Went to the opening of Noah last night with my husband. With all - TopicsExpress

Went to the opening of Noah last night with my husband. With all the controversy and divisiveness that it has raised in the Christian community, I especially was ready to evaluate what all the fuss was about. This was not this big evil picture that some in the Christian community are giving the director of the film grief over. Christian brethren, if you think you are doing God a favor by complaining and defending Him because Hollywood wont give you scriptural perfection, stop! Your not! You are hampering His work not helping it. All this is accomplishing is creating division and strife between Christians which is NOT of God but of you know who! Yes there were tedious and frustrating spots in it that were definitely not in character with the biblical account but at the same time there was much in it that was accurate to the biblical account such as the account of creation being related by Noah to his family on the ark, the illustrated depravity and rebellion against God by men, the animals, the birds, the creeping and crawling coming to Noah, the cinematic effects that certainly illustrate the feasibility of a cataclysmic flood, the pain and suffering of hearing people dying outside the ark, those that certainly wanted to take over the ark, the fact that Methuselah outlived Lamech and was still alive and died in the flood, the fact we dont know the struggles members in the family had to go thru on the ark be cause the scriptures are silent on it, the biblical account of Noah getting drunk and Shem and Japeth covering his nakedness and last but not least, the rainbows. Its been said that this is a dark film but indeed this was one of the darkest times in mankinds history whose continuous evil thoughts and actions had to be realistically shown on the big screen to justify God extinguishing it off the earth and starting again. How else could a loving God bring His Son into the midst of that? After all, Its not like the director was out to destroy Noahs character or completely skew the biblical account either. It was pretty admirable that the director had a life size ark built for the movie according to the biblical specifications instead of resorting to camera tricks with a model ark in a fish tank or something. Give the guy some credit and appreciation here. As for the inaccuracies taken in the cause of dramatic license, intentional or not, that amounts to achieving profit at the box office which any producer or director must achieve to pay his financiers for film production. Making movies is an extremely risky business venture. In this movie the tab was 130 million and 16 years. This might be one reason Hollywood deviates from a total scriptural based picture. They may feel they have to beef up the drama. Personally, I think they can achieve the same effect creatively without this. I have seen Christian producer Mark Burnett take the same dramatic license and veer off the scriptural path of accuracy as well. One such instance was in the Jesus TV film series where he totally veered off the famous Lazarus come forth path from outside the tomb of Lazarus to Jesus going into Lazarus tomb and kissing Lazarus on the forehead while Lazarus is laid out on a cement slab with no grave wrappings. Where were the Christian critics The little grace and appreciation shown for the merits that are there in this film ihas been a bad witness to those we are trying to reach with the Gospel. Why are Christian believers willing to sacrifice the loss of the very souls they need to win on the altar of zealous scriptural perfection. I am glad the movie was made and because of it there are people dusting off their Bibles to read the biblical account which wil lead to discussions about the real science surrounding a world wide flood and spiritual truth. In fact it just might be that God allowed this movie to be a catalyst to challenge those old age earth arguments to be reexamined, to consider how a young earth could end up looking like it has aged more than it did. In closing, I want to reason with critical perfectionistic Christians to take the Philippian approach to movies that may not have everything just right but risked the financial capital to tell an epic story like this to the world. The link below is one of many interesting science articles that might provoke further thought about the reality of a worldwide flood. icr.org/article/did-noahs-flood-cover-himalayan-mountains/