As it was in the Days of Noah

Luke 17:26 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 

 There is a new movie released - Noah. If you are a true believer in the Messiah Jesus and therefore in the inerrancy of God's Word (The Bible) then I highly recommend that you DO NOT PROMOTE OR SEE THIS HERETICAL BIBLICAL ACCOUNT.   The same goes for the "Son of God" movie. Here is why...

According to the movie, Noah was an environmentalist. God was to destroy the world because it did not look after the plants and animals. Lamech (Noah's father) and Methuselah (Noah's grandfather) uses magic and other occult practices.

 LIES - The "Watchers" are the protectors and helpers of Noah. They are the heros.

TRUTH - These "Watchers" are the Nephilim, who are the result of fallen angels in the biblical account. Most if not all bible scholars agree on that. They are actually demonoids and not helpful giant men. Like what we see with Thor, Superman, Hercules and other heros.
 TRUTH - Gen 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.
TRUTH - Jude 1:6 You also know that the angels who did not keep within their proper domain but abandoned their own place of residence, he has kept in eternal chains in utter darkness, locked up for the judgment of the great Day.

LIES - Noah was an environmentalist.

TRUTH - The bible does not say anything of the sort. We do know he worked the land and that he was known as a preacher of righteousness.

 LIES - God was to destroy the world because it did not look after the plants and animals.

TRUTH - God wanted to destroy the world because of rebellion and the fact that the Nephilim (fallen angels or demons) had intercourse with women to produce the supernatural giant men.
TRUTH - Gen 6:1-3 When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.So the LORD said, “My spirit will not remain in humankind indefinitely, since they are mortal. They will remain for 120 more years.
 TRUTH - Gen 6:11 The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful. So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.

 LIES - Noah wants to kill his grandchild if it is a boy to prevent humans from populating the earth again. In fact he comes across as an unkind person who hates humanity.

Listen to what Russell Crowe says about his Noah character.

MORE ON THIS LIE - Here is what the Movie script says

"Meanwhile, Noah has himself become a bit psychotic, like an environmentalist or animal rights activist who concludes that people do not deserve to survive because of what they’ve done to the environment and to animals. Noah deduces that God’s only reason for his family on the boat is to shepherd the animals to safety, “and then mankind disappears. It would be a better world.” He concludes that there will be no more births in this family so that when they start over in the new world, they will eventually die out, leaving the animals in a human-less paradise of eco-harmony and peace. As Noah says, “The creatures of the earth, the world itself, shall be safe.” His ethical reasoning? The same as all environmentalist activists: The ends justify the means. “We must weigh those [human] lives against all creation.” Noah Script

TRUTH - Nowhere in scripture does Noah come across as a person intent on neotaticide nor of finding some sort of sadistic pleasure in seeing the mass genocide of the human race (Called Omnicide).  Also, the theme that God wants to wipe out the HUMAN race as HUMANS have spoiled the earth (Environmentalism) is completely against the bibical account.
 TRUTH - Gen 9:1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth."

LIES- Cain and Able appear and befriend Noah

TRUTH - Cain and Abel could not have met Noah. It is a chronological impossibility if one carefully studies the geneology in Genesis.

LIES - God comes across as an angry creator God who wants to completely obliterate ALL humanity or at the very least punish them for eternity (note - NO SALVATION) for harming His animals and plants.

TRUTH - John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

 LIES - King Og is a helper of Noah. He is a good man

TRUTH - Num 21:33 Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.
 TRUTH - King Og of Bashan is an evil King in Scripture. In Scripture, Og lives after the flood and is one of the most powerful Kings of his day. He hated the ancient Israelites and sought to conquer them as they migrated to the land of Canaan, the Promised Land, after being led out of slavery in Egypt. The battle against Og, led by Moses, took place over 1500 years AFTER the flood.

LIES - Methuselah is protrayed as a philosopher and shaman.

See this clip where Anthony Hopkins discusses this and other origins.  He sums up beautifully the overall confused mess of mixing theology with philosopy.


TRUTH - The bible does not go into Methuselah much, only most people know he was the oldest known human ever.  However, Shamanism is definitely NOT of God. It is an ancient form of the occult that has new relevance through things like the New Age, New World Order today.

Here are quotes from the people involved 

“I don’t think it’s a very religious story...I think it’s a great fable that’s part of so many different religions and spiritual practices. I just think it’s a great story that’s never been on film.” - Darren Aronofsky, Director

 “It’s about environmental apocalypse which is the biggest theme, for me, right now for what’s going on on this planet. So I think it’s got these big, big themes that connect with us. Noah was the first environmentalist.” – Darren Aronofsky

Finally another warning.  In these last days we are seeing a resurgence amongst groups such as the Kabalists and even in the political sphere over what are known as the Noatide Laws.  These come out of Rabinnical Judaism (Legal) which is not Messianic Judaism (Centered around Yeshua - Messiah).  Be very very careful about this.

If you are a pastor, do not recommend this to your church. It is heresy.If you want to reinforce that righteous men are evil and evil men (and spirits) are righteous then this is the movie for you.

When I have time I will look at the "Son of God" miniseries and movie.  That is worse for more reasons than heresy.

Another Mormon Smokescreen

Over the last few days, the Mormon Corporation has come out with claims that the idea that Mormons inherit their own planet is pop culture only and has no basis in Mormon scripture.

Some elders have said that the cartoonish idea of exhalted humans having their own planets is not correct.  This push simultaneously appeared across the major world media outlets so was clearly a media drive.

Firstly, it is true that such a concept is not in Mormon scripture.  Those being the Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price plus when convenient, the Holy Bible (KJV).  So who started this so called pop-culture?

Exalted beings will enjoy eternal equality in their high celestial status. "And he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion." (D. & C. 76:95.) "And then shall the angels be crowned with the glory of his might, and the saints shall be filled with his glory, and receive their inheritance and be made equal with him." (D. & C. 88:107.) In other words, they all enjoy exaltation; all live the same kind of life; all exercise the same power, the power of God; all are possessed of the same Spirit, the Spirit of truth; all are gods and have eternal increase; all are joint-heirs with Christ, possessing all things with him, and being inheritors of all that the Father hath.

Apostle Bruce McConkie (Quorum of the Twelve)-

Mormon Doctrine, p.231

Did you ever think of that? It is only in one respect. Each one will be made joint heir of all things in heaven, and upon earth. What more can a person want, if he is made a joint heir of all things; and one revelation says, he that is a faithful and wise steward in time shall inherit all things; consequently they are equal in dominion, and in power, and in might, as the vision states. This don't say that each one shall actually control, and govern, and manage all things; that is a very different thing; just as it is here in temporal things, though each person may be considered as the inheritor of all the properties of the Church; yet when he comes to the management of property, he has only a share, so in heavenly things, a person may have the management of only one world, or of two, or of three; or of as many as there are particles of dust that compose our globe, yet, after all, each can proclaim himself as the inheritor of all things, being a joint heir of the grand universal inheritance

Apostle Orson Pratt (Quorum of the Twelve)-

Journal of Discourses, 2:102

There we have it!  The concept of having their own worlds that they reside over like a god was initiated by the Mormon Corporation itself.  The vision Pratt talks about is from D&C 76.

I note that an eminent professor spoke to CNN in the last few years about each having their own planet.  That page has since been taken down by CNN (Hmmmm).

Regardless of the planet or no planet thing, lets look at this.  "consequently they are equal in dominion, and in power, and in might, as the vision states."  Equal to what exactly?

Let's see what Apostle Bruce McConkie had to say:

Exalted beings will enjoy eternal equality in their high celestial status. "And he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion." (D. & C. 76:95.) "And then shall the angels be crowned with the glory of his might, and the saints shall be filled with his glory, and receive their inheritance and be made equal with him." (D. & C. 88:107.) In other words, they all enjoy exaltation; all live the same kind of life; all exercise the same power, the power of God; all are possessed of the same Spirit, the Spirit of truth; all are gods and have eternal increase; all are joint-heirs with Christ, possessing all things with him, and being inheritors in all that the Father hath.

Apostle Bruce McConkie(Quorum of the Twelve)-

(Mormon Doctrine, p.231)

Though the Father is greater than the Son and takes precedence over him, yet the Son is equal with the Father in the sense that the Father has given all things into the hands of the Son, and that the Son has attained all power, all wisdom, all knowledge, all truth, and the fulness of all of the attributes of godliness. (D&C 93:6-26.) In this same sense, all men who gain exaltation shall "receive their inheritance and be made equal with" the Father and the Son. (D. & C. 88:107; 93:27-34.)

Apostle Bruce McConkie(Quorum of the Twelve)-

[Doctrinal New Testament Commentary, 1: 191]

So Mormons believe that those who are exhalted (the Mormon's highest level of salvation) will attain all power, all wisdom, all knowledge, all truth and the fullness of all of the attributes of godliness.  In other words they become equal to God himself.  The serpent (Satan) said much the same to Eve and look at the result.

A famous Mormon saying is "As man is God was.  As God is, man may become" 

APOSTLE ORSON PRATT AGAIN...

This is a glorious promise, to be joint heirs with the Son of God in the inheritance of all things, even the fullness and glory of the Celestial world, their bodies eventually to become glorified,spiritual bodies of flesh and bones, the same as God the Father.

Apostle Orsen Pratt (Quorum of the Twelve)-

Journal of Discourses 18:293

Now any Mormon reading this will note that I have used as my references Journal of Discourses and the classic Mormon refrerence book - Mormon Doctrine, by Bruce McConkie.  If we accept that these are NOT part of what a mormon calls the Standard Works, that is, "scripture,"  then a mormon can get away with saying that these are just the thoughts of man and not God.  

So not only are exhalted beings going to be equal with God but they will have spiritual bodies just like God -a body of flesh and bones!  As far as heresy goes, those two points of God having a body of flesh and bones and that we will be equal in the fullness of godliness to God, this ranks well up the scale.

The mormon has absolutely no problem writing off their old prophets at will.  (Anyone who is in the Presidency and a member of the Quorum of Twelve is also in Mormon Doctrine a prophet of the Mormon God, by the way.)

So the current Mormon leadership have a convenient excuse to bail out of tricky things.  However, they cannot and should not deny things mentioned in their Standard Works since they are by doctrine the very Words of God.  The Doctrines and Covenants is one such work. And lo and behold - This!

Though the Father is greater than the Son and takes precedence over him, yet the Son is equal with the Father in the sense that the Father has given all things into the hands of the Son, and that the Son has attained all power, all wisdom, all knowledge, all truth, and the fulness of all of the attributes of godliness. (D&C 93:6-26.) In this same sense, all men who gain exaltation shall "receive their inheritance and be made equal with the Father and the Son (D. & C. 88:107; 93:27-34.)".

Apostle Orsen Pratt (Quorum of the Twelve)-

Directly quoting D. & C. 93:6-26; 88:107; 93:6-34.

So who started this idea that they get their own little planet, purely because they will become all that God is?  The Mormons themselves as stated in their works that they believe is the revealled and insire Word of God.

I await a declaration from Mormon Corporate heads to deny that, but no, they want you to focus on their own weird personal planets rubbish.  MORMON POLICY IS TO LIE IF IT ADVANCES THEIR GOD'S KINGDOM.  This is a classic example of the telling of half truths (which is half lies).  A more detailed study on this can be found here and here

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Endnote: The Mormon Corporation has withdrawn McConkie's book - Mormon Doctrine from public sale and is now also not sold through their publishing arm - Deseret Books. No explanation is given. It seems strange that what was once regarded as the most definitive works on Mormon Doctrine from an Apostle should be removed without explanation apart from, "poor sales." However, Sarah Tanner from Utah Light Ministries, (Ex Mormon and who ran a noteworthy Christian ministry that witnesses to mormons.) had this to say..

I believe the main reason McConkie’s “Mormon Doctrine” was taken out of print was due to its candid discussion of LDS doctrines that the church is now trying to hide. Such teachings as God once being a man, his wife–Heavenly Mother, and Jesus being the literal, physical son of God are just a few of the doctrines that are being minimized in current manuals. If the LDS Church felt “Mormon Doctrine” presented a faulty compilation of their doctrines, why haven’t they issued an authorized compendium of their beliefs? Mormons often say to me, “That’s not official doctrine” as though there was some place to look up the official teachings. Where is the official systematic theology of Mormonism?

Sarah Tanner (Utah Light Ministries)

Mormon Matters - The Death of McConkie’s Mormon Doctrine