Dennis Prager is a practicing/believing Jew who has taught the Bible (Old Testament) for years. He has some good insights about the Noah story as told in the Bible, Genesis chapters 5 through 8.
Christians will appreciate his points. He says that the story illustrates the fact that the human conscience is just not enough to produce a good world:
"God created man without giving him a Ten Commandments or any other revealed moral instruction. The only moral code was the one God built in to the human being: the conscience. Clearly this was not enough to make a good world. The world sank into evil. This is another biblical lesson that runs entirely counter to a dominant belief of the modern age. The secular world holds that religion and God are morally unnecessary; the individual’s conscience is sufficient to guide moral behavior. The Bible, as usual, knew better."
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