Noah's Role in the Bible and in the Koran
Christianity and Islam are to very closely related religions, and they share the same origins, and some of the same history. The Koran and the Old Testament of the Bible are very closely related, in that many of the stories share the same points and characters. One of the overlapping stories is the story of the Flood. Although the main point or objective of the story is the same the means that each book gets there by is very different. Although in both Koran and in the Bible, Noah is the messenger to God, he plays opposing roles in each of the stories. The outcome of both though is the same.
In the Bible, God speaks to Noah, saying many times over that the world that he created has become corrupt. The men and women that he had created were filled with "wickedness". For this reason he wanted to destroy all that he had created, anything that was living he wanted dead, may that be men, women, animals, or plants; he wanted nothing......
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