Noah

The Old Testament account of Noah and the great flood has become one of the great stumbling-blocks today, not so much for unbelievers as for Christians. The story of Noah is so fantastical, so at odds with common experience, and with scientific dogma, that it has been relegated to the category of “myth.”

As is the case with other New Testament references to the Old Testament, any attempt to hold the “difficult” passages in the Old Testament as “myth” will inevitably compromise the New Testament. Whereas the pagans generally don’t know and don’t care about the historicity of Jesus Christ, Christians who play carelessly with the historicity of the Old Testament generally refuse to do so with the New Testament.

We cannot have Jesus Christ as the bearer of truth to us and have Him a deluded person. Jesus Christ accepted the authority of the Pentateuch, which contains the accounts of Noah, quoting from it.

Luke 17:26-27, “And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: They ate, they drank, they married wives, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.” In this passage Jesus appealed to the example of Noah, among others in the Old Testament.


Excerpts from "Lessons from Noah"