Noah, the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, starring Russell Crowe, is set to open next week. If you’re a believer, and hoping to find it true to scripture, you should probably just stay home and re-read the Book.
 
According the reviews and interviews I’ve encountered, the film badly misses the main point of the story (mankind was so thoroughly wicked that God decided He would start over with the only faithful man left on the planet) and replaces it with radical environmentalist propaganda.
 
In this neo-Noah fantasy, human actions have ruined the earth. Aside from flatly contradicting the Bible, this version of the story isn’t even logical. Considering the fact that the world was sparsely settled by agrarian societies at the time of Noah, the human impact on the planet would have been so limited as to be completely irrelevant. But hey – it’s Hollywood. Creative license and all that…
 
 
Just to be clear on how un-Biblical Aronofsky’s take is, here’s the original scripture ~
 

Genesis 6:5-14 ~
 
Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
 
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japeth.
The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
 
 
And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gopherwood; make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.”

 
Not quite sure how you avoid that whole “corrupt” thing. It’s pretty much the entire reason God brought the flood…
 
Dennis Prager has an interesting article about the tale of Noah and the lessons it affords ~ Noah: One of the Most Moral Stories Ever Told. He believes there are at least four crucial messages in the story:
 
• If evil becomes widespread enough, there is no longer a purpose to human existence.
 
• God values goodness more than any other human trait. [Thus, the only reason Noah was saved was that “Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9). This alone renders the Biblical story unique among the flood stories of the ancient world. In those stories, a very common reason the gods saved a man was that the gods found him physically, not morally, exceptional.]
 
• God hates evil. And so should we.
 
• Divine revelation is a moral necessity. [Man’s conscience isn’t enough to define “goodness.” After the evil that led to the flood, God decided to reveal basic moral rules – most importantly, the 10 Commandments.]
 

What Aronofsky and Crowe are peddling is extremist enviro-hype about human-caused climate change. It’s aimed at forcing us to de-industrialize and go back to the horse and buggy days (without the horses though – too much methane!) in a pointless effort to save the planet.
 
Other than the name, all neo-Noah has in common with the real deal are an ark, a flood and some animals.
 
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Related:
Noah Set to Flip the Biblical Script ~

Beyond artistic license, (Aronofsky) seems to have defiled the story’s essence. Imagine a film about the terrorist attacks of 9/11 which portrayed the hijackers as Hindu, and you understand the difference between artistic license and fraud.

 
Fatwa issued against Russell Crowe’s new £75million blockbuster Noah as three Arab countries ban it for ‘violating Islamic law’ ~ Uh-oh. The Islamists aren’t happy with the film either!
 
Answers-in-Genesis and Ray Comfort (Living Waters) on the real Noah ~

… this upcoming Noah film with star Russell Crowe is highly anti-biblical, and it also makes an absolute mockery of a great man of God.

Comfort’s new docu-movie ➡
is available to counter neo-Noah with the Truth: Noah and the Last Days
 
The Green Agenda Sinks Noah ~ An interesting radio broadcast from “Understanding the Times” at Olive Tree Ministries discusses the movie and its anti-scriptural message.