(May 21, 2015 at 11:22 pm)Nope Wrote: It is interesting that as a Christian I could read certain verses without really absorbing their meaning. Now I read the same verses and I'm struck at how cruel they are. For instance, Noah's ark is about genocide and is not a cute story about animals.
Noah's story is an illustration of the First Commandment in action as written in Exodus 34:11-17. It's described as a war story.