The Real Story About “Noah” 1. Please take the time to read Genesis 6-11. 2. Use the interest that people have to talk to them about the Biblical account of the creation, fall and redemption of mankind. 3. Seize the moment to share the Good News of Jesus (Gospel). 4. If you attend the movie please be aware that many misinterpretations and misrepresentations of the real story occur. 5. Spoiler Alert!!!!! Don’t read what follows if you don’t want to know the story line. Sitting in a crowded theatre on opening night of “Noah,” starring Russell Crowe, began with hopeful expectations that the Hollywood production would at least remain faithful to the main storyline, even though I anticipated a fair amount of artistic license would be taken. What followed was a serious misrepresentation of the Biblical story and the character of God. Yes, God created the world a marvelous place that man with a disobedient and sinful heart would come to corrupt. At one point Noah acknowledges to his wife that “we are all wicked.” Sinfulness lies at the heart of each of us. The movie conveys this and even communicates the Creator’s right even justification for destroying the world. However, according to “Noah,” God is most angry with man’s abuse of the creation. Creation must be saved from man! Do you sense those who worship God as mother earth cheering in the background? A serious effort is made to replicate the idea of the ark, and its only means of saving Noah’s family. The Ark resembles what you would think it would look like based upon the Biblical account. Even Russell Crowe looked like a potential Noah. While there are some aspects of the movie that reflect the Biblical story, the plot is distorted and characters that never existed in scripture appear. The movie mangles the story with glow rocks that create explosions and “watchers,” which appear to be the fallen angels God cast out of heaven, who are now helping Noah. Sound familiar? Probably not! This is just the beginning of the problems with the movie. Moving ahead to Noah’s family in the ark. Yes, it does save them, that is all of them but the two other daughter in laws that never make on the ark. Ham’s potential wife, that he finds in an open grave does not make it because Noah does not have the same desire to save her as he did the suffering animal at the beginning of the movie. By the way, did you know Tubal-Cain was on the ark? At least in the movie he is! There was no need to take “artistic license” here because it only added confusion to the main story as well as total misrepresentation concerning Ham, Noah’s second son. What becomes very disturbing is how Noah is portrayed as some psychotic, delusionary man trapped on the ark, bent on doing “God’s will.” Humanity is destined for destruction with an environmentalist named Noah on board to save it. While a genuine struggle of Noah could have been reasonably conjectured, showing him as a crazy father bent on serving God by killing his grandchildren does not tell the story of Genesis. The movie does more to show Noah’s belief that his purpose is to save the animals than to save his family. In the end, I found myself laughing hysterically at the what my friend Pete called, “the glow rocks” that were something out of a science fiction movie. I am concerned that people who don’t know the real story might miss God’s desire to exercise redemption as well as judgment. God was turned into myth, saga and legend with a desire to save animals and destroy humanity. I was hoping that Hollywood might get the story right, but they did not. The best and most redemptive thing that can come from this movie is if Christians become familiar with the Biblical story and use it to engage lost friends and family who have gone to see the movie. Last, I would like to say that the Christian leaders and theologians who endorsed this movie used little discernment in allowing their names to be associated with this marketing for millions movie. ~ Pastor Joe Worley
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:38:59 +0000
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