I was being facetious Major.
Yes of course Noah was saved, but he did not have any concept of the Messiah. He was saved, I suppose, by an act of God specially set aside from the Old and New Covenants. But, my point was that salvation and how one attains it, might be more complex and mysterious than you are making it.
My brother, I want you to think. You personally use a lot of philosophy and articulation with your opinions. Now since you do that try to use that in this situation.
If what you said is true.........."
but he did not have any concept of the Messiah", then the only way would have been if Noah had been instructed in the Levitical system before the flood. Isn't that correct?????
Then if he was, that means that the sacrificial system was in place from the beginning, and only formalized at Mt. Sinai. There are other signs that this was in fact the case. THINK!!!
Genesis 3:7
"And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons."
When Adam and Eve clothed themselves in leaves, they were in effect covering themselves by the works of their hands. In removing these garments and replacing them with animal skins, God showed them that it was by the shedding of innocent blood that they would be “covered” before Him.
Now consider Genesis 3:15.......
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
There is the FIRST promise of a coming Messiah!!!!!
Genesis 4:6-7
"And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him."
When Cain brought an offering of vegetables it was refused. Abel’s sacrifice of the first born of his flock was accepted. God said to Cain,
“Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?”
How could Cain know to do what is right unless he’d been taught? These two events give us clues that the sacrificial system was in effect from the beginning. Ever since the first sin, the model of the Messiah, whose innocent life would be sacrificed to cover us before God, had been taught to mankind.
Now consider Genesis 7:2 and 3....
"Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth."
Do you SEE IT!!!! God had Noah take MORE THAN 2 of each animal species. "Clean and not clean." Literally "even sevens" of every CLEAN beast which means SEVEV PAIRS or three pairs plus one with the extra one being used for a sacrifice later on.
BUT a sacrifice must be pointed to someone doesn't it???? Where is that and why??
Genesis 8:20 gives the answer........
"And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar."
How could Noah know to do what is right unless he’d been taught? Again, these Bible verse point to the idea that the sacrificial was in effect from the beginning and every sacrifice in the Old Test POINTED to the coming messiah.