It is a symbol of God’s covenant with mankind, a promise made to Noah and his descendants that never again would a flood destroy the earth. This promise, found in Genesis 9:13-16 , speaks of God ...

Reflecting on the Noahic Covenant: How the rainbow symbolizes God's promise and what it means for humanity today. Discover the biblical significance and the call for repentance in light of divine ...

Noah’s Thanks offering (c.1803) by Joseph Anton Koch. Noah builds an altar to the Lord after being delivered from The Great Flood; God sends the rainbow as a sign of His covenant. Noah, a ...

God makes a covenant with humanity never to destroy the world again. The rainbow is given as a reminder of this covenant. When the ark lands, Noah gets drunk and misbehaves.

And it is then that God leaves his sign of the covenant — the rainbow — as a mark of protection from the destruction of life on the earth (9:16). The Noah story has been depicted by numerous ...

“Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth” was not, as in the film, Noah’s blessing to his children, it was God’s blessing to Noah, and to all of us through Noah and the covenant ...

Ham said the rainbow should not symbolize "freedom, love, pride or the LGBTQ movement," but rather God's covenant with Noah. "Sadly, people ignore what God intended the rainbow to represent and ...

Parshat Noah: The semi-symbolism of the rainbow "I have set My bow in the clouds, and it shall serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth" (Genesis 9:13) Birds ( photo credit ...

Darren Aronofsky’s “Noah” is a midrash, not just a movie. Midrashim are stories about the stories in the Bible. A midrash is not a retelling of the biblical story, but rather a literary ...

It’s not as if God asked him for his opinion or sealed a covenant with Noah. Yet the criticism mounts and though he is ... repeating some version of the line ‘we cannot understand God’s plan ...