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Genesis 1: Comparing The Book And Movie
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Sin came and took away perfection. With time people in earth were cruel and lack faith, love and kindness was absent. The word of God was being lost. There was only one family of believers left. Everything was so devastated and wrong that God decided to destroy the earth with a flood. In his infinite grace and love God save the believers,Noah family, and two animals of each species, one male and one female. The story of the flood became a famous biblical story and was made into a movie. As a movie how much it follows the bible? As christians is it wrong to watch it?

The movie has many major differences compared to the bible. In my opinion the worst differenc e is
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