So sayeth the Lord...and Ken Ham.
Friends, after watching the movie Noah last night creationist Ken Ham feels dirty.
According to his blog at Answers in Genesis, Ham takes issue with several details.
It’s as if someone heard the name Noah, and that there was a Flood and an Ark, and then made up a pagan movie about it. I don’t think there is anything else that really has to do with the Bible’s account except some names of people! For example, Methuselah is some sort of witch doctor who can do magical things. There is much more I could say about it—so much more. And what’s with the bizarre fallen angels being living rocks that help Noah?
Anyone who knows the good book knows that Methuselah is only mentioned briefly in one chapter in the Hebrew bible. Hardly a major player. Beyond his age and lineage—we know nothing. Poppycock!
And those angelic rock monsters he speaks of? Where the hell did they come from? (No pun intended.) Utter nonsense!
But wait folks. Do you want to know what really gets Ken Ham’s sacrificial goat?
Ham doesn't like it that Noah wants to kill babies.
Do you really want your family to see a pagan movie that portrays Noah as a psychopath who says that if his daughter-in-law’s baby is a girl then he will kill her as soon as she’s born? And when two girls are born, bloodstained Noah brings a knife down to the head of one of the babies to kill her—and at the last minute doesn’t do it. And then a bit later, Noah says he failed because he didn’t kill the babies. How can we recommend this movie and then speak against abortion?
Killing babies isn’t cool!
And it isn’t true. Didn't happen. Pure Hollywood hype.
According to the infallible book, Noah did not kill any babies. Well, except for all those babies that missed the boat.
Regardless, killing babies isn’t abortion. It’s murder. There are subtle differences between abortion and child murder.
For example, this is murder:
And Moses said unto them…Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. Num. 31:15
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Hos 13:16
And this is abortion:
And Moses said unto them…Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. Num 31:15
Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up. Hos 13:16
Even in biblical times, women could not get a safe abortion. Even those performed by God often resulted in death it seems. A sad fact that lasted well into the 20th century.
Want to know what else Mr. Ham doesn't like?
He doesn't like it that the film portrays Noah as a bloodstained psychopathic that sees “humans as a blight on the planet and wants to rid the world of people.”
This is the blasphemy that makes Ken Ham feel like he “must somehow wash the evil off” himself.
The part that Ken Hamm hates the most is the one detail that is undeniably true.
It bothers Ham that the God of the Old Testament despised the earth and mankind so much that He Himself wanted all of his creation destroyed.
He not only thought humans should be destroyed but He is the one who actually committed the deed. Why be mad at poor Russell Crowe – I mean Noah? Noah was merely an agent of God.
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Gen. 6:5-7
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth. Gen. 13
I haven't seen the movie. I'm not even sure I want to now.
Besides, he said all this disgusting evil was "boring" anyway.