Bible in Time II

http://voqonline.com/blog/2015/05/09/noah-and-the-ark/ Wednesday, January 3 Genesis 8-11 The story of God, Noah, and the Ark has been fascinating to the people of God since the oral the tradition of transmitting the faith. The story continues... The story has it all - broken promises, the sadness of the Creator, redemption, a faithful family, a boat, building, lack of faith, animals 2x2, rain, wind, storms, waiting, wetlands, and dry land, rainbows, and promises. I am constantly reminded of the John Huston epic of the 1966 film called the Bible - the Beginning that covers the first 22 Chapters. It shaped me by the depiction of life in the ark of animals and special effects of the day. Beyond all the Sunday School stories of Noah and the Ark, we have God who is unhappy to the point of wanting to start all over. God finds a faith and remarkable old man and his family to make the land portion of the earth with animals and humans to survive and start over. ...

http://www.ackermarinesurvey.com/noahsark.html Genesis 4-7 We continue in the first part of Genesis with the stories from Creation to the birth of Abraham. Adam and Eve bore two sons, Cain and Abel. God blesses Able sacrifice of the best of his livestock and not Cain who was a farmer. Cain murders Abel in anger and hides the body. God knows what happens but questions Cain; Cain is punished forever to roam; no one is to touch him. What follows is a genealogy of the line of Cain followed by a genealogy of Adam. Note the comparisons. Adam descendants are long life all the way to Noah. People forget God and God decide to try again with Noah's family and the creatures of the sea. The world is flooded and all is destroyed. Noah and his family and animals stock survive in an ark. The rains were for 150 days. Sources: Biblegateway.com