Despite Fox News having declared the movie "Noah" anathema, the movie finished the week-end in first place, having grossed $44 million in ticket sales. But rather than abandoning what seems to be a failed meme, Fox is using this inconvenient box office truth to spin the success of the film into more hell and damnation by recruiting an end times Christian to appear on Fox & Friends in order to preach that "Noah" is an example of today's "godless" society and, as such, is a sign that we are on a collision course with the end times. But not to worry, Jesus, whom we all should embrace, is en route. While that is bad enough, what's even worse is that Steve Doocy agrees with him about the godlessness. True story!
Steve Doocy began the "Fight for Faith" segment by establishing the requisite Fox controversy: "History's greatest story is causing a storm of its own." Some video of "Noah" was played while the chyron read "Taking Box Office By Storm, Noah Is Box Office Hit Despite Controversy." (Awwwwww) Doocy reinforced the Fox abetted "controversy" with his comment that "the film opened on Friday and has caused controversy ever since especially among Christians for its deviation from the Bible." (Actually Fox started the controversy a week ago prior to the film's opening.) Elisabeth Hasselbeck introduced their guest, Jeff Kinley, an author who, according to his website, wants to "equip and motivate people to their highest potential." Hasselbeck mentioned his new book about Noah.
To Hasselbeck's question of what he means when he writes that "we are living in the modern times of Noah," Kinley said that when Jesus was asked about the signs of his second coming, he told them "guys it's going to be just as it was in the days of Noah." Kinley then went all end times. He recommended that we compare "characteristics of Noah's generation" to contemporary times.
Doocy, who obviously doesn't understand that this isn't the late Bronze Age, said "sure" and cited some of Kinley's points of similarity: "A godless culture, senseless violence, rampant immorality, falling away from a true faith." And rather than just laugh out loud at this idiocy (Christianity is not under threat in the US, senseless violence has been around for eons, who judges what "immorality" is, and what is the "true faith?), Doocy, in asking Kinley to elaborate, asserted that "there are a lot of examples of godless culture." The chyron stated, as Fox Fact, that the "discrepancies" in the movie "lead people to reach for the Bible." (According to box office figures, they're reaching for their wallets!)
Kinley, in a reference to the complaint about the elimination of the word "God," in "Noah," preached about how "we've shoved God out to the margins [Not on Fox News!] and written him out of his own story as creator." He asserted that the godlessness isn't just in "our country but in the world as well." Hasselbeck wanted to know "if there's still time to make it better." After Kinley cited, as fact, material from the Noah story, he proclaimed that Jesus is the answer and "there's a bright future for anyone who puts their faith in Christ." Doocy said "sure" and noted that despite the controversy, people are talking about Noah. When Kinley encouraged folks to see the movie, Hasselbeck said "great message indeed."
So Fox & Friends says end times are coming because our society is as godless as the movie Noah which is godless because it has written God out of the story. Oh yeah, and you need to accept Jesus to be saved. Great message indeed?
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I just did a quick search at the website “The Unbound Bible” (unbound.biola.edu) to see what might’ve been meant. From what I discovered in the search, Noah is mentioned exactly THREE times in the New Testament: In Hebrews (Chapter 11, verse 7); in 1 Peter (Chapter 3, verse 20); and in 2 Peter (Chapter 2, verse 5). I do know enough about the Bible and the various books of the New Testament to know that Jesus was NOT alive during the writing of any of those books. There’s enough doubt that the author—or authors—of the works even lived while Jesus was engaging in his ministries (and while the author of First and Second Peter claims to be the Apostle, later Saint, most legitimate Bible scholars doubt that the author was the Apostle and the author of Hebrews is completely unknown now, although he—or she—was well-known to the people to whom the Epistle was written) so it’s hardly likely that Jesus himself ever refered to Noah at any point.