I want to get my 2 cents in on this Noah movie. Have not seen it yet but will as soon as I can. My issue has nothing to do with the movie. I expected some type of back lash from the church community over this movie. I was not disappointed. There have been several "Christian" reviewers I have read and they range in their reviews from liking it to attributing it to a work of Satan. I think the reviewers that say something to the effect "while it does not adhere to the biblical account it can be a great conversation starter and has some powerful biblical points that can be drawn out" are the ones that have a healthy response to the non-christian world digging into the biblical text for entertainment. Why does the "church" have to respond like this? So negative and attacking and derisive of the unchurched or non christian people using the bible as a source for entertainment?
I remember shortly before becoming a Christian as a young adult a movie came out called the Last Temptation of Christ that had such a tremendous outpouring of hatred and anger come at it from the "church". This movie was not appealing to me and I never watched it until after becoming a Christian and hearing vague criticisms of it from people that had never watched it. Upon watching it I found 2 things. One was that it really was not that horrible and had some very valid positive messages in it despite some very non biblical content. Two was that people in the church attacked me as a Christian for daring to watch it. I could not believe that as a follower of the Christ that is the way, truth and the life, the one that promised that those that seek the truth will find it, I was being told that just watching a movie that may have non biblical content regarding a biblical story was dangerous.
What it appears to me is that the "church" is fearful and believes Jesus' followers are weak minded. So scared of some story or movie - so scared of "magic" and false religions - so scared of so much! The early church and particularly Jesus were not scared of anything. Paul pointed to the idol made out to the unknown god and proclaimed it as the one true God! If we did that today the rest of the church would cry heresy. Paul did not fear the false gods and false religions because he was confident in Jesus and His teachings. A confident follower of Christ would be able to take a movie that was put out by the "heathen" about a biblical story and point out how correct it is in the areas that they get right. Why do we feel compelled to attack in these situations? Why can't we find the common ground and build from there?
My little rant for today! Thank you.
