2:5 Does this mean as some teach that while he was building the ark Noah called upon the ungodly to repent and avoid the flood judgement?
2:5 Does this mean as some teach that while he was building the ark Noah called upon the ungodly to repent and avoid the flood judgement?
No, if Noah had called upon the ungodly to repent and avoid the flood judgement while he was building the ark, he would have been interfering with what was divinely ordained.
Because every living soul on earth at that time except Noah had corrupted themselves, God had ordained that they be destroyed together with the earth and all its inhabitants. God covenanted with Noah that only he and his family would be saved (CP Gen 6:8-22, 14-22 with 1Pe 3:20).
There is no suggestion whatever in any of those scriptures that Noah warned the ungodly of their impending doom and called upon them to repent, while he was building the ark. He only did what God commanded him to do, as Gen 6:22 clearly teaches.
Those who teach that Noah called upon the ungodly to repent and avoid the flood judgement while he was building the ark also use He 11:7 to support their claim (CP He 11:7).
The word condemned here has been construed to mean that Noah vocalised his condemnation of the ungodly while he was building the ark, but that is not what the writer of Hebrews is alluding to at all. It was Noah's faith in building the ark in contrast to the behaviour of the ungodly, that condemned them. It was implicit in what he did; it did not have to be spoken.
Noah certainly preached righteousness to his contemporaries (church historians teach this - ref Josephus Antiquities 1.73-74 and 1 Clement 7.6), but it was before God warned him of the things to come, not after (see also comments on He 11:1).