If God so loved the world. Why did he drown almost everything on it?

Answer 1

Because the people were so wicked back then. He promised never to do this again.

Answer 2

God gave the world a covenant; he promised that he would reconcile the rift between God and Man through Christ. From here, that's the Loving God. However, God is a judge too. Those who did not seek refuge in the covenant would face God's only judgement for sin: death. Those in the flood all chose to reject his covenant (which in the Old Testament was satisfied to hold back God's judgement with atonement sacrifices symbolic of the coming fulfillment of the above said covenant. ) If he didn't drown them, God would be contradicting himself. To not contradict himself, he made a covenant letting the world choose bliss with him or death. In the end, people chose death through sin and God sadly flooded them. Fortunately, he spared those that were faithful... way to go, Noah.

i know it's seems confusing and definately contradictory but you have to look at God as a whole figure. Not just the nice fatherly part of Him.

Answer 3

You, nor I, could ever possibly understand or comprehend what God even is, much less why such horrible natural disasters occur. God's "love" is Divine love & is quite different from the human definition & experience of love. How is it different? It is not for us to know or understand. We are, after all, mere mortal humans.

IMO- I believe that God is so beyond human consciousness & "perfect" that perhaps no division between "good" and "evil" is necessary. Maybe death isn't so bad, maybe it's us who's suffering here on earth. Maybe those people (lets say they did exist & its not a myth) weren't really "punished" by dying in the flood. Maybe its the people who remained on Earth that were punished. We have to keep our minds open.

The Bible should not be the only source. It's not that simple, it's not all layed out in a Book!!! We don't have it all figured out & how dare us to claim to!!! Are we God? How can we say!

Answer 4

There is something important to consider about evil: it is oppressive by nature. God likes to be permissive, and let things go because he knows that you can't make people believe in the power of love by force. If it is like the Bible says, because the thoughts of men were always wicked constantly, then what hope did God have to convice mankind that he had created everyone to love?

How easy is it for the people who keep getting robbed and seeing family killed and getting beat up for no reason and who live in constant fear to believe that love exists or ever existed anywhere? The fact is, it was over. God saw everything he had created in perfection go to destruction, and the only hope to restore some of its former perfection was to start over from scratch.

I hope this sheds some light on your search for understanding.

If your question is more about "How could a loving God ever punish people, like sending them to Hell?" then I suggest you read the chapter that directly addresses that question in Lee Strobel's "The Case for Faith." I like his books a lot because he doesn't hold back, but asks the hardest questions of faith.

Answer 5

Heres what I believe:
I think god made us and put us into this world, some face murder, others cancer etc, he gives us what i guess you can call a "test", each of us is different , not just through personality and appearence, but through what we go through in life, no one can understand what you have been through because they never experienced what you have. Yes maybe 2 boys's grandfathers died, but they dont feel the same way, Bill(one of the 2boys whos grandfatbhers died) is saying"imiss my grandfather he was so funny and creative. while the other would say"i miss my grand father because he went everywhere with me", so really they dont feel the same way at all, so saying "i know how you feel" really isnt right. Saying that, i think that each and every one of us has a series of events that are planned out by god, though we dont know what they are, and that we have to face them, god made the terrist attack because maybe he felt america needed a time to come together ands realize how rit i to stick together as a country, or maybe because he wanted america to realize other countries hate us, and showing that this is not it, and thaT They hate us, alot*.I know its all weird, i believe in god and am catholic but when it comes to the question "if god is real/loving us then why does he kill people,have cancer..etc.,etc/etc.", well i truly think god gave good things and bad things to the world, and that its up to us as a country,as the world to stop the promblems,and maker the good things useful.Like example global warming?, maybe god is letting us know we should be curtious and realize we can walk to places,like a near by park or school, and not drive out hummers, also because maybe to show that their is alot of pollutents in the air. These things arent nothing people, there the real deal and god cant fix it, its up to us.
love/dee

Answer 6

God love the world comes from the text in John 3:!6 and the rest of your question deals with the Flood in Noah's day. The similarity between the two is that Judgment fell and there was a way to escape that Judgment. In Noah's day God's just judgment upon sin fell and the path to escape was the ark and through Noah. Noah was faithful to God and although God loves all he is Just and his Judgment is just. In John 3:16 God's ultimate judgment upon sin is death and eternal death/punishment. The path of escape however is not the ark but belief and acceptance in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross and protection by his shed Blood as God requires a blood sacrifice to atone for sin. God loves the sinner and provides a way of escape and protection, that is Love. God's judgment upon sin has been there and is just and failure to accept that protection is no reflection upon God's love.

Answer 7

Because the sons of God joined with the daughters of men, creating a race of giants refered to as the nephilum. basically, the angels that rebelled in heaven went outside their nature and took human women sexually and had offspring that were a mix. That wasn't in line with Gods plan. It was Satan's foolish plan to destroy all that God had done. Noah and his family were the remnant that had not given themselves over to these. Do you know it took Noah several hundred years to build the ark? So it wasn't like this happened overnight. Those fallen angels have been bound and await judgment in the blackness of darkness today. The earth needed to be cleansed of this half man/angel race because they were unrighteous or that is to say, they did not have a right standing with God, Noah was righteous or did have a right standing with God.

Answer 8

No one on Earth is God and can tell you the exact answer to this question. But people can give you their opinion. I've been given the idea that, at the beginning when God put forth life on Earth, he had very good intentions, but his humankind were given free choice or free will and Evil was also in the picture at the time and tempted mankind into following his more crude animal instincts, instead of the laws God set forth. So after mankind was seen to be weak in spirit on his own, God decided to punish mankind and called upon his most faithful to retreat to a large boat / ark and then sent floods to cover the Earth. After the flood receded, mankind then was given another chance to follow the written laws of God. But again, mankind was tempted by Evil on the Earth. So God then later sent his son to Earth to finally teach mankind to repent, and learn to how to have Eternal Life. But again, mankind has been tempted by Earthly Evil. We have gone through, over hundreds of years -- countless Wars, Dictators, Hate, Injustices, Greed, Hunger. The world has been tugging back and forth the different ideas of what true religion really is. We humans are still---at War ---in the middle east -- over religion. It will take a cataclysmic revelation of huge proportions for humans to understand why we exists here on Earth. So it is up to humans to study as much as possible to decide on what the true spirit of mankind really is. Some day God will return to Earth and judge all mankind and some of humankind will naively walk roads to the false truth and parish forever. It is very difficult to discus the truth of faith, it takes a life time of study to learn to save ones soul.

Answer 9

He did that to save the few righteous people that were actually doing His will. God had Noah and his family preach to the masses and they made fun of them. At the time, it didn't rain, but a mist came up from the ground (much like the dew does today), hence the fact that the masses thought that Noah and his family were losing their minds.

Answer 10

God does love the whole world, but He tells us that, He hates all sin, He always gives mankind a choice to choose between good and evil, and He always prepares someone to fore warn us of what sin is, and to a make us all aware of the penalties of our sins. sending His Holy Word to give us, for reproof and correction, and to give us His guidance. Back in the days of Noah(Genesis 6:5-22) God told Noah to build an ark of safety, and preach to the people who were basically rebelling against God, and doing some of the same sins people are doing today please see (Gen. 6:11,12,13). (warning always comes before destruction). God never destroys any people, without first giving them warnings and a time, and space to repent, (He tells us to change,and turn from our wicked ways,and seek His guidance and do His will). and we will live, and be blessed, or we can continue in sin, and find that God will destroy sin, regardless to who its in. and remember the flood, because We make our own choices today, even as people did in the days of Noah. We have laws and penalties in our land today, and if we break them, we can expect to suffer the consequences of our decision.

Answer 11

You can ask me or the next person and you probably will get one answer from Christians (me) and another from everyone else. Nevertheless, in answer to your question, I would refer you to read your Bible. It is sooo much easier to read it and understand it in this manner than to have a bunch of strangers giving you their opinions.

If I told you that God did it for mankinds own good, would you believe me? This is why in all scincerity you need to read the book. Once you start reading it, you will see that it is not boring as you think. There are true stories of harlots, witch craft, blasphemers, whoremongers, fornicators, etc and redemption.