{"id":9477,"date":"2024-06-28T03:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T03:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:23","slug":"noah-a-righteous-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9477","title":{"rendered":"NOAH: A RIGHTEOUS MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen 6:9 <i>These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know that I have ever heard a Calvinist truly challenged regarding all the Old Testament references to righteous individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If all humans are totally depraved, steeped in Adam&#8217;s guilt and born into sin, how can the Bible ever describe any human being as being &#8220;righteous&#8221;, &#8220;blameless&#8221;, or &#8220;walking with God&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Noah is clearly described that way.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twice.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he manages to maintain his righteousness even as everyone around him is on the broad path to destruction.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it seems pretty clear that Noah is chosen to be the remnant through the flood because he is righteous. He is not made righteous after being chosen.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gen 7:1 <i>Then the Lord said to Noah, \u201cGo into the ark, you and all your household, <b>for I have seen that you are righteous<\/b> before me in this generation.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Mackie says the Hebrew for righteousness simply describes a &#8220;right relationship&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah had a right relationship with God.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did he manage that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen 6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation. Noah walked with God. I don&#8217;t know that I have ever heard a Calvinist truly challenged regarding all the Old Testament references to righteous individuals. If all humans are totally depraved, steeped in Adam&#8217;s guilt and born into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9478,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}