Genesis Chp. 6-11

Noah, and Example
Comparisons

The Books of the Genesis I read today, mostly talked about the great flood that destroyed it all, and how Noah and his family were the only ones who were able to survive, as God chose them.

God chose Noah because of his difference from other human beings. He thought of Noah as somewhat more of a ‘good’ human than others.

It is in many ways we can relate Noah—as the ‘chosen one’—to today’s media and either stories of books.

The Harry Potter Series might be a good comparison. Talking about this young wizard who is different among others, the series makes readers understand that him, Harry, is different, or special in a way, because when young, he was the only one able to survive to the Killing Curse—somewhat immortal.

The difference, though, between these situations, is that Noah was saved, was preferred by God as an effect of his own actions; Harry, instead, just happened to be born as the infant Lord Voldemort was supposed to kill—or else he’d die.

Noah was affected for good, he was given life. Harry’s ‘speciality’ gained him harsh teenage years filled with deaths and horrifying events.

Noah’s story is similar to the myth of Aristaeus, the Bee Keeper, because, for both doing what was good and what they were told, they were able to receive a much bigger present at the end; Aristaues was looking for info on where his bees had gone, and rather he got the bees themselves at the end. Noah—once again—different from anybody—was able to live.

Noah’s story could be said to be a representation of general life, for everyone that lives. It depends on how we behave, if a huge wave or flood of misfortune will fall upon us, or rather if we are going to be protected or shielded within an ark of goods, and values.