No. He promised not to flood the earth again. The next clearing process will be with fire. According to scripture, the flood is the equivalent of the earth's baptism. It was cleansed and started fresh. From there, God's children needed to learn obedience and repentance for disobedience. It has been promised that in the last days, when the righteous and wicked are fully grown, remember the parable of the wheat and the tares, that the people will be gathered into safety or destroyed by fire. Then only the righteous will be left to carry on again. Then comes the millenium at the close of which another wicked period will present itself. Then the final battle will take place and wickedness will be banished from the earth forever. The second destruction by fire is the equivalent of receiving the Holy Ghost. All things are symbolic and are a system of repeating patterns. They call them types and shadows. The temporal representing the spiritual.
2006-07-05 11:13:30
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answer #1
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answered by rac 7
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No flooding will ever happen again.. The reason behind the rainbow..ya know.. God's promise to never flood the earth again. But the earth will end with fire... or so it says in the bible.
I think both are equally disturbing.
2006-07-05 18:03:16
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answer #2
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answered by MissT 3
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God promised he would never flood the whole earth again. As long as there is at least one good person on the earth, God will not destroy it. Just like as when he promised Abraham that if there could be found one good man, He would not destroy Sodom or Gomorrah. Unfortunately, Abraham couldn't find one good person. Oops.
2006-07-05 18:05:52
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answer #3
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answered by MornGloryHM 4
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Gotta go with... No
dukalink6000 has it about right-
"No, He said He would never do that again.
I notice there was no ban on burning the bejeesus out of us, though."
1) Rainbows and God's promise
2) He said He'd use a different method to cleanse the earth... purifying fire...
As TY said, still a disturbing thought...
2006-07-05 18:07:23
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answer #4
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answered by Yoda's Duck 6
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No it will be by fire next time:
2Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2Peter 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2006-07-05 18:14:40
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answer #5
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answered by † PRAY † 7
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No because He made a promise not to and gave us a symbol (the rainbow) to remind us of that promise. God always keeps His promises and I don't doubt that He would keep this one too. Also, this would never happen because I know that at least myself and I am sure others will never "stop believing" in Him.
2006-07-05 18:02:52
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answer #6
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answered by followmyleader1 2
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Maybe people should question a belief system where a diety supposedly flooded and killed all life on earth. That behavior sounds very 'satanish' to me.
2006-07-05 18:30:19
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answer #7
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answered by American Spirit 7
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The answer is found in Genesis chapter 8 verses 20-22 and chapter 9: 1-17. From the way you phrased the question (or would he just go on vacation) you either do not care what the truth really is or you have never had any up bringing in the scriptures.
Genesis 8: 20-22
20 ¶ Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease."
(RSV)
Genesis 9: 1-17
1 ¶ And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
5 For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require the life of man.
6 Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.
7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in it."
8 ¶ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,
9 "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you,
10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark.
11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 ¶ And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
13 I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,
15 I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth."
17 God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth." (RSV)
May the reading of His Word be established in every mind and heart of all who read and hear the Word of God.
2006-07-05 18:24:28
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answer #8
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answered by S.R. E 2
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he promised that he would never flood the earth again. old testament genesis9:11
2006-07-05 18:17:04
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answer #9
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answered by Mel G 2
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Would anything be ANY different? Sheesh! And now, I hear there's even a circular argument around god's absenteeism.
2006-07-05 18:02:25
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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