First thoughts on watching Noah: 1) It wasnt even close to as bad stylisticaly as Beck and Erickson would have you believe. It did have some art house moments, but frankly, they were interesting. (Watch the progression of man closely. It is very 20th century) 2) This was a highly fictionalized account. Some of the plot devices were ridiculous to the point of Smurf (and not just the rock people), but hey, the guys who made it WERENT CHRISTIANS. So who cares? Absolutely no one is going to this movie to learn the Truth of the Bible, but turns out theyre getting some anyway! Bonus! 3) They got some facts wrong. Yes. They made some stuff completely up. Yes. They also did a bang up job of showing a fallen world, though I dont think they got it quite fallen enough. But thats just me. 4) The environmental thing was a major backseat issue to vegetarians good, meat-eaters bad. Could you hit me over the head with that some more, please? ugh. 5) Im betting a huge percentage of the people who watch this movie - believers and unbelievers alike - either read the actual Biblical account before going to the theater, or will read the Biblical account directly after. Because it really does get you thinking. Where did they pull x from? Why did they think rock people were a good idea? And did Noah really do y? What does the actual story really say??? That, my friends, is a good thing. 6) Finally, the Bible says that if we do not spread the Word, even the rocks (haha, pun not intended) will cry out, and that the Truth is written on every heart. God has mightily used an Atheist and his Leftist pagan friends to make a movie that professes our Creator God, depicts the 7 day creation with only a tiny bit of evolutionist fiction, shows the Fall and depravity of man (over and over again - they want the Fall burned into our brains), and gives a depth of the magnitude of what God worked through Noah that the flannel graph can never capture. We need to think more deeply on our Old Testament Stories. Because they arent childrens stories. They are real events with real consequences felt in a very real way by the people that lived them. Noah was a man who saw all of creation die save his family and the animals on the Ark. That was a terrible burden. One we never think of while singing about animals two by two. We should think on these things more. It would put our own walk with God and our burdens into much better perspective.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:43:50 +0000
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