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To: average joe who wrote (15976)	8/30/2011 5:58:26 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

An excerpt from a children's learning site which beautifully teaches children about Mrs. Noah and her character and role in history. None of that scientific nonsense for these kids--just the GOD'S TRUTH!! "she had never even seen rain" ( 2:5-6)? Nary a Rainbow!! :-) christiananswers.net Mrs. Noah was not a nobody, but rather a real somebody fulfilling her feminine role. She obeyed God by submitting to her husband's leadership. Noah, being a righteous man ( 6:9) would not have abused his position or corrupted it into tyranny. She faithfully helped Noah during several hundred years of farming ( 5:29), up to 120 years of boat-building, more than a year of zoo-keeping (under divine guidance) on an enormous houseboat, then during a few hundred years of farming with a side-line in wine-making ( Genesis 9). She also supported him in his preaching ministry ( 2 Peter 2:5). Nobody without faith could have done what she did. How otherwise could she have backed her husband in building a large ocean-going vessel to escape a flood when she had never even seen rain ( 2:5-6)? Without faith how could she have raised three sons with hammering in her ears as a constant reminder of the coming doom? Without faith how could she have stepped on the Ark and left nearly everything behind? She must have believed that God could and would save them as He had promised. She was probably aware that her husband was destined for a special service to God when she married him. Lamech had named Noah from a word meaning 'rest' because God had revealed to him that this son would bring rest to God's people ( 5:29). Crucial to Mrs. Noah's faith was the fact that her eyes had to be fixed on the world to come after the Flood. She lived and raised her family for more than half her life in a world she knew was doomed for destruction. She had to teach Shem, Ham and Japheth to live differently from their friends and to prepare themselves for this future world. She couldn't allow herself or her family to become too attached to the temporary trappings around them. Close Family She must have fostered a very close family life. They had to be close because they had to move further and further away from the beliefs and practices of the people around them. They also had to prepare for a time when there wouldn't be anyone else. During the long years of working and waiting she and Noah did have the support of believing members of their wider family circle. There was paternal grandfather Lamech (not to be confused with the Lamech of Chapter 4) who died five years before the Flood and was great grandfather of Methuselah (the oldest man who ever lived—969 years) who survived till the year of the Flood. God had mercy on them in their old age and didn't put them through the ordeal. Nor did he put babies or children or adolescents through it; he timed the arrival of offspring to fit in with His sovereign plan. Four married couples went through it—the senior pair to manage and the other three to multiply. There must have been a sense in which Mrs. Noah was free from the bondage of other people's opinions—free to obey God no matter what. She was the only believing female of her generation to board the Ark. There were only three in the next generation—the young women who became her son's wives. Were they brought to faith by her husband's preaching and her prayers? They were to have an absolutely crucial place in human history. From their descendants all the nations of the earth originated ( Genesis 10 and 11). A Woman of Courage What courage and determination she must have possessed to sustain her lonely position; to face the destruction of everything she knew. What spiritual strength would have been necessary to endure the hostility and ridicule. Nothing but sheer steel could have weathered the cries of those drowning. Great grace must have been granted for her to be shut in with seven others and many thousands of animals for more than a year. Only uncommon courage could face what she first viewed from the mountains of Ararat where the Ark lodged: the totally transformed world with its fossil reminders of death and destruction. (yes, you read that right--Solon!) This woman a nobody? She must have been one of the greatest women who ever lived. It matters not that her name wasn't recorded. She impacted the world's history for ever. How did she do it? She did it by being a godly wife and mother. She was married to a 'savior', Noah, who was used of God to save believers from physical death in the Flood and therefore the world's population from extinction. Her oldest son, Shem, was the ancestor of the Jews. From this nation came Jesus, the incarnate Creator and Savior. By His death on the cross He gave salvation from spiritual death to all believers. He is the only One who can save us from everlasting destruction in Hell. He is the only One who can deliver us when our world is destroyed by fire ( 2 Peter 3:7). He has promised to come back and collect His own ( 2 Peter 3:4ff). Author: Gill Middleton. Text supplied by Creation Ministries International. Earlier version published in Creation Ex Nihilo 15(2):22-24, March-May 1993. Used by permission. Edited for ChristianAnswers publication by Paul S. Taylor, Eden Communications. Text Copyright © 2002, Creation Ministries International. Illustrations Copyright © Eden Communications. Mrs. Middleton taught biology at Sydney Teachers' College, and has been involved with Inter-School Christian Fellowship and has taught science and biology at Sydney Girls' High School.

To: average joe who wrote (15976)	8/30/2011 10:50:14 PM
From: Solon	1 Recommendation Respond to of 69300

All the people from the National Association of Science Teachers, and the Academies of Sciences--and all the millions of scientists in the world who keep misleading the public and forcing Evolution in our schools to corrupt the Supreme Authority of the bible are proven stupid and wrong in seconds by the swift forethought of Yahweh! All their stupid experiments and carbon dating and chemistry and physics and biology and genetics ain't worth a hill of beans! Our Mighty Lord destroys all their feeble-minded experiments (so-called) with ONE MIGHTY SENTENCE FROM HIS GOLDEN PEN OF JUSTICE AND OPPOSITION TO GENOCIDE, RAPE, AND SMEARING DUNG ON PEOPLES FACES. Just one simple sentence and EVOLUTION FOLDS! Praise Yahweh!! Colossians 1 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. CASE CLOSED!!