Posted on 03/21/2014 5:57:38 AM PDT by C19fan
Darren Aronofsky wrestles one of scripture's most primal stories to the ground and extracts something vital and audacious, while also pushing some aggressive environmentalism, in Noah. Whereas for a century most Hollywood filmmakers have tread carefully and respectfully when tackling biblical topics in big-budget epics aimed at a mass audience, Aronofsky has been daring, digging deep to develop a bold interpretation of a tale which, in the original, offers a lot of room for speculation and invention. The narrative of the global flood that wiped out almost all earthly life is the original disaster story, one that's embraced by most of the major world religions, which means that conservative and literal-minded elements of all faiths who make it their business to be offended by untraditional renditions of holy texts will find plenty to fulminate about here. Already banned in some Middle Eastern countries, Noah will rile some for the complete omission of the name God from the dialogue, others for its numerous dramatic fabrications and still more for its heavy-handed ecological doomsday messages, which unmistakably mark it as a product of its time.
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Jezebel was Canaanite, and her daughter Athaliah was half Canaanite and half Israelite.
The Nephilim, for fairly obvious reasons, all died in the flood, so it’s not a bit surprising Jesus had none of their blood.
Noah probably fights off ninja’a in this one
Hate to do this to you, but it's for the greater good, was the bloodline of Christ important to Yahwah as you previously stated that it wasn't?
I’m not the one who claimed there was some group of people of “impure blood” who needed to be excluded from Christ’s ancestry.
Sure you did. It didn't even matter to you.
In fact, there is very little support in the Bible, even in the OT, for the notion that God cares much at all about bloodlines. None at all in the NT.
I said there was NOT some group of people who needed to be excluded, not that there was.
You seem to be more vague as we go along here. Want to start over?
You brought up the, unsupported by Genesis IMO, notion that Noah was special not because he was a righteous man of faith, but because he and his sons were the only surviving humans not “polluted” by demonic/Nephilim blood. And that the reason for this was an attempt to destroy the bloodline necessary to produce Christ, or perhaps more accurately, Mary.
To document this I pointed out that in the two reported lines of Christ’s ancestry, there are a significant number of known non-Israelite women. With the reasonable assumption there are a bunch more in his millions of other ancestors in the thousand years between David and Mary.
IMO God does not obsess about bloodlines, since there are multiple examples of faith being the critical issue for him.
Hebrews 11: By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.
No mention here at all of his bloodline.
So who do you think the “polluted people” descended from the Nephilim were in ancient days and today? And how did the Nephilim survive the flood?
If you want to believe that the satanic blood line is in Christ, go ahead and believe it.
I just don’t believe there IS any satanic bloodline among humans, and hasn’t been since the flood.
So who are its representatives today?
So who are its representatives today?
Ever hear of Kenites? Did you ever read of Jesus describing them 2000 years after the flood?
Or that there was 2 of each animal instead of 7 pairs
Genesis 6:4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
“...and also afterward”
True. That’s is why the Lord used the “sword of Israel” to go after them.
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