Sadness. That's what I've carried this week after leaving the movie, "Noah", before it ended. (There was more going on with me that just a bad movie, but that's for another post.)
The essential message of the Bible account was lost somewhere between the gigantic stone fallen angels and the evil king, Tubal-Cain, hacking his way into the ark to stow away.
The movie's message was: God wanted to destroy mankind because of its evil behavior and return the earth to the animals because of their purity and innocence. Noah tells his sons that each will in turn bury the elder folk until Japheth alone remains - until he, too, dies.
The Bible account is about three pages (not burdensome to read and study) - and while the moviemaker needed to fill in the gaps to make a two-hour movie, it's difficult to understand how it went so far off track. Had it been billed as a science fiction or action movie, I would not have these issues, but pretending that the movie is a historical account? Let's tell the story that God tells.
God wanted to destroy mankind because of its evil behavior. Genesis 6:6-7
God was sad about this and found a righteous person and his family to save. Genesis 6:8-10
God instructed Noah to build an ark, and brought Noah, his family (including his wife, sons and their wives), and the animals into it. Genesis 7:11-16
God makes the water recede and then blesses Noah and his sons, and places the earth under their authority. Genesis 9:1-2
God makes a covenant with Noah that He will never again destroy the earth with a flood. Genesis 9:12-17
That's good news. We can count this all joy.
