Noah's Ark: Love, Care, Peace and Family?

What a massive replica this must be, if indeed it is to Biblical scale. I can only imagine how much effort and money this must have taken to build this. Although impressive in size, I wonder if the message of Noah's Ark will be lost if people think that this Biblical account is about love, care, peace and uh, family?



The words love, care, peace and family may be used to describe the account inaccurately if one understands these words from a human perspective. If one is thinking about the love and care of God for His elect, then yes, the story is partially about love and care. If one is thinking about the peace that God has with those that come to Him in faith for salvation, then yes, the story is partially about peace, too. But from a human standpoint, I don't think most people would be thinking about love, care and peace from this perspective. They may be more inclined to think this story is merely about the human love that is portrayed by Noah for his family and Noah's love for "mother nature" and her animals. That, I am convinced, is merely a man-centered perspective of looking at the Bible and in no way communicates the Biblical message of sin and salvation--which is what God intends for us to know from the account of Noah's ark.

God hates sin and will punish and destroy those who violate His holy nature and do not love His holy nature. Yet, God has made provision for salvation. That provision comes through faith in what God has said...faith in His Word...faith in the Living Word. When we take God at His Word, we are credited with the righeousness of God and are spared from the wrath of God for our sin and sin nature. Those poor souls who did not believe Noah's message from God were not spared, just as any soul who fails to believe God's Word will not be spared from the final judgment and destruction to come.

The rain of God's wrath is coming and will last not for 40 days and 40 nights but for all eternity. There is an ark that we can climb into to be spared from these horrible rains and floodwaters. That ark is Christ. We need to be immersed and baptized in Him. Like the ark covered Noah and His family from certain death, so the righteousness of Christ and His shed blood covers us from the wrath and damnation of God. This is God's love. This is God's care. This is peace with God. This makes us heirs and family of God. So if the story of Noah's ark is intended to communincate love, care, peace and family from this perspective, I say "AMEN!" If not, then I say "anathema" to the person who preaches a false gospel and message from Scripture.

There's nothing wrong with using the words love, care, peace and family to teach the account of Noah's ark. But you can have two separate meanings, understandings and perspectives depending on how you proclaim the story. And if you fail to use words like sin, judgment, death and salvation in the story of Noah's ark, then you've only told part of the story. Let's make sure we use the Biblical meanings to tell the whole story rightly.