[Salvation]

For your discussion.

[Salvation]

Catholic Ping!

[SubMareener]

Don’t forget Enoch who “walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.” Enoch is the “type” of the Church, and “God took him” is the type of the Rapture of the Church.

[MuttTheHoople]

Amateurs built the Ark; professionals built the Titanic.

[Phinneous]

Here’s a Jewish Chassidic teaching for thought:

The word in Hebrew (in Bereishis— Genesis) for “ark” is TEYVAH (’tay-va’) It is a synonym for the word meaning “word.” So when Noah is commanded to “...go into the TEYVAH...” the inner meaning is to go into the WORD of prayer, which protects us from the turbulent waters [of life.]

Further, these turbulent waters are akin to the “many waters” in SoS 8:7...which cannot quench the love...

[boatbums]

Indeed, since the time of the Fathers, Catholics have always seen the epic ark as a type of the Church. Just as the ark was the means by which Noah and his relatives were spared destruction, so also the Church is the instrument by which Christians are saved. The comparison between the two has an explicit biblical foundation in 1 Peter 3, where the apostle writes that the flood itself anticipated the sacrament of baptism.

I would hope that was not the ONLY way they saw it. I think the ark was a clear picture of Jesus Christ, not the "church". The "church" is made up of all the souls that have taken refuge in Christ, who saves us from destruction. We, like Noah and his family, take refuge in Christ as they did the ark. That is what I Peter 3:18-22 tells us:

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits — to those who were disobedient long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand — with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.

They were saved FROM the water, not BY the water. And what saved them, as it does us to this day, is faith - the pledge of a good conscience towards God. Noah believed God and obeyed what He told Him because of that faith and Noah with his family was kept from the total destruction of the rest of the world.

[Star Traveler]

Review by Randall Price ...

Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts