why you can get a boat

Everyone butchers the [story of Noah and God's covenant with him].

It just frustrates me.

All my kids' Bibles, on this page, have white out and marker. We have to edit all the kids' Bibles, because Genesis 6 is told this way:

Everyone was bad, except for Noah. He was a good guy, so God saved him…That's not what it says.

The Bible says in Genesis 6 that "everyone was doing evil all the time and Noah found favor…" It's the Hebrew word for "grace," in the eyes of God. And then it says, "Noah was a righteous man who walked with God."

How was Noah saved?

By grace…just like the rest of us.

God looked at the earth and said, "They're all sinners. None of them deserves anything…I'll give grace to that guy." That made him a righteous man, and enabled him to walk with God.

Everyone skips that and they tell the story:

Hey you see Noah? He got a boat…You know why? He was a righteous man. You see the other guys swimming (at least for a little while)? They weren't righteous, and that's what happened when you aren't righteous. You gotta swim for it.

That's not true. That's not the gospel. The gospel is that God takes not just undeserving people, but ill-deserving people and gives them grace.

Don't just read:

Noah was a righteous man. He walked with God and got a boat. Be a righteous man, and you get to walk with God, and you get a boat; his name is Jesus.The truth is:

Noah should have died in the flood. He was a sinner just like everyone else, and he received grace or favor in the eyes of God.

The same thing that God does with us. We should die and go to hell (the proverbial flood), and God gives grace to some.

- Mark Driscoll