Claim. noah was chosen as the second ancestor of humanity — the “second adam” — and the first father of faith; common Christian usage names abraham the father of faith, but per DP that honor would originally have belonged to Noah and was transferred only because ham’s sin forfeited it.
Elaboration. Per DP §2.1.1, God called Noah ten generations and sixteen hundred biblical years after Adam for the purpose of fulfilling the Will originally intended through Adam. Accordingly, God blessed Noah (“be fruitful and multiply,” Gen 9:1) much as He had earlier blessed Adam — the same blessing-form, signalling Noah’s positional restoration of Adam’s original second-ancestor status.
Noah qualified for this dual role on three grounds: (i) he descended from Seth, who had been raised in abel’s place, so he stood on Abel’s accumulated merit; (ii) he was “a righteous man, blameless in his generation,” walking with God; and (iii) he endured 120 years of derision and mockery while building the ark in absolute obedience to divine instruction. This combination qualified him to make the symbolic offering himself — unlike Adam, who could not.
The “first father of faith” designation is a DP-distinctive claim against mainstream Christian tradition. Romans 4 and Hebrews 11 establish Abraham as the father of faith in Pauline theology; DP reframes this as a transferred title — the mission belonged to Noah but moved to Abraham after Ham’s act broke Noah’s family’s foundation-of-substance. This re-reading is load-bearing for DP’s claim that providence works through structural roles that can shift between persons depending on responsibility.
See also. dp-foundation-age-adam-to-abraham-laid-resurrection-precondition (Ch 5) names the Adam-to-Abraham period; this atomic specifies Noah’s positional role within that period.