Noah's Ark: A Snoozer
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Author: Doug Sharp |
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I only caught a few snippets of the Noah's Ark miniseries, but what I saw of it seemed to be rather boring. I got tired of it and turned it off only after a few minutes. I saw the scene after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (do these guys even OWN a Bible?) where a peddler made the comment upon hearing the news "Oh it's some religious thing, isn't it?" Even if there were an attempt at biblical accuracy, the wooden and stilted acting would have turned me off. So I turned it off.
A little while later, I turned it back on again. Noah's sons were preening themselves to go out and seduce a few girls. Turned it back off.
Next day I turned it back on again. Noah was having some strange conversation with the voice of God coming from the moon. Then Noah went into a frenzied, crazed dance. Somehow, that pleased the god-voice. Turned it off again.
For those of us who had hoped that NBC was at last paying attention to the desires of Christians who would once in a while like to see the Bible played and portrayed as the Book of Books, this miniseries is again a terrible disappointment. When will the media get the message that a significant number of their viewers get tired of seeing the Bible portrayed in such an inaccurate and misleading light? If they were trying to go out of their way to offend Bible-believing Christians, they couldn't have done a better job. Some of my friends who held their nose and sat through the whole thing said that I didn't miss much.
In contrast, it would have been much better to see the history of Noah and his time, Adam and Eve, the ages of the patriarchs, races of giants, ancient technology, dinosaurs growing to be 900 years old, and sin abounding. At that point, show why God was justified in his decision to destroy all life on the earth and start anew. That might have caught my interest.
I would have liked to see the earth split apart, subterranean water spewing forth into the atmosphere and the earth destroyed violently. I would have liked to see how Noah cared for all the animals, much in the manner that John Woodmorappe speculates. That would have been interesting, too.
But instead, we have another mockery of the Bible produced by those whose bigotry against Christians, the church, the Bible, and truth shows through their "poetic license" as they call it. The story of Noah and the ark has plenty to say to modern man, if it is presented in a straightforward manner. It would have been a much more dramatic and interesting presentation if it had been.
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