It is not just that it is a movie, “that might not be as literal-minded as they’d like.”
That is a gross understatement.
Listening to people who have seen it, it is clearly meant to turn the teachings of the Bible associated with the flood on its head.
1) It represents God as the “Creator,” which in itself I do not have an issue with. The Founders, in the Declaration, named Him as the Creator...which He is. But when it becomes clear that God in this sense is meant to be the Earth itself, then that is something quite different. Mother Gaia is not God or the Creater, the earth was created by God the Creator for mankind, God’s children. This movie is a progressive effort aimed at changing people’s hearts and minds about the very Being of God.
2) When it reflects the great evils of that day as something different than they were in the Biblical account...this is also very serious. In that day Idol Worship, sexual immorality, perversion, murder, etc. were rampant amongst the entire population according to God. So miuch so that God decided to begin again with a rightous family. This movie makes the great sins of that day out to be, building huge cities, mining the earth in “excess,” and polluting the ground. Basically everything that the rapid environmentalists say we are doing now. In other words, this movie depicts the “earth” of that day’s great sin as being too much like “us.” And that, I believe is its intent.
3) When it portrays Noha’s biggest moral decision assocaited with the whole episode being him, in the end, having to decide whether or not to allow mankind to survive (which was God’s whole purpose in calling him to build the ark), by showing him struggling to decide whether to use a knife to kill his own grandchildren...then the movie clearly goes right over the cliff. Presenting the idea that man is not worthy to live because it will just mess it up again.
Now, in the end, Noah decides to let his grandchildren, and thus mankind, live. But the very idea of it is an affront.
I like Russel Crowe movies. Always have. He’s a good actor. In this movie and there are a lot of neat scenes and compelling acting. But the entire underlying theme is an affront and is also why Christians everywhere are in an uproar about what could have been avery good Biblical movie...but in reality turns out to be an attack on the very teachings of the scriptures.
The Director, who is an avowed atheist, couldn’t help himself. He spilled the beans before the movie ever aired by stating that Noah is the least biblical, biblical movie ever made, which drew all of this attention to it. That admission and comment was a God send IMHO.
In the end, I believe that admission will...and should...cost them tens of millions of dollars at the ticket counter. And, as I say, well it should.
What Genesis 6 says on the subject is:
11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.The only explicit mention of offense is "violence". The types of "corruption" is not further explained. The offense of "idol worship" comes from the Islamic version of the Noah story.12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 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.
Interested in where you found this in the Bible. Genesis 6 reads (Amplified Bible): "The earth was depraved and putrid in God’s sight, and the land was filled with violence (desecration, infringement, outrage, assault, and lust for power)." .
I don't see anything specifically about "Idol Worship, sexual immorality (or) perversion" as such. Murder is covered, to be sure.
You may be conflating the accounts of God's destruction of Sodom with that of the pre-flood period.
If you've got an additional verse, I'd like to see it.
“But when it becomes clear that God in this sense is meant to be the Earth itself, then that is something quite different.”
So Mother Earth was pissed that Noah chopped down all those trees to built his yacht so she flooded the place? Odd.