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To: GBA

I have to disagree with you on the parallel between the environmental message of Aronofsky’s exploitation of Noah’s Flood, and the Judgement.

Aronofsky’s storyline argues that man has devastated the earth due to over population, etc. God’s Word NEVER mentions overpopulation as being a problem on His creation. As a matter, he commands man to “...be fruitful and multiply”. In the old and the new Testament, we see God illustrating the blessing and benefits of marriage and children. We never read about the Lord commanding his people to reduce the population, or to have just “one child”.

So there is no parallel. The biblical account of Noah’s flood speaks of man’s total depravity and complete rejection of God. Aronofsky’s film focuses on the environment and not our Creator.


14 posted on 03/03/2014 10:16:24 PM PST by This Just In
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To: This Just In
You're right with your post.

I'm making a very loose comparison based on mankind having polluted the earth then and now such that God has to clean up the place, not the EPA.

From a certain point of view, and without seeing the movie or wanting to, they accidentally get partial credit, though I doubt that point of view was their intention, though I pray it will be.

15 posted on 03/03/2014 10:33:47 PM PST by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: This Just In

The story of the flood is universal and believable and the idea that God might have warned the one guy to build an ark is also believable. What ISN’T believable is that God would have wiped the entire Earth over sin only to have sin back in business as if nothing had happened forty years later. I give God credit for being a bit brighter than that...


17 posted on 03/03/2014 10:49:51 PM PST by varmintman
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