Please try again later. The American Medical Association classifies obesity as a disease, overriding committees' recommendations that better measurement metrics and research are needed. Editor's Note: This article has been edited from its original version to reflect the American Medical Association's vote on Tuesday.
The LORD told Noah and his family to go into the ark. They were to take seven of every kind of clean animal and a pair of every kind of unclean animal. T he LORD then said to Noah, Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
The New Testament writers recognize the typological connection between flood and eschatology. The salvation of Noah and his family in the ark through the waters of the flood finds its antitypical counterpart in New Testament eschatological salvation connected with water baptism ( 1 Peter 3:18-22).