Do you believe that suffocation by drowning is a humane way to sentence someone to death?

Question

Then why follow a god that drowns a whole planet? Is he not powerful enough to teach them rather than drown them? Drowning is an agonizing and extremely frightful way to go. If god merely wanted to start over, why didn’t he? How could anyone follow such a callous deity?

Thanks for the try jim, it was a valiant effort! You’d better rest! :-)

[e-mail] : I believe there are humane ways of sentencing someone to death. Especially if you were a god that wanted to kill off all of your children for misbehaving (another discussion all-together!!!). Why the horrific and frightening death of drowning. Also, the logistics of flooding the earth with more water than the earth possesses is mind-boggling. Why go through all that trouble if they can be blinked out of existence?

Doctrine365: Very nice answer. Though you deviated from the KISS principle and decided to make your answer a personal attack on me. Your second paragraph is a good one and actually merits good credit. You provided some nice info there. However, the question still stands. Why follow someone that kills in a horrific manner. Couldn’t he have ceased their cognitive function? Why create enough water to flood the planet and then get rid of it to reveal the land once again?

Victor ious: Very nice speech, but I see you haven’t gotten to the point in your life where you realize that god should be held to higher standards. Do you really believe that some meager existence that humans have should hold higher standards than the god that we follow? Doesn’t that seem backwards to you?

Answer 1

should we follow another diety? one who forgives?

so now we have to pick the god that does us no harm?

isn't that jesus? except jesus is the same thing as god so jesus flooded the world too,

darn, so close to figureing it all out?!

Answer 2

Drowning ain't too bad. Injection is easier and probably quicker. If a whole lot of the Human Beings on the EARTH, would never follow GOD any more for GOOD and was always doing BAD and getting into EVIL more and more-----murder, rape, stealing etc.( kinda like today!!!!l) then you take out the GOOD PEOPLE and put the BAD PEOPLE out of their MISERY------and the next time GOD is a agonna do it by FIRE not WATER(no more floods, rainbow in the sky after it rains). GOD took out(saved) NOAH and his FAMILY in a great big boat, along with alot of the animals. GOD loves animals too!

Answer 3

I would say that you can only teach those who are willing to listen. The whole concept of free will depends upon that. I also should point out that He offered a way of escape even then to anyone who wanted it- as I recall, they chose to mock and laugh instead. So yes, drowning is awful, but they had no one to blame for that but themselves. The lesson had to be taught, terrible as it was. I don't know why He chose that method of starting over, but I trust Him enough to accept that His reason was a good one. There are things worse than death, and worse than pain. It might be that in the last minutes of life, before facing such a horror, they had a final chance to repent of their evil (as they wouldn't have, if He had simply blasted them out of existence, or if the death they faced were any less horrible).

Answer 4

Teach them instead??? back in those days...ppl were able to see with there own two eyes miracles worked and prophecies fulfilled...and still did not believe....do you think Ted Bundy, as an adult, could have been taught not to kill and then released back into society...you can't teach someone something that they don't want hear or believe....you don't believe in God because you choose not too....but it doesn't make him any less real...you ever heard a parent say, "I brought you into this world....and I'll be the one to take you out?" The flood is the exact same concept....God created and therefore has the RIGHT...to destroy as he sees fit....your mind, or mine, is not capable of comprehending anything close to God's reasoning.....in other words...don't question god and his actions...it's not right.

Answer 5

Why don't you be God since you have it all figured out? God must be an idiot since He doesn't do things the way you think they should be done. You should at least run for office and see how many votes you get for the office of God.

God drowned all of the offspring of the fallen angels who had impregnated the human women so that Jesus would be born 100% human. Had he been born demi-human then we humans could not be saved by His death and propitiation.

Answer 6

Allah the Almighty (GOD) says in quran that the people have given a clear choice of what they want to do, god or bad.
There is no enforcement from Allah the Almighty on people what they do, it is their own choice and will.
Allah the Almighty says in quran 'If we want that all people do only good on the earth, we can do that but they are always under trial. If Allah the Almighty guides us all by his own will and power then trial losses its meaning.
This trial will result in the life hereafter, if there is no result expected there in no need of making heaven and hell.
So my friend everything is connected with eachother. The simple most thing is to bilieve in oneness on Allah the Almighty and obey his commandments and don't worry.

Answer 7

drowning one of the many ways in the past to check to see if a person was a witch if they sunk and drowned then thier soul was safe if they floated then they were condemned and burnt or hanged . There will always be people on this planet who will use religion to bully people into thier way of thinking (not all) thisd is how christianity was invented by romans to create law and order

Answer 8

Your reasoning is off key. You assume God is human and subject to human regulations, rules and ways. Look around you in other countries. Not every country have the same value systems, and to them your ways are wrong. Even person to person without religious dictates, there are loads of people who will disagree as to what is moral, though they may agree on some issues.

God is not a man, never has been. His judgment no matter how cruel you deem it to be, is his and his alone.

If you create something with your hands.., say a piece of artwork, and you are dissatisfied with it - you might destroy it - or you might not, without regard to if it has feelings or not.

With God, he is well aware of feelings, aware of all the differing view points. He's not without compassion as you understand compassion. Again I remind you, God can not be weighed by human standards because he made all there is.

You nor I could stand in his place and please every single human being on this planet nor satisfy every culture's ideas and whims. God does not propose to please everyone. He made his rules, not yours, not mine, and he will do as pleases him, and please whom he wishes if he so wishes.

~FINI~

Answer 9

what about abortion?

He did start over. Man's sin was so bad it the stench reached heaven.

If He is powerful enough to teach them, why hasn't He taught YOU?

You made up your mind about Him. Why agonize?

Answer 10

Who are you talking about ? I think that you should talk to a priest. You seem to be lost in the desert at night and without a light

Answer 11

First of all there is no humane way to sentence someone to death.
But then who said a sentence of death had to be humane to begin with.