What Is Wrong With These Pictures?
Here are three pictures that some man or woman drew to represent Noah’s ark.
When you look at these pictures of Noah’s ark what do you see that is wrong? How many windows do you see in each picture? If you count them, there are at least 12 windows in each picture.
Now go back and read Genesis 6:14-16 and notice the following things God’s Word said about Noah’s ark:
Made of gopher wood
Rooms in the ark
Pitch within and without
300 cubits long
50 cubits wide
30 cubits high
A window
A door
Lower, second & third stories
Now, how many windows does the Bible say the ark had? One window is all you can get from the Bible and yet the artists in these pictures on this tract have twelve or more windows in each. You may say this is no big deal, it is just a picture of the ark that someone drew. Yes, it is just a picture of the ark that someone drew, however, they did not even take the time to see from God’s Word the description God gave concerning the ark. Men seem to always come up with things not found in the Bible.
Consider the following:
instrumental music in worship, having a pope, taking the Lord’s Supper once or twice per year, women preachers, eighteen-year-old single boys calling themselves elders, the doctrine of once saved always saved, praying through for salvation, saved before baptism, sprinkling for baptism, one church as good as another, men speaking in tongues today, men are born with sin, continual revelation,
and the list could go on and on. Where are these things just mentioned taught in the Bible? They are not taught in the Bible but men and women still believe and teach them.
What is the problem? The problem is that many people approach the Bible as perhaps the artists who drew the pictures of the ark. They may have reasoned, “I am going to draw a picture of the ark. I like lots of light, so I will make many windows so the ark will have lots of light.” Perhaps the artist said, “I feel this is the way the ark looked.” They may have even said, “My Mom, when I was a child, drew pictures of the ark for me and this is how she would draw the ark.” Another artist could have said, “a group of religious leaders met and they decided this is what the ark looked like.”
Why do men not consult the Bible? Suppose someone drew a picture of the ark making it a square, would that be all right? No! The ark was not 300 x 300 x 300. It may seem to be a simple thing to some but why not check the Bible and let God’s Word settle the matter?
There are thousands of different religious groups in the world today. They teach many different and conflicting doctrines. They are like the artist who drew the picture of the ark. They put as many windows in the ark as they choose. It does not seem to bother them that there is no Bible authority for what they teach and practice. They seem to have the same thoughts as the artist who drew Noah’s ark and that is as long as it is pleasing to my eyes it does not have to be accurate. How many windows are in your ark?