I heard that the producers of the movie “Noah” said it was not totally based on the Biblical account…..WOW…..I am glad they said that and wish they had called the movie, “The Great Flood” or “Giant Rock Monsters and Wet Rescue” or something other than Noah.
I go to ‘Christian’ movies to see what the world is seeing…..enjoyment hoped for! The movie not only disappointed me but made me angry as there was so much judgment and legalism in the movie made man called Noah. I found it very sad and grieved me greatly.
Hebrews 11:7 says “God warned Noah and he built the ark out of fear, (and respect) and was declared righteous by faith. 2 Peter 2:5 tells us Noah was a preacher of righteousness…..sounds more like the people ignored Noah rather than fighting to take the ark, as they did in the movie.
In the movie one son, Ham, goes into the world to find a wife before the ark left–finds a girl, helps her escape from captors. As they are running to the ark the girl steps into and is caught in an animal trap. Noah looking for Ham finds them, pulls Ham away leaving the girl to die. Now, that sure looks like a ‘preacher of righteousness’ doesn’t it ? Well, that did not happen in the Bible so it doesn’t matter, just part of a truly fictitious story.
The rock giants looked like monsters out a science fiction movie and the whole world looked ugly and dark most of the time. In the Bible Noah takes his wife, three sons and their wives into the ark. In the movie only one son with one wife, who gave birth to twins born, while on the ark…..Noah declares he will kill the babies if they are girls so they cannot bring more ‘evil people’ into the world. Ugh! What a nail in the coffin of female bigotry.
In the movie Noah does not kill the baby girls but sees (finally) the love of God in them and feels so guilty he goes off by himself and gets drunk. They don’t spend any time (good thing, the movie was long enough) on the facts that they had planted grapes and made wine after the flood was over.
There are some awesome points in the Biblical account of Noah….I hope everyone will read the Bible looking for the goodness of God and the mistakes men made…..so that we might not repeat their pattern. Hosea 4:6–we perish for lack of knowledge of God’s ways.
Pressing in and pressing on….