Was Noah insane or a traitor for finishing the Ark?

[Greatest I am]

Was Noah insane or a traitor for finishing the Ark?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah

I have tried to imagine myself as Noah.
The way society works today is that the vast majority decide who within its ranks will live or die.
In the days of Noah, the opposite was given unto Noah.
He, in effect, was given power that would destroy all but himself and 7 others.
He decided to use it by finishing the Ark.
Try along with me here to think like Noah.
Pretend that the miracle working super God of scripture just proved himself real to you. and He is right there in your reality, and whatever you believed before has been overshadowed by the reality of God‘s REAL reality.
Now try to believe that the letter Y on the keyboard is the button of destruction.
Would you push that button at the command of an alien, God of love, who is telling you to do a think of great Evil?
A sin of the Highest Order.
PUSH the Y. Push it now!!! Push!!!!
I think one would be insane to push the Y.
Scripture shows Noah as, arguably, a traitor to his race and species.
Jesus as well.
It also makes God look rather incompetent as a farmer of souls. Only 8 out of millions planted.
Unless the prize was worth it.
What could that prize be?
Do ye not know that ye are Gods?
Is that the prize fellow Gods.


Question.

Would you do what Noah did?

Regards
DL

 

[Smoke]

Unbelievably Messed-Up Bible Stories: Noah's Ark

 

[Gunfingers]

Wasn't Noah's option more "Push Y and everyone but you will be destroyed" or "Don't push Y and everyone will be destroyed"?

Sure, he's not showing much solidarity, but it still seems like an easy decision to make.

 

[Karmartia]

Noah and the Ark are metaphors for your own life. What shall I do, follow a path that leads to derision and scorn, or go along with the crowd, to perdition. It's as simple as that. Ultimately, Noah and his family prevails because they stay true to God, while the rest of the world founders because they reject God. Noah is not without difficulties, but he perserveres to the end, and is delivered. It's a metaphor. Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

If Noah had any principles, he would have not completed the ark, and simply let mankind die out. Particularly, since he saw how horrible the human race was, and it could easily have been surmised that the world would just end up in the same situation again.

 

[Karmartia]

If Noah had any principles, he would have not completed the ark, and simply let mankind die out. Particularly, since he saw how horrible the human race was, and it could easily have been surmised that the world would just end up in the same situation again.

No, you are missing the point. Noah did let mankind die out. Ultimately, he had no choice. All but himself and his kind were worth saving, those that were true to Yahweh. Everyone who did not subscribe to this particular moral and ethical worldview, was wasted. That is the traditional Jewish view in a nutshell.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Wasn't Noah's option more "Push Y and everyone but you will be destroyed" or "Don't push Y and everyone will be destroyed"?

Sure, he's not showing much solidarity, but it still seems like an easy decision to make.

God would not destroy Sodom if a few righteous men were found, maybe he would have held off the flood for the righteous Noah and his family....

(At least Abraham had the guts to haggle with God in order to save lives.)

 

[Charity]

I'm happy that Noah was busy with the animals and kept his fingers off the keyboard.......He had his hands full just shoveling animal feces and listening to the women complain about the rain.......

 

[Smoke]

If Noah had any principles, he would have not completed the ark, and simply let mankind die out.

I'm not sure what the average person would do when face to face with the psychotic rage of a mass murderer. If the psycho says, "I'm going to kill everybody here. Step outside," I think a lot of people would step outside.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm not sure what the average person would do when face to face with the psychotic rage of a mass murderer. If the psycho says, "I'm going to kill everybody here. Step outside," I think a lot of people would step outside.

No doubt. I would as well. However, someone of Noah's quality should've had the foresight and fortitude to see the bigger picture, and do what was right for the long run.

 

[Zardoz]

...
(At least Abraham had the guts to haggle with God in order to save lives.)

Yep, Abraham > Noah

However, Noah did drag his feet, so to speak. It took him 70 years to build the ark. That's a long time to delay the pushing that key.

... That is the traditional Jewish view in a nutshell.

My views don't fit in a nutshell... :areyoucra

 

[no-body]

If Noah had failed we'd all be fish people since God never mentions He has any problem with sea creatures.

 

[Greatest I am]

Wasn't Noah's option more "Push Y and everyone but you will be destroyed" or "Don't push Y and everyone will be destroyed"?

Sure, he's not showing much solidarity, but it still seems like an easy decision to make.

LOL.

Have I got a job for you at end time.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

No, you are missing the point. Noah did let mankind die out. Ultimately, he had no choice. All but himself and his kind were worth saving, those that were true to Yahweh. Everyone who did not subscribe to this particular moral and ethical worldview, was wasted. That is the traditional Jewish view in a nutshell.

The one eyed man in a world of blind people can hardly say that his view of what mankind should be is the right one.

If we are to think that way then get our people the **** away from those real nuclear buttons.

The majority rules for a reason.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

I'm not sure what the average person would do when face to face with the psychotic rage of a mass murderer. If the psycho says, "I'm going to kill everybody here. Step outside," I think a lot of people would step outside.

For evil to grow, even God evil, all good men need do is nothing.

Regards
DL

 

[Greatest I am]

Yep, Abraham > Noah

However, Noah did drag his feet, so to speak. It took him 70 years to build the ark. That's a long time to delay the pushing that key.



:areyoucra

Ya ya.
That is plenty of notice for children and babies to line up.

Regards
DL

 

[Just_me_Mike]

If Noah had any principles, he would have not completed the ark, and simply let mankind die out. Particularly, since he saw how horrible the human race was, and it could easily have been surmised that the world would just end up in the same situation again.

Thanks for the laugh!

 

[Circle_One]

"Was Noah insane, or a traitor for finishing the Ark?"

Neither.

He was merely a copycat. As was God.

You'd think, being a supreme being allows you the power to come up with a more original destruction myth, but alas, aparently not.

 

[Beaudreaux]

Why are those the only 2 choices?

 

[Circle_One]

Why are those the only 2 choices?

I just assumed you could make up your own choice... that's what I did.