I must admit that I have never looked at Noah's ark in relation to the Church. However it does make a great example (minus a few flaws). "There had been at the time of the deluge only one ark
of Noah, prefiguring the one Church, which ark, having been finished to a
single cubit, had only one pilot and guide, i.e., Noah, and we read that,
outside of this ark, all that subsisted on the earth was destroyed." God provided Noah specific instructions for how Noah was to build the ark, much like how Jesus provided specific instructions to the disciples on the building of the Church. Ultimately we as Christians should be on the ark, following the guide and navigator (Christ). We should be a ship on the horizon providing hope for all those around us.
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I really like this analogy. It's interesting how you point out the similarity between Noah's instructions and the instructions handed to the disciples.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see a research paper written on this. You might even want to look at the similarities found in the way the Tabernacle was constructed.
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