Little Coloured Bricks

Genesis 6:11-12
The earth was corrupt before God and filled with crime. God saw the earth, and saw that it was corrupt, for all living beings had perverted their ways on the earth.

If it were you, how will you “paint a picture” of “The Flood”?  The famous Bible story has been numerously portrayed as the “end of the world” or the “future” of the world.  Movies often focus on the repentance aspect, on making you feel guilty and on believing on the hope of life symbolized by Noah’s ark.  Inspiring as it may seem, it takes away the topic at hand – the flood.  With Lego however, a builder came up with something no less than extraordinary.

In the first few chapters of the Book of Genesis, you will read the part where Adam and Eve realized they were naked and they tried to hide from God. Of course God caught them and banished them from paradise, however, if you try to focus on the prior, where Adam and Eve realized something and they tried to hide it, you’ll realize now that the action is just human nature.  That action has become a human trait that was passed on to one person across history to us.  We must understand what Adam and Eve felt then, we wouldn’t want to be caught naked by our parents, much worse, naked in public.

Now, if God went away for a business trip and we were left alone, what will we do?  Stay home and do nothing?  I guess not.  And that was how it was like during the time of the flood.  Let’s say God focused on other matters and when the time came that He went back home to check on His children, what He saw was something too grave that he brought about the flood.  The Bible was a little figurative with its description.  The Lego creation however was literal -in a rather fun way.

The Lego creation captured critical elements that show people doing something against nature.  This includes drinking too much, gambling, fighting or killing each other (whatever reason that may be), cutting down trees, whatever was depicted as wrong between couples (girl-boy and boy-boy) and whatever that man is doing with the Lego sheep.

This is a camera moment you wouldn’t want to be part of, even if you are guilty.  This is like being part of a “you got busted” program.  And we all know what happened next, the flood came and we are alive.