“So it isn’t a surprise that a Catholic aren’t bothered if ‘liberties are taken with the story’
The liberties taken are putting words not contained in scripture in Noah and his family’s mouth. The liberties taken are Noah being being proficient in the martial arts and throwing spears at those trying to get onto the ark.
As far as you belittling the Virgin Mary, If I was not such a nice person I would tell you exactly where you can go. But I think you get my drift.
I don't belittle the Virgin Mary, who became just Mary after she gave birth to the Lord, the fantastic, over-the-top depictions given her by the Catholics would grieve her mightily. She was a good Jewish girl who was obedient to God and suffered much as the mother of her Savior. If she could see what has been done to her she would get mad then likely weep for the souls who follow that baloney.
I have to say that I thought the same thing about Catholics not minding liberties being taken with the Bible. A devout Christian might take liberties with a Bible story to create dialogue, etc., but the *spirit* of the story will be of God. What this film has done isn’t of God, and I’m sure the more I knew of it the more troubled I’d be from what I’ve heard already. (cont’d)
The Cathoilic Church takes a lot of liberties with Scripture as well, teaching things that if were taught in Mormonism or by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics would see them for what they are. Only the particular Catholic belief of apostolic authority that’s believed to come from Jesus protects these ideas that contradict the Bible. Many of them have to do with Mary, who is treated as a goddess. There is virtually no attribute given to God that the Catholic Church hasn’t given her. Another would be the two incompatible conceptions of sainthood, with the biblical one taking backseat to the man-made one. Paul talked about wolves who would come into the church, and I believe some of those wolves got control of what became the Roman Catholic Church. As a former lesbian, I say without attacking people in that sin that the sexually perverse (including people committing that sin) seemed to have introduced clever heresies that became accepted and so “sacred” because of priestly authority. (cont’d)
And one more thing to keep in mind: the Catholic Church officially doesn’t believe in historical truth of the stories of Noah, Adam and Eve, etc., only that they tell spiritual truths. This is actually would make the New Testament untrue, among other things, because it speaks historically of Jonah, for example, and lists genealogies for Jesus. And it makes God less than He is.