After watching Darren Aronofskys NOAH, and revisiting the biblical telling of the myth and reading about the Midrash dialectics, it leaves me wondering. Im sure theres a mechanical fundie-literalist explanation, but its definitely something to mediate on. Its faulty logic that requires duct tape theology to patch the plot holes when you put all these narratives together as if they form one cohesive, narrative continuity. God floods the whole Earth and wipes out all of human and the animals that Noah and his family didnt save on the ark. Thats all of the humans who are decedents of Adam and Eve, theyre all gone except Noah, his wife and sons, and his sons wives. One could logicate that they still carried original sin from Adam. But then it would be logicative to ask how did they procreate the rest of the new population with just Noahs wife and his three sons and their wives? Would they still carry original sin and need Jesus sacrifice to save humanity if all that nonsense was wiped out to begin with in the flood? Of course, I dont believe in original sin or that these stories form a linear, cohesive continuity from Genesis to the Revelation of John on a literal/historical/factual level. But as a narrative thats assumed to run cohesively together from beginning to end, its left me pondering. And perhaps its only a rhetorical pondering... but I was still thinking about it.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 03:39:01 +0000
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