If God is so good, why did he decide to drown every person and every living thing?

Question

"And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."

He just made a mistake?

Answer 1

The big man was having a bad day!

Answer 2

He did this because these people were EVIL!!! only a few, the people that got to go on Noah's ark, were not evil. These evil people didn't want or love God. God couldn't have that so he had his faithful person Noah build an ark in which the people could be made right again. Noah took his family on the ark and one male and one female of each animal/ creature. God promised with a rainbow which you will still see today that he will never flood the earth again. God didn't make a mistake. He never makes mistakes.

Answer 3

God didn't do anything, at this moment we live in an interglacial period. On other words if the Gulf Stream keeps on sinking, Canada and Norther Europe will be covered by ice again.
On that period the temperature of the planet increase by 5C, the ice melt and there was a flood on low areas. Witness of that flood were the Sphinx in Egypt, anybody that has seen the paws notes the water damage on the dessert?
Noah's Ark on top of Ararat is also a witness.
Religious individual tried to say that their God scored against human race, take them a face value, they don't represent God and the Book that they say is God word was not written by God, was written for some people that wanted to have you afraid and in fear, and don't forget your 10% every Sunday.

Answer 4

Genesis 6:11-13
Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

You probably know the rest of the story about Noah and the ark. No, God didn't make a mistake. He didn't like that the earth was filled with violence.

Genesis 9:11-17
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth." And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth." So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

Answer 5

Your question is very interesting and could be answered in multi-facet way

- If you made something and it did not work the way you like, what would you do?. You will destroy it without petty. For God, we are just something God created for certain purpose, and if we really mess things up, God will destroy us.

- On the other side, It is a lesson for those came after(us) to learn from. This lesson is God is giving us time for us to get back to the right path, yet do not take that for granted, nor we think that we are not destroyable thing.

Finally, God is Just.

Answer 6

http://heavenlydoctrines.org

It should be in the Arcana Coelestia.

591. Verse 7. And Jehovah said, I will destroy man whom I have created from upon the faces of the ground; both man and beast, and creeping thing, and fowl of the heavens; for it repenteth Me that I have made them. "Jehovah said, I will destroy man" signifies that man would extinguish himself; "whom I have created, from upon the faces of the ground" signifies the man of the posterity of the Most Ancient Church; "both man and beast and creeping thing" signifies that whatsoever is of the will would extinguish him; "and fowl of the heavens" is whatever is of the understanding or thought; "for it repenteth Me that I have made them" signifies as before, compassion.

Answer 7

To answer this question we must change our point of view. First, we all accept that human being is considered the most inteligent creature in the universe at least in the world and is acting according to his wills. however, we are not able to fully control even our simplest daily activities such as eating, drinking or thinking. Indeed, for example when we eat something to nourish our body we only consciously do 1% of the necessary actions i.e. we move the spoon to our mouth, we chew the food and swallow it and it descends automatically to our stomach.

Then after? What happens? Thousands of chemical reactions are realised in every millisecond. Obviously, these aren't simple interactions since only a limited amount of them are known exactly. Therefore, if the so known the most intelligent the most conscious creature of the world can control only 1% of its simplest actions who is doing them? Since, these phenomena are very complex and are essential the for the living of every creature, then only Someone who has infinite knowledge and power can organize and do them. So it is The Almighty the Omnipresent God who is doing them.(I do not even mention nature which is an unconscious and inanimate collection of physical laws. It even is the proof of God.)

Then now, that known as : consider your self to have conceived a machine. It's your machine you can modify it as you want it. You can shut down or make it go when you want it. Moreover, you can break it without asking anyone if you want. Similarly, God controls 99.9% of our actions and our body and in fact we belong to Him. So when He wants He gives us life or makes us die. He controls everything as He wants when He wants.

Thanks to Him that he gives us all we need when we need. He is the Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Hope it helped.

Answer 8

We exist to serve God, not Him to serve us.

There is a quote in the book of Job somewhere, but I can't remember it specifically. Basically, it asks why we can't accept what God gives us whether it is in good or bad form. It is still from God.

And don't forget, God is a jealous one. He put man on earth to serve him and all we can ever do is whine, cry, and throw egg at His face.

Answer 9

When a judge gives people the death penalty for breaking the law we call it justice. It's the same with God. These people broke His laws constantly. Ultimately they got God's version of the death penalty. It was the same with Sodem and Gamora.

Answer 10

He saw how wicked the world was and he cleansed it of that evil. He saved the good people through Noah.
The world needed to be baptized and that is the way he did it.