In early biblical times the world had become a wicked and sinister place. All the people on earth were unholy. All of them except a man named Noah. In Genesis the bible says that Noah was the only righteous man on the earth. It then proceeds to tell us the story of how God told him to make an arc. Noah, his immediate family, and 2 of each animal on the earth, were saved from the flood that God sent down to eliminate the wicked people. I’ve have heard two renditions of minor details about this story from biblical scholars. The first is that the bible was literary saying that of all the people on earth Noah was literally the only good one. That the rest of the earth’s population was living in a way that is not pleasing to God. The other opinion of the story is that it was a metaphorical way of saying that the world wasn’t what God had intended it to be. Noah was not the only righteous person, but was just one of the few that were still serving the lord. Which of these versions do you think is more accurate and why? If everyone around you were doing things that were morally wrong would you conform to their ways or stick up for what you believe in? Why?
