. . . by Kathy A. Smith
Most
Christians will agree that the NBC TV movie of Noah's Ark had
barely anything in common with the scriptures of the Bible. A
whole book could be written on all the differences between the
Bible and the movie. This article is not to emphasize the differences,
but to point out the dark motives behind the movie and how dangerous
it was to all those who are not familiar with the word of God.
This movie made a complete fool and mockery out of God and His
holy word. To the unbelieving world, the Bible was deliberately
made to look completely ridiculous and foolish. Those who truly
hate God's word were without doubt behind the making of this film.
Satan's old tactics of getting people to doubt the word of God
are clearly seen throughout the movie and is not even remotely
hidden. An entirely wrong attitude about who God really is was
portrayed all through the movie. The almighty Creator is portrayed
not as a God of love and complete justice, but as
a cruel, unstable God full of hatred and destruction. What a clever
tactic of Satan to use a movie based on one of the most well known
Bible stories to lead people away from God, instead of closer
to Him.
THE MOVIE NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE BIBLICAL STORY
Before getting to point number one, I do need to explain
some of the differences between the Bible and the way it was changed
by the movie. In the movie, God allows Noah to choose who is righteous
enough to be spared from Sodom and Gomorrah. Noah and his wife
come up with Noah's best friend, Lot and his wife, who were living
as wickedly as everyone else. Lot even admits later on after he
flees Sodom, that he doesn't worship God because God is too strict
on rules and regulations. He wanted to continue living in sin
and even later admits he wasn't worth saving.
BIBLICAL TRUTHS
The Bible never mentioned Noah and Lot as even knowing one another.
Lot was Abraham's nephew who lived in Sodom. The true account
was Abraham, asked God if He would spare the city if there were
ten righteous people within it. God gets to determine who is righteous,
not Noah, who wasn't even apart of the story of Sodom and Gomorrha!
The scriptures in 2 Peter 2:6-9 say: "And turning the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an
overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should
live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation
of the wicked:(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in
seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with
their unlawful deeds;) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly
out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of
judgment to be punished:"
GOD IS THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE
Lot in the biblical account was a totally different man than the
movie portrayed him to be. One reason the Bible gives for God
wanting to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah was to deliver Lot, a righteous
man, from sin and shame. The second reason was to destroy all
the wicked who practiced filthiness and unlawful deeds. Never
in any scripture does God agree to let anyone choose for him who
is worthy or righteous. God is the judge of the earth! (Genesis
18:25) The movies deceptive message portrayed that God will overlook
sin, and if someone is lucky enough, another human being will
be able to save him or her from God's wrath. This totally contradicts
scripture! God also will never save anyone against his or her
will. God is a holy God who cannot overlook sin. "For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;" (Romans
3:23). There is none that is righteous unless they accept
what God has given to them. "For the wages of sin is death;
but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"
(Romans 6:23). "For he (God) hath made him (Jesus) to be
sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him "(2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus is the only
way we can become righteous and be saved, not through Noah, or
a priest, or a Christian, not anybody! "For there is one
God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time"
(1 Timothy 2:5-6).
TWISTED LIES
A direct blow against the Bible is the remark Noah's wife makes
after Noah and his family escape out of Sodom soon after God destroyed
it. Noah says "Maybe we will meet a scribe one day that will
write it all down so future generations will know what happened".
Noah's wife answers sarcastically that you can't trust scribbling
scribes because they change things and by the time the scribes
are finished writing down the story of Sodom and Gomorrah they
will probably say Noah and his family weren't really even there!
This statement is blatantly saying you can't trust those who wrote
down the words of the Bible. It mocks and twists the true story
around making the Bible look foolish because Noah and his family
weren't really there. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in Abraham's
day and this was after Noah's flood not before it.
"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness:" (2 Tim 3:16). The Bible has been under
trial by ungodly men that have tried to destroy or disprove it,
and have repeatedly failed. Voltaire once said, "Another
century and there will be not a Bible on the earth." The
century is gone and the Bible is still the best seller. After
Voltaire died his printing press and his house where he lived
was purchased by the Geneva Bible Society and made a base for
Bibles. So true is the scripture "God forbid: yea, let
God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written," (Romans
3:4).
THE TRUTH THAT SETS MAN FREE
There are many testimonies of men who have started off to disprove
or destroy the Bible and have been converted to Christianity because
of its living word and accuracy. Any person who will honestly
take time to read and study the Bible will agree that it is a
supernatural book. The word of God is pure and living and speaks
everything God wants us to know. The word of God will literally
change a person's life for the better! It has already changed,
saved and set free millions of lives.
OLD TACTIC'S
Satan's goal has always been to get people to doubt the word of
God. Way back in Genesis chapter three Satan entered into the
serpent and tricked Eve by deceiving her into doubting the word
of God. "Yea hath God said". Satan whispers, did God
really say that? This is so people will doubt the word of God.
Satan's lies are never new he always uses the same old tactics.
Once he gets people to doubt they begin to add to God's word (Genesis
3:2-3). After this, Satan will contradict God's word (Genesis
3:4-5). If a person will accept these lies they will be deceived
into not trusting in the word of God, which will send them to
hell. This is Satan's destructive goal and also the goal of those
who are deceived into working for him.
MORE LIES
Another lie portrayed is when Noah is on the boat and God tells
him He has made a mistake by creating humans. God is thinking
about wiping out Noah and his family so this mistake will not
happen again. God is a perfect God who never makes any mistakes.
We only blame things on him when we mess up. The exact middle
verse of the Bible which God supernaturally placed there for a
reason is in Psalm 118:8 -"It is better to trust in the
LORD than to put confidence in man."
In the movie, Noah then pleads with God saying that He's followed
God with all his heart and soul and asks God to spare his family.
God answers harshly by saying he has to think it over carefully
so He won't be available for some time. God tells Noah he will
just have to get through this on his own somehow. This horrendous
statement makes God look unjust, unfaithful and evil to the people
who have chosen to obey him. This again, is a total contradiction
of God's word making God look like He is out of control and having
no clue what he wants to do next. Over all, the statement suggests
that we can never trust God. Man can improve by himself and doesn't
need a God who isn't in control. This again teaches us to doubt
God's word because God Himself even says He makes mistakes. This
statement suggests God cannot be trusted because Noah has followed
Him with all his heart and soul and God may still decide to destroy
Noah and his family. All through the movie, God is falsely portrayed
as being a strict God with many rules and regulations.
CHRISTIANITY vs. RELIGION
The movie portrays that you can never really be good enough to
please God. Any unbeliever watching a movie like this one will
be led farther away from a loving God that really wants to save
them. This is just another movie and allegation that has been
purposely planted in minds, brainwashing people into believing
that God is a distant, unloving and unfaithful God. To hear false
statements over and over again through the media, causes unhealthy
thoughts about who God is. People feel they are without hope by
statements like these. Since the beginning, man has tried to get
to God through religion or by the works of His hands. Christianity
is the complete opposite. Christianity is true freedom! The big
difference is that Christ has paid the price so we don't have
to be burdened with all the rules to try to ever hope to make
it to God. Christianity is about a loving and forgiving God reaching
down to humanity by sending His son Jesus, to die on the cross
for the forgiveness of sin, and by faith, we believe and we are
saved! "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the
Lord shall be saved" (Romans 10:13).
When we give our lives over to Jesus Christ we are made righteous
by His blood shed on the cross. We will than want to please Him
by doing good works, because we love Him and we are committed
to Him. Good works will never produce anything in God's eyes unless
first we make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of
our life. The void in our life will then be completely filled
with the peace and love of God, that passes all understanding!
"If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be
free indeed" (John 8:36). Jesus speaking "I am come
that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly"
(John 10:10).
THE PERFECT GOD
The Bible never mentions that God has ever made any mistakes or
that He ever had second thoughts about wiping out Noah. Genesis
6:8-9 clearly states "But Noah found grace in the eyes of
the LORD. These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man
and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God".
Noah was just, perfect, because he walked with God. God never
forgets us once we are his children. Just as the beautiful scripture
states; "And God remembered Noah, and every living thing,
and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made
a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; (made
to cease) "(Genesis 8:1). In the New Testament
Jesus blesses us with His promise "I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee."(Hebrews 13:5)
FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD
God loves us now, and he also loved the people back in the days
of Noah. Back then, man had willingly corrupted themselves and
the earth and gave God no other choice but to destroy them. "And
GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on
the earth, and it grieved him at his heart"(Genesis 6:5-6).
God's heart was grieved! God's holiness demanded that He judge
the world of the ungodly and wicked. God is longsuffering towards
his creation:
"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering
of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing,
wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water." (1
Pet 3:20) A holy, loving, righteous God waited and waited
for people to stop living so wicked and violent towards one another.
All He wanted was their obedience. "And the LORD said,
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is
flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."(Genesis
6:3). This verse seems to say God gave the people 120 years
to repent. Once their time was up it was too late for the wicked.
These people all had the choice to repent, but unfortunately they
choose not to and were destroyed by the flood. God did not create
us like puppets on a string. He created us with our own choice.
We can disobey Him or either obey Him because we love Him. This
is true love. God in His mercy even used Noah to preach to the
world the way of righteousness, so they had no excuse at all.
All God wanted was for people to love Him and obey Him as Noah
did. "And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the
eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood
upon the world of the ungodly;"(2 Peter 2:5). God is
a loving God of mercy, but He is also a God of judgment. God is
holy and is very serious about sin. Sin must be punished!
GOD REMEMBERS
Another fabricated part of the movie portrays Noah and his family
beginning to go mad. God says that He will wipe them out. This
is a complete contradiction of scripture once again. Again the
beautiful verse is forgotten "And God remembered Noah".
God never forgets His people, and He will always deliver the righteous.
Noah dances before God, which flatters God and He decides to spare
him and let him live. This is another lie from the pit of hell
that plants in people minds we can work our way to God. Believing
they don't have to worry about eternity until after death because
they will only need to do something about it then deceives a person.
Somehow, the person believes, he will stay out of hell. The truth
is, we doom ourselves to hell when we disobey God and reject His
son Jesus. God has told us the truth, but just like Noah's day
millions of people will reject it so they can live wickedly and
by their own lusts. God then has no choice but to destroy them
in Hell. "And fear not them which kill the body, but are
not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28). "And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death" (Revelation 20:14).
God clearly made the way of salvation not by works, but by
grace. "For by grace are ye saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of
works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).
THE UNSPEAKABLE LIE
The movie ends with yet another reprehensible lie even worse then
all the rest. God promises Noah that He would never raise his
hand against the wicked again. He will keep silent and not destroy
them, meaning He will never judge the world again. This again
is a deceiving lie of Satan. God promised not to destroy the world
again with a flood but next time with fire. "Whereby the
world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But
the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are
kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment
and perdition of ungodly men" (2 Peter 3:6-7). This scripture
explains that the world in Noah's day perished and the earth will
once again come under God's judgment because of ungodliness. God
will cleanse the earth with fire because of ungodliness. He will
once again deliver His people (all true born again Christians)
out of judgment. All these stories were written as an example
for us to learn from them.
A SATANIC DOCTRINE?
The Satanic doctrine that was pushed across in this movie was
that God is distant, uncaring, unloving, not trustworthy and He
will never judge the world again. People falsely believe they
can then live as wickedly as they want. They do not want to think
that one day they will be accountable for their sins and have
to stand in judgment before a holy God. This causes them to run
from God. These kinds of movies will take many people to Hell
unless the truth is preached. Will you hear what God is saying?
"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). "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief
in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the
earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up"
(2 Peter 3:9-10).
THE DAYS OF GRACE
We are now in the days of grace. Two thousand years ago, Jesus
came as God in the flesh to die for the sins of humankind so we
could be forgiven for our sins. Once again God has been long suffering
wanting none to perish. He still shines the sun and lets it rain
on the just and the unjust. Each day the sins and abominations
of man are once again reaching God's throne and then will come
a time of great tribulation like never before. The age of grace
is about to come to an end. Are you ready for Christ's return?
You need to be, before it's to late! "But as the days
of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For
as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and
took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man
be" (Matthew 24:37-39).
THE WARNING
You have now been warned, just like the people were warned in
the days of Noah. The Bible tells us there was only one
door by which Noah and his family could go in to be saved.
Almighty God shut that door. There is only one door
that we can enter by in this age of grace. Jesus said, "I
am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved,
(John 10:9a). One day the door will be shut once again. Will
you wait until it's too late, or will you repent and turn from
sin and accept Christ as the only way of salvation, by making
him your Lord, Savior, and master of your life? Or will you perish
like the people in the days of Noah did and spend eternity in
hell separated from almighty God. God loves you and is giving
you a free decision. It's your choice. . .
THE WONDERFUL NEWS
Read what God has done for you. "For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John
3:16). God is a God of love who sent His only begotten son
to be crucified and to die a horrible death so our sins could
be forgiven. For I delivered unto you first of all that which
I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again
the third day according to the scriptures: (1 Corinthians 15:3-4).
Jesus was buried and rose again on the third day and is now
seated on the right hand of God the Father making intercession
for his saints. He now has the keys to death, hell and the grave,
and is coming back again for his saints. "For the Lord
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort
one another with these words" (1Thessalonians 4:16-18).
Jesus Christ is coming back for all the righteous people who have
trusted in the shed blood of His atonement.
THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISION
Accepting Christ is the most important decision one can make in
this lifetime. It is an eternal decision! No one but God knows
what tomorrow holds; "behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation" (2 Corinthians 6:2).
One of Satan's biggest lies is to tell people to wait. He
only comes to kill, steal and destroy.
God is saying; "Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall
go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall
seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your
heart. And I will be found of you, saith the LORD:" (Jeremiah
29:12-14a).
"Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say
unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom
of God" (John 3:3).
The Bible says; "That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart
that God hath raised him (Jesus) from the dead, thou shalt be
saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation"(Romans
10:9-10). To receive Christ into your life right now just
say a simple prayer like the one below meaning it with all your
heart:
Dear Lord God. I come to You a sinner and I humbly repent. I believe
that Jesus is Lord and I believe You raised Him from the dead.
I ask that Jesus will come into my life and be my Lord and Savior.
I receive Jesus to change and take control of my life that I may
live for Him from this day forth and from now on. Thank You Lord
Jesus for saving me and cleansing me with Your precious blood.
In Jesus name, Amen.
3 very important steps to take as a new Christian seeking to
grow in the Lord:
1). Read the Bible daily (a good place to start is in
the New Testament with the Gospel of John). Don't have a Bible
read it on the web.
2). Pray daily.
3). Find a Bible believing church that preaches the full
gospel of Christ. Pray that God will lead you to the right one.
Fellowshipping with other believers is a very important step to
growth in Christ.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior:
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