For years, many readers of the Bible have struggled with the record of Genesis 9 that
describes an occasion where, after coming off the ark, Noah drank wine and became "drunken."
They read of the extraordinary "righteousness" of this man, a righteousness so singular in nature
that, out of all pre-Flood humanity, God preserved only him and his immediate family through
the greatest physical catastrophe ever to affect the earth. Here was a man who walked with God,
a man to whom the Creator spoke directly and personally, but then, this same man seems to
demonstrate that, in reality, he is not very different even from those just destroyed by the Flood.4
"Righteous" Noah became "drunken" and even, in the imagination of some, also became the
object of some kind of lewd behavior on the part of one of his sons. The very words, "righteous"
and "drunken," describe conditions in great contrast to one another. If Noah had become
"drunken," and later became "righteous," the two conditions could have been more easily
reconciled, but to have been "righteous," and then become "drunken," arouses a whole realm of
questions regarding the true character both of the man Noah and the God who called him
"righteous."
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