The suggestion is that there was something different about Noah. Why say that?
1 Peter 3:18-20 18 For Christ R177 also died for sins once R178 for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring R179 us to God, having been put to death in R180 the flesh, but made alive in R181 the spirit; F62 19 in which F63 also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison, 20 who once were disobedient, when the patience R182 of God kept R183 waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the R184 ark, in which a few, that is, eight R185 persons, R186 were brought safely through the water. F642 Peter 2:3-6 3 and in their greed R69 they will exploit R70 you with false R71 words; their R72 judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. 4 For if R73 God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed R74 them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; 5 and did not spare the R75 ancient world, but preserved Noah, R76 a preacher F12 of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood R77 upon the world of the ungodly; 6 and if He condemned R78 the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example R79 to those who would live R80 ungodly lives thereafter;
Something separated Noah so that he found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Are there any hints above as to what it might have been?
I say this because I simply do not believe that God acts arbitrarily.
***The suggestion is that there was something different about Noah.***
So, what do you think was different about Noah that made him worthy of salvation?
***I say this because I simply do not believe that God acts arbitrarily.***
Well, since you contrast arbitrary with God seeing things which cause him to save people, then what is it that made Noah worthy of salvation?
In the service of the Lord,
Christian.
Not necessarily. You could read that as Noah "received" favor from God. As Christian pointed out, you're interpretation implies Noah did something.