**Noah was accepted by God long before the Flood!**
I guess he didn’t need to BUILD the ark after all since he was saved before the flood.
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, PREPARED an ark to the SAVING of his house.....”. Heb. 11:7
Since we’re in Hebrews:
“By faith Abraham, when he was called to GO OUT into a place.......OBEYED..” 11:8
“I guess he didn’t need to BUILD the ark after all since he was saved before the flood.”
Noah was approved by God prior to the Flood. He was already right with God:
“Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.”
That sure sound like approval to me, before the Flood and before the Ark was built.
So what did the Flood do? Hmmmm? In what sense did the Flood ‘save’ Noah?
Well, it separated him from the evil generation he was in - which is what water baptism does for us. Sanctification, not justification. Important, but it does not make us right with God. God does that prior to water baptism.