I've heard different stories. Can someone tell me the truth?
2007-11-19 06:08:12 · 32 answers · asked by ►solo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Neither. He was a Noahide. He followed the 7 basic laws of morality given to him, namely:
1. Do not murder.
2. Do not steal.
3. Do not worship false gods.
4. Do not be sexually immoral.
5. Do not eat a limb removed from a live animal.
6. Do not curse God.
7. Set up courts and bring offenders to justice.
Neither Judaism or Xianity had been established yet, so he couldn't have been either.
Peace
2007-11-19 09:42:08 · answer #1 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first use of the title Jew didn't come up until the prophet Jeremiah's time which was well after the Flood, so he wasn't a Jew.
As far as the technicality of being "Christian" or not, I guess you could say yes and no. He didn't follow Christ chronologically , but he did act very Christlike.
Gen 6:8,9 - “Noah found favor in the eyes of God. . . . Noah was a righteous man. He proved himself faultless among his contemporaries. Noah walked with the true God.” (Genesis 6:8, 9)
2007-11-19 06:26:09 · answer #2 · answered by ldybugg93 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Given the choice of Jew or Christian, I would say Jew, as the Messiah had not yet come at the time of Noah. I don't think either is correct, however.
Noah was before Abraham. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions as we know them stem from Abraham.
(God promised Abraham a son. Muslims follow Ismael, the older son born to a slave. Jews and Christians follow Isaac, the son who was born to Abraham's wife, Sara.)
As the Jewish faith as we know it started with Abraham (even though the same God was being worshipped in some way since the time of Adam), I am not sure that I would call Noah a Jew, but he definitely worshipped the same God as Abraham. If we call Noah a Jew because he follwed the God of Abraham, one can just as easily use the same logic to call Noah a Muslim. Either way, Noah was not a Christian, as the Messiah did not come until much later.
2007-11-19 06:17:14 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew Stewart 5 · 1⤊ 6⤋
A Christian is a follower of Christ. Christ wasn't alive at the time of Noah yet, so he could not have been a Christian.
2007-11-19 06:11:35 · answer #4 · answered by doug 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Noah is a patriarch of the Jews which branched off into Christianity.
2007-11-19 06:11:47 · answer #5 · answered by Giggly Giraffe 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Neither, he obeyed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. (By the by, the first Christians mentioned in the Bible happened in the last part of Acts and they were Jews who believed Jesus was the Christ, or promised Messiah.)
2007-11-19 06:11:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Noah was before Christ, so he would be a JEW!
2007-11-19 13:36:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Noah (who didn't exist,) was neither of these according to the interpretation of scripture.
Judaism wasn't invented until after the Exouds from Egypt, and Christianity wasn't invented for several hundred more years.
2007-11-19 06:15:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Noah was before Christ, so he was a Jew. There were no Christians until after the death and Resurrection of Christ.
2007-11-19 06:11:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
He was neither. He was just a smart man.
Dude got his family together and built a damn fine boat. Loaded that sucker up with some animals and waited out a terrible flood while all the other suckers drowned.
2007-11-19 06:14:39 · answer #10 · answered by loggerbomb1 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋