More handpicked essays just for you.
Essay 3 full pages Noah in the bible Life and story about Noah
Flood narrative in bible
The two floods in the bible
Don’t take our word for it - see why 10 million students trust us with their essay needs.
Noah and the Ark
The story of Noah and the ark is probably one of the most read stories of the bible. Perhaps it is because of the great tragedy it portrays, or because it is a story of salvation. Noah and his family along with the animals were saved from the flood, while the other people and animals perished as a result of it.
Growing up the story of Noah and the ark was one of my favorites; Quite simply because of the drawings depicting the story. They appeared so beautiful, when after many years I'm realizing the whole of the story. The story of the destruction of mankind, and the story of regrowth. I chose this topic because I realized how little I really do know about Noah and the ark. I will relay the story of Noah and the ark as well as answer a couple questions I have. Who was Noah, and why was he chosen by God? What did he possess that God didn't see in others? I will also look at what was going on at the time as far as why God wanted to erase all of life. “The story of Noah and the ark is one of the most cherished episodes and the most terrifying.”(Readers Digest)
This paper is not going to explore the possibilities of building such an ark, or weather it was sufficient enough to hold all the animals Noah was to board. I will not be comparing different stories of the flood, although that would be interesting as well. I am going to look deeper into the story of Noah and the ark. I am looking for reasons for the flood, and reasons Noah was chosen for the task of building the ark.
Noah was the ninth decedent from Adam. Noah was the son of Lamech, and the grandson of Methuselah, and the great-grandson of Enoch who “walked with God”. Lamech called his son Noah as to say, “This one will console us for the pain of our hands' work from the soil which the Lord cursed.” (Genesis, pg 25)
Men began to increase in number.“ The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil, continually. And the LORD was sorry that he had made man on the earth and it grieved his to his heart.(Genesis 6:5-6) The LORD was going to wipe out the human race, the cattle, the crawling things and the fowl. God said “I regret that I have made them. (Genesis 6:7-8) The LORD found favor in the eyes of Noah. Noah was chosen by God to build an ark. Noah was chosen because he was a r...
... middle of paper ...
... the purpose that God commanded it, which was to save Noah and his family. This shows others that we too will be saved if we do as God commands.
The story of Noah is a story that should remind us that there are consequences for abusing God's laws. We are to remember that we all have a responsibility to abide by the laws God put forth. It is a story of salvation. Noah was saved as opposed to the others who died in the flood. The others didn't do as God commanded them.
As the LORD says in Jeremiah 18:7-8 “If at any time I announce that a nation or kingdom is to be uprooted, torn down and destroyed, and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned.” It appears that the LORD would have allowed other people to repent and perhaps be saved from the flood, just like Noah.
I would assume that people made fun of Noah and his sons for building the ark. The other people, much like Noah had probably never seen rain, and therefore failed to believe that a flood was coming. These nonbelievers perished in the flood. It was to late for them to repent. They had their chance, but chose not to change their ways.
It contains useful comparisons and historical data to help support his analysis. The author considers the story to hold very value for Christians. It concerns the typical myths that were tied to pagan people. Despite that theory, there have been many Christians who have studied the afterlife and creation in the epic. He suggests an interesting thought when he starts to explain the story. The author hints that maybe the main character, Gilgamesh, was a historical figure. The base analysis for his line of thought is the story of the flood found in the bible. After looking at the lengths of time of each story, he considers it to not be a problem. To provide some evidence, the author shows a chart of a series of questions about each flood and compares the two. The most striking comparison in the chart was the command to build a boat; "O man of Shuruppak, son of Ubar-Tutu, tear down thy house, build a ship; abandon wealth, seek after life; scorn possessions, save thy life. Bring up the seed of all kinds of living things into the ship which thou shalt build. Let its dimensions be well measured."17 The text from the quote can almost match what the bible said. In both stories the person was commanded to build a boat because a flood is coming due to man’s sins or man’s wickedness. In the conclusion of the article, the author says a bold statement; “the widespread nature of flood traditions throughout the entire human race is exce...
It rained for forty days and nights during the Great Flood while Noah with his family and animals stayed on the ark.
Flood myths help to explain events which cannot be controlled, such as natural disasters. The Hebrew flood myth tells of a man named Noah, who is selected, along with his family, to survive an epic flood. The flood must occur to cleanse the world of its impurities (Leeming, 47-53). The “flood” in Mabel’s own life involves the many things she loses: her mother, her family’s money, her idea of the future. However, these losses allow her to become a stronger person, to move away from merely being a daughter or a sister and become Mabel (Lawrence, 1-15).
Most of us have probably heard the famous bible story about Noah’s Ark and The Flood. What most may not know, is that this story is just one of a great many. A variety of ancient cultures, from the Greeks and the Middle East, to Asia and the Americas, have in their mythologies a story of a Great Flood that drowns the earth. These stories mostly contain the same themes: a god or group of gods becomes angry; they flood the earth but save a small group of people. These people build a boat to survive. After the flood they repopulate the earth.
Babylon’s Ark is the story of Lawrence Anthony a South African entered Iraq in hopes of saving the Baghdad Zoo. The Baghdad Zoo was in the middle of a war zone so parts of the walls were damaged, some animals had escaped and the ones that were trapped in their cages had to constantly endure the sounds of bomb shells going off and avoids the looters that were constantly trying to eat them. Upon Anthony’s arrival the prospect of the zoo surviving were slim to none. He even considered putting a bullet in each one of the animals because at the time it may have been the most humane thing to do.
Their use of religion is the reason for the success or failure of all three male characters’ objectives. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories that were told during a pilgrimage to St. Thomas’s Tomb in Canterbury and a religious undertone was present throughout the stories. The life of people in late 1400s was heavily based around religion and religious institutions were in control of every aspect of life and people believed these institutions without any questions. This is similar to John’s thinking and naïve belief in Nicholas’s story. The religious institutions are not as powerful today as they were in the Middle Ages. Today, stories of the Great Flood would be struck down quickly due to the advances in science, technology, and education.
After the events on the boat regarding the twin children, Noah acts as if he has failed God for being unable to murder the two and carry out his plan, implying that God had actually wished for and expected Noah to murder his grandchildren. This played into portraying both God and Noah as vicious and cruel. In the story written in the Bible, God had chosen Noah to build the ark because he was the only one without wickedness present in his heart. However, he is featured in the film as one who was cold-hearted and would be willing to do anything to ensure that there would not be a future for
Most importantly, Genesis offers teachings on the natural world, human identity, human relationships, and civilization. Natural World In regards to the natural world, Genesis 1-3 tells of how God created the world, the creation of man, and the fall of man. The Earth was dark and without form, then God spoke everything into existence. Relationships play a major role in humans’ lives on a day-to-day basis.
The flood story that is told in The Epic of Gilgamesh has the same principle as the story of Noah told in the book of Genesis in the Bible, but there are some major differences. In the epic, Utnapishtim is immortal and, although Noah was extremely old when he died, he wasn’t immortal. Utnapishtim was a human, but because he saved mankind, Enlil said, “Hitherto Utnapishtim has been a human, now Utnapishtim and his wife shall become like us gods.” (Gilgamesh 11.206-207) In the Biblical story, God told Noah that he was going to send a flood and asked him specifically to make the ark in order to save mankind. In Genesis 6:13-22, God tells Noah why he’s flooding the earth and exact instructions to build the ark. “13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. 14 So make yourself an ark of cypress[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 15 This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.[b] 16 Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit[c] high all arou...
In the Mesopotamian version: the gods apparently displeased with the evils of mankind decided to destroy it by means of a great flood. Ea, the god of wisdom and subtlety, was privy to their council and warned Utnapishtim, the Babylonian Noah, of the coming disaster. Utnapishtim was told to build a ship thirty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Provision it and put in it specimens of every living thing. Then to board it with his family and possessions and launch it on the waters.
Other similarities closely tie these two Flood Myths almost mirroring the symbolic ideas within both stories. The number seven is very significant in both of these stories. In the story of Utnapishtim, the Boat he built was finished on the seventh day. Also the rain that flooded the earth, stopped on the seventh day. In the Hebrew story of Noah, the waters of the flood were upon the earth seven days after Noah constructed the arc. After the earth was flooded and the rain subsided, during two seven day instances, Noah sent forth a dove to determine if dry land existed nearby. The two stories also showed that the Gods gave specific instructions down to the dimension regarding the construction of the two boats and both men were ordered to keep the blood line of animals alive by sparing the lives of a male a female being of each species.
Both are in someone’s play and to fulfill their role they follow commands by God. In Genesis 6-11, Noah upholds a future image for the fate of humanity once God decides to flood away all evil and corruption. The journey serves as a test of faith for Noah in following and believing in Gods commands. The tone God that used to lecture Noah into building an ark of cypress was calm and informative. The concept here describes Noah as a vital piece to solve God’s error when creating heaven and earth.
In the first book of the Old Testament, Genesis, we read of the fall of man. As we study the Bible and recognize it’s importance in our lives today we must realize the role these stories play in our time. The Bible is not simply a history book or a book of stories of morality, but it is a book that speaks to us today of how we should live and interact with God. We are confronted with this fact in Genesis “through a graphic and dramatic representation it gives a
In the Bible Noah is referred to as “a preacher of righteousness” (Peter 2:5). Noah is a man of God who receives warning of a great flood to cover the planet, sent by God to wash the sins of mankind clean. When Noah builds the Ark, his wife and three sons board. The rest of the Earth, and humanity is drowned with Gods anger. When the waters resides, the Ark is said to have come to rest in the Mountains of Ararat. (Gen. 8.4) The Quran goes into depth about the dialogue that Noah had with the “wicked”. He successfully converts several faithful to his Ark, but his wife and one sons reject Noah, and drown in the rain. When the flood resides, the Quran says that Noah, and his Ark come to rest on Mount Judi, which is a specific peak of the Ararat mountain range in modern day Turkey. Contrary to the Bible, and although certain Islamic scholars claim different interpretations, the Quran does not teach that there was a global flood, just a severe flooding of the region. Noah story changes depending on who is telling it, and the inconsistencies between scriptures continue into the times of