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NASB | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God. |
Bible Question: thanks hank - please advise what noah was "blameless" for or from; if he was born with the sa,e sin as the rest, is it that he just choose how he would live with the sin, and is THAT what made him blameless? |
Bible Answer: hic: Sorry that I did not get back to you promptly to address your question; esteemed colleague, Kalos, however has given a fine answer, of which you are aware and for which you have expressed your thanks and satisfaction. ...... There is another Old Testament character who is spoken of as being "perfect." His name was Job, and the book that bears his name begins as follows: "There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and eschewed evil" ..... 'Perfect' in this context, as with Noah, is rendered 'blameless' in many modern translations and, of course, a synonym for 'eschewed' is 'shunned.' Job's life could not have been more exemplary. The Book of Job is, in addition to being a world-class literary masterpiece of the first rank, a unique piece of didactic poetry that is not made up from whole cloth, not the product of the poet's invention, but a divinely inspired account of an historical event. ..... Why am I bringing the Book of Job to the spotlight in connection with your question about Noah and the Flood? The two accounts share a commonality in that neither answers all our questions. We don't know everything there is to know about Noah's Flood, and likewise the Book of Job leaves questions unanswered. What can we learn from the Flood and from Job? Many things, but perhaps the most significant of all is the recognition and realization that there is something about divine freedom -- a mystery, if you will -- something which, while not in any manner contradicting God's goodness or sovereignty, remains elusive to man. The Book of Job demonstrates the woeful inadequacy of human reason to account for the suffering of the innocent, and it might also be observed that man comes swiftly to the end of his intellectual tether when he tries to put all the pieces of the Flood account together in a way that affords him perfect understanding of all the details of this colossal historical event. ..... Noah's Flood, the suffering of Job ... do they have a didactic purpose for God's people down through the ages until the present? I believe they do and the purpose is this: To teach man, the rebel since the Fall, to be resigned to an attitude of absolute trust and dependence on a sovereign God, a transcendent God, a good and holy God, whose workings man simply cannot fathom. --Hank |