Sometimes it Takes a Flood

I saw Noah, the movie, last night.

Interesting.

Definitely a whole lot of “blank filling” going on there.

For instance, I’ve never read, in any translation, that Tubal-Cain ended up on the ark as a stow-away.

I also question the wardrobe department.

It just seemed that what they had the actors wearing was a little too modern…

I always pictured hides of animals draped and tied around their bodies…

not the neatly tailored and tightly fitting threads that Crowe and Connelly were styling.

And the accents in these bible-related flicks always gets me.

I really don’t believe English accents existed at that time and place in history.

But, despite those snarky complaints, the move was enjoyable.

And that was a fresh perspective.

I was always taught in Sunday school that Noah’s story was one of redemption.

That God was perfectly good and the world perfectly bad…so God just decided to start over…

and used Noah as his redemptive agent.

In that sense Noah represented a “type” of Christ…

and a foretelling of that other redemptive story that would play out thousands of years later.

But if you stop and think, the story of Noah really does have an ecologically conservative bent.

God chose to save only one family of humans, along with a potential mom and dad of every other living species.

No sir, God wanted it all preserved…

even snakes!

Wasn’t it one of those guys that caused all the problems to begin with??

So, isn’t there a strong message emanating from Noah’s story about God deeming the ecology of this planet somewhat important?

And wouldn’t you know it…here we go again.

What’s it gonna take…another flood?

Because the waters are rising!

You know I was thinking just the other day about the concept of righteousness.

And that’s kind of ironic coming from a guy who is anything but.

Nevertheless, it seems to me that righteousness should go hand in hand with consistency.

That is, one is either consistently righteous, or not at all.

For instance, if you believe it righteous, from a biblical standpoint, to condemn gays…

shouldn’t you also condemn divorcees just as vehemently?

And if God cares about ecology, as the Noah story seems to reflect, shouldn’t we also?

I just don’t get it.

It’s not consistent.

What, do they not believe that God is capable of destroying the earth…again?

Well he might not have to as we have shown ourselves to be perfectly suitable to the task.

If one is being consistent with the bible, especially the story of Noah…one would have to conclude that God is very concerned about ecology…

He does care about more than just us.

After all, he created it all didn’t he?

So why shouldn’t we care?

That seemed to be the underlying message of this flick.

And you know what…

it’s a damn good one.

I guess sometimes it takes a flood to get our attention.

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