). Immediately after Noah’s flood, man’s life-span was between 500 and 600 years (Genesis 11:10-17). It then decreased to between 200 and 230 years (Genesis 11:18-23). After that it declined even further to between 140 and 205 years (Genesis 11:24-32). It then diminished to between 110 and 120 years (Genesis 50:26) and eventually went down to between 80 and 100 years (1 Samuel 4:15). God said the average life is now 70 years old but that it may extend to 80 years.

“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” (Psalm 90:10)

A score is 20 so threescore is 60. Threescore and ten is 70. The scripture is saying that each of us is blessed with 70 years but if we are strong because of physical discipline then it may extend to fourscore, or 80 years. We have plenty of evidence around us today that some people live to be 100 years old or more. This I believe is only by the grace of God.

Adam, Methuselah and Noah are only three examples of people in the Holy Bible who have lived over 500 years. It is no secret then that as evil and wickedness increase in the people of the earth their life-span diminishes.

This thought alone should motivate us to seek out righteousness and life, and to seek to be re-connected to God before physical death comes.