Sunday, November 25, 2012

Do You Know About Noah? [1]

He is the first great bible Hero and was descended from Methuselah
Even if we are uncertain of the real meaning of his great age; we can see that these people form a link in the narrative with the famous boat builder.

When Methuselah was 187, he had a son, Lamech. He had other children and died at the age of 969. When Lamech was 182, he had a son, and said, "this child will bring us relief from God's punishment."; so he named him Noah. Lamech died at the age of 777.

So often, in the Bible, it's people's names that help tell the story.

What do you mean?

Why did mum and dad give you your name?

They liked the sound of it, I suppose?

Well, the name "Noah" come from a Hebrew word meaning "to bring relief"

He "brought relief" by saving the people God chose to go into the Ark, but this picture is very unrealistic. It was painted in 1675, by a bloke called 'Franzosischer Meister' - not his real name 'cos it means 'French Master'. Apart from the over-complicated boat, you can be sure that there weren't Greek-style buildings. Noah and his people probably lived in caves or crude mud huts!

So Noah built a big boat; and the animals went in two by two; and they escaped the flood. A pretty fairy story, but not much else, surely.
And, (snigger snigger), did he take a woodpecker?

We'll just read what the Bible words say ...


God saw that the people of the world did evil continually, but Noah had no faults and was the only good man of the time.

God said "I have decided to put an end to all mankind so build an ark, take your family and samples of all the animals with you." So Noah did everthing that the Lord had commanded.

Oooer! It sounds a bit more serious than just a pretty story.

But is that "ark" the same as in the film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark". It's been on the telly about a hundred times. They all get dissolved in the end.
Horrid!

The "Lost Ark" was a very posh gold-covered box which appears much, much later on in the Bible story. The picture is of a reconstruction; the real Ark of the Covenant was lost about 3000 years ago. And, no, it's not in a secret warehouse in America!

Noah's ark was probably thousands of years earlier (maybe as early as 10,000 BC) and was most definitely not a boat. It was a very big box! There's not much point in having a point on the boat; it didn't have sails or an engine. It just went where the wind and the waves sent it.

So if Noah's Ark wasn't a boat, what did it look like?

We'll find out next time.

And was there really a world wide flood? It sounds impossible.

That's a bit tricky, but we'll get there in the end.

And God sounds like a very cruel God, bumping off everybody who didn't do what he said.
All those poor people, drownded?

Another challenge to think about later.

Sound as if this is likely to be tough going. My head'll start hurting all over again

 Next Bible Blog : Tuesday 27th November 

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