{ "entry_id": "TSP-ENT-000066", "slug": "ark-noah-s", "url_path": "/types-symbols/ark-noah-s/", "canonical_name": "Ark (Noah's)", "entry_classifications": [ "ANALOGY", "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE" ], "modules": [ "CHRISTOLOGICAL_TYPES", "NARRATIVE_PATTERNS" ], "aliases": [], "legacy_present": true, "legacy_raw_wording_public": false, "senses": [ { "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000103", "label": "First Peter explicitly reuses the Noah flood-and-ark salvation episode when explaining baptismal correspondence; the tex", "classification": "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE", "definition": "First Peter explicitly reuses the Noah flood-and-ark salvation episode when explaining baptismal correspondence; the text makes baptism correspond to the flood/water, not the ark itself equal to Christ.", "not_always": "The legacy ark = Christ equation is not what 1 Peter explicitly states; the inspired correspondence is flood/water to baptism within the Noah salvation episode.", "scope_note": "The legacy ark = Christ equation is not what 1 Peter explicitly states; the inspired correspondence is flood/water to baptism within the Noah salvation episode.", "claims": [ { "claim_id": "TSP-CLM-000103", "statement": "First Peter explicitly reuses the Noah flood-and-ark salvation episode when explaining baptismal correspondence; the text makes baptism correspond to the flood/water, not the ark itself equal to Christ.", "asserted_classifications": [ "NARRATIVE_PATTERN_OR_TYPE_SCENE", "ANALOGY" ], "type_kinds": [], "evidence_grade": 1, "grade_basis": "G1_EXPLICIT_BIBLICAL_INTERPRETATION", "status": "REQUIRES_RECLASSIFICATION", "public_wording_class": "CATEGORY_OR_RECLASSIFICATION_NOTICE", "scope_limitation": "The legacy ark = Christ equation is not what 1 Peter explicitly states; the inspired correspondence is flood/water to baptism within the Noah salvation episode.", "strongest_alternative_explanation": null, "residual_uncertainty": "Full legacy wording remains subject to TSP-S3 unless the S2 statement exactly exhausts it.", "theological_intersections": [ "SOTERIOLOGY" ], "scripture_references": [ { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000205", "osis_start": "1Pet.3.20", "osis_end": "1Pet.3.21", "display_label": "1 Peter 3:20-21", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" }, { "passage_ref_id": "TSP-PAS-000268", "osis_start": "Gen.7.7", "osis_end": "Gen.7.23", "display_label": "Genesis 7:7-23", "versification_system": "ENGLISH_STANDARD" } ], "source_citations": [ { "source_id": "TSP-SRC-000091", "author_editor": null, "title": "Canonical Scripture: S2 high-certainty anchor loci, MT/LXX/NA28 with NET/ESV comparison", "publication_data": "Text loci verified for TSP-S2 high-certainty anchor corpus, 2026-09-20", "locator": "https://classic.net.bible.org/", "verification_level": "V4_QUOTATION_VERIFIED", "source_function": [ "CANONICAL_AUTHORITY", "TEXT_ESTABLISHMENT" ], "locator_targets": [ { "kind": "EXTERNAL_URL", "target": "https://classic.net.bible.org/" } ] } ], "s8_wording_provenance": null } ] }, { "sense_id": "TSP-SNS-000193", "label": "Noah's ark as a traditional Christological refuge analogy", "classification": "ANALOGY", "definition": "Some conservative interpreters compare Noah's ark with Christ as the refuge in which believers are carried safely through divine judgment. 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This is a serious traditional analogy, but 1 Peter 3:20-21 makes baptism/the flood-water correspondence explicit rather than identifying the ark itself as Christ." } ] }