[Alex Murphy]

• You haven't read the Old Testament
• You don't know what Jesus said about Noah
• You believe the first eleven chapters of Genesis are allegorical anyway
• You're used to having a tortured interpretation substituted for the plain meaning of scripture
• It's about "creation care" and "global warming", which fits right in to Catholic Social Teaching
• Your bishop's review is quoted favorably in a local marketing blurb
• Hey, if Mel Gibson is a Catholic, Russell Crowe must be too!
• You've got nothing better to do next Sunday

[Hacksaw]

Oh, get bent Alex. Run to the mods.

[sgtyork]

I’m fine with spreading the word of yet another phony movie from the cesspool that distorts our inherited knowledge of western religion.

[CTrent1564]

Alex:

I don’t think the blogger wrote “8 reasons for Calvinist to go see the movie”. I think he said Catholic and was expressing his views [personal]. I probably will not see the movie as I tend to not go to movies in general.

Now as to whether Alex goes to see Noah or not, well I guess that has been Predestined positively or negatively.

[Zionist Conspirator]

You haven't read the Old Testament
You don't know what Jesus said about Noah
You believe the first eleven chapters of Genesis are allegorical anyway
You're used to having a tortured interpretation substituted for the plain meaning of scripture
It's about "creation care" and "global warming", which fits right in to Catholic Social Teaching
Your bishop's review is quoted favorably in a local marketing blurb
Hey, if Mel Gibson is a Catholic, Russell Crowe must be too!
You've got nothing better to do next Sunday

Yeah; I think that's about right.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed, eh?

Still not an excuse to lash out like a 10 year old who was denied a Shetland pony for his birthday.

[RobbyS]

One does not have to believe that the first part of Genesis is “allegorical” to interpret it differently from the fundamentalists. Whoever wrote it just accepted the cosmology of the time, which is quite different from our own. But the writer(s) had a very different theological view of the Creation than their pagan neighbors. It is the view that we find in the Book of Daniel, that the Most High God directs the course of events.

So what about “evolution,” et al,? At bottom is the assertion of a cosmology very different from that of the ancient pagans, one that takes for granted that blind chance governs all actions. That all appearance of order is an illusion. That nothing exists but what is analogous to what is presented to our senses, things we call “matter.”

[HarleyD]

LOL!!!

Reason number #3

(3) It's great that Hollywood is making big-budget biblically-inspired epic films. This film cost $125 million to produce. It has a stellar cast and fantastic visuals.

That sounds like a great reason. And then Christians wonder why no one believes us.

From Catholic Answers

Dear Catholic Exchange:

My daughter's 6th grade catechist told the class that the Noah's Ark story of the Bible is a “myth.” What is the Catholic belief? I watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel that showed part of what they thought was the Ark. The teacher told her it couldn't be true, because he couldn't have built that big of a boat in those days; it would've taken too long.

Thanks for your response.

Christine Seel

Dear Christine:

The Church has no dogmatic views one way or another. Huge floods were common in ancient Mesopotamia, so the Noah story could well have a basis in fact (see, for instance, the colossal flood) in antiquity.

Nor is the problem of a “world-destroying” flood so problematic if humanity was confined to a fairly small geographical area.

Bottom line: We don't know enough to make very many confident proclamations about how much of the Noah story is to be taken as “scientific fact,” particularly since the author of Genesis had no interest in writing science.

Mark Shea

From our Lord: Mat_24:38-39 For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Luk_3:36 the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

Our Lord seems to take the account of Noah as a scientific fact and Noah even appears in our Lord's (and all of our) lineage. One would hope that that would be good enough.

BTW-I believe this is the same Mark Shea that our Catholic friends here fawn over.