Today we will unpack the story of Noah and the ark he builds in preparation for the flood God is bringing upon the earth. This is one of the most famous stories from the Bible, so naturally, everyone has their own ideas about it; many of these ideas come not from scripture itself but are the product of the schools of modernism and postmodernism, historiography, and scientific reason- which are not bad in and of themselves. The world we live in is interwoven with these schools of thought and social movements, so they are inescapable. They constitute the way we think about reality and by extension, the Bible. Okay that’s fine it’s what we were born into. It’s the classic: it’s not our fault but it is our problem. Thankfully, the Bible knows how people are, so it is written to address our shortcomings. We can’t get rid of the presuppositions that make us, but we can allow the Bible to shape them. Intro and outro music Copyright © Holy Transfiguration Monastery, Brookline, MA, used by permission. All rights reserved.