Why Not Noah?  

     Let's back up!

     Maybe we left the Garden of Eden too soon. Does the original sin really matter? 

     The serpent, "craftier than the other wild animals," entered the garden before Adam and Eve conceived their first child. Creation was complete. This was the second beginning...the gift of human life.

     Genesis 3:15: Following their trip-up - believing the serpent rather than God - God lowered the hammer. He told the serpent he would put "enmity (hostility) between you (Satan) and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. He (the Messiah) will crush your head and you will strike his heal." 

     Women would have "pain in childbearing." As for Adam, "cursed is the ground," it will require "painful toil..." If that wasn't rough enough, God added: "...until you return to the ground since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

     And so here we are, friends, on cursed ground, in January 2024. 

     Abram was a routine man for 75 years, without hearing from God that we know of. Why didn't God choose righteous Enoch to be father of the nations? Why not Noah, the only father alive, true to God, after all the hard work he did building God's ark?  

     What we know: God chose one of us, Abram, gave him an awesome promise, and obligations, and waited to see if he would obey.

Next: What Abraham's call meant