What does Noah, his family and the ark symbolize?
In typology. What does Noah, his family and the ark symbolize? Before saying anything, I will want to reason that typology tries to co-relate events and people in the Old Testament with occurrences (antitypes) in the New Testament. There are several types that appear in the bible and are vividly confirmed by the New Testament, those are sure types, yet there are others that we will find in the OT that are provable in the NT but not spoken of by the bible. In the latter, we need to be very careful as we ascribe meaning because faltering is very easy. With Noah, his family and the ark, though it is commonly interpreted as prefiguring Christ, the faithful remnant or the Church, and the salvation in Christ, I do not find an all-inclusive reference to that in the New Testament except for some aspects. Below is what I could find in the NT: 1. 1 Peter 3:20-21 : Typology of the flood and ark as prefiguring baptism and salvation in Christ. 2. Hebrews 11:7 : Noah’s faith in