Corruption Of Noah In The Bible

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Willie Van Sant
Mrs. Hunter
Bible 9-1
29 September 2015
Noah
Noah was a God-fearing, obedient Character from the Old Testament whose life can still teach us today. His father, Lamech, named him Noah, meaning “rest or comfort” (“Noah”) and said “Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed, this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.” (Genesis 5:29 ESV) Noah lived in a world full of corruption and was the only person in his generation that followed God. “Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.” (Genesis 6:9 ESV) Noah did just as God instructed him to do. He followed and trusted God despite what others did or thought. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and …show more content…

One day God spoke to Noah and told him that he was going to destroy the earth and all the people in it God also told Noah to build and ark that would save him and his family from the destruction. God gave him detailed instruction on how to build it and Noah built the ark just as God had told him to. The construction of the ark took 100 years to complete. It was by far the largest ship any one at that time had seen. It was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits tall. It was to have three decks and a slanted roof with 1 cubit variation at the peak to the bottom. Two cubits is about 1 yard so this boat was about 150 yards long, 25 yards wide and 15 yard …show more content…

Noah followed God’s commands and got all the animals in the ark. Noah and his family then got in the ark and the rains came. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. Then the rain stopped and the water slowly started to recede. After spending more than a year on the ark with his family and all those animals, God told Noah to come out. After Noah came out of the ark, he built an altar and sacrificed burnt offerings on it. God was pleased with Noah’s obedience and promised Noah and his family that he would never again destroy all the earth and the living things in it. As a sign of this covenant, God placed a rainbow in the clouds to remind generations to come of this promise. This story of Noah teaches us that obedience is important to God, that God is trustworthy, and that God is all-powerful. God saw Noah’s obedience and chose to save Him because of it. The disobedience of all other people on earth made him angry enough to destroy them. Noah trusted God and built a huge boat on dry ground even though it didn’t make sense to anyone around him. God proved Himself trustworthy by saving Noah when everything else was destroyed. God proved his almighty power by flooding the entire earth and destroying everything in

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