All I know is that every good and innocent man, women and children were drowned horribly. And it was clearly not the work of Satan. Should I believe in this cruel god?
2006-08-12 17:55:08 · 21 answers · asked by dhammaisfree 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
absolutley not, he kills way too many people and justifies his actions how? He's god is his answer, and that is like saying to a question of "why this", because I said so.
2006-08-12 17:58:59 · answer #1 · answered by bricabrac 3 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Contrary to what some have written here, there is scientific evidence for a worldwide flood; such as a sediment layer around the world, and sea shells on mountain tops. As far as the reason God killed everyone in the Flood; fallen angels had taken wives of the daughters of men, and produced a hybrid race called Neophilia. Remember Goliath? This was a race of very large, super-beings, who were very evil, being half demon. The Bible says that Noah was perfect in his generations, meaning his DNA line wasn't contaminated. That's the reason God destroyed all life on earth, the DNA lines were contaminated with demons.
2006-08-12 18:17:16 · answer #2 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God said that Noah and his family ( including his sons wives ) were the only good, God worshipping, good-doing people left on earth. It was not cruel, it was wiping the slate clean. When an ugly insect bites you, such as a poisonus spider, and u spot its nest... do you kill the spider and its eggs before it hatches? Is that cruel? Or is it cruel to let them linger around people? .... God also created a covenant between man and God, a promise to never destroy the earth by flood again... the symbol of this is the double-rainbow.
2006-08-12 18:02:21 · answer #3 · answered by decree_of_fallacy 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The " Great" flood, a complete planetary flood as mentioned in the Old Testament, never happens. It's only a local flood between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Bible exaggerates the event.
Anyway I agree with your comment. If a "God" order the flooding of all the planet for the destruction of the world that he create, this "God " shall be in a jail for eternity.
2006-08-12 18:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well You presume to know more than God and you call criminals innocent, so you must be smarter than your creator as you judge him.
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
This JUST God will once again judge the whole earth and if you are not ready, then you too will perish as they did. When you go before a judge, you do not stand in judgment of him, he judges you.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
2006-08-12 18:05:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some say that every nation has a flood story so story from the bible is just another one of those. I say that shows more evidence that it happened because if it really happened it would be remebered by most of the nations of the earth.
Also the others above were right everyone who died was wicked, but lets say that they weren't just for arguments sake. What right do we have to live? God created us and continues to sustane us and if we are not accoplishing what he put us here on earth for then killing us may be a good solution. I mean who says death is the end of our soul.
2006-08-12 18:12:36 · answer #6 · answered by anonomous 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you say they were "good and innocent." The Bible says they were abominable and wretched. They had 120 years to repent while Noah was building the ark, but they were too busy defying the God who created them.
By the way, God didn't kill everybody (if He had, you and I wouldn't be here). He spared Noah and his family, the only people on the face of the earth who were living for God.
A few thousand years later, "this cruel God" sent his only Son to die so that you might have forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
2006-08-12 18:03:53 · answer #7 · answered by David S 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are reacting to a story in a book. These stories are the conjuring's of mankind. Bibles and Korans were writings of ancient times when people thought the world to be flat. God is life itself and not a being sitting in a chair somewhere in a heavenly realm.
Truly in this world there is simply "Good and Evil" "Love and Hate" "Positive and Negative" and surely you will be able to discern the difference between the two. Delve into your own mind and find your own true spirit and not that of your brethren. The only time you will find peace in your life is when you know for sure that you are centered within yourself.
2006-08-12 18:08:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God wiped out everyone because of their wicked ways.
He spared the true believers. Noah and his peeps.
Yes you should believe in God. Even tho His judgement is going to be amazing, He is a just God.
He does not ask for much but for you to believe in Christ, confess of your sins, be baptized for the remission of your sins and to live in a Christ-like way.
If you don't do that or don't believe you'll get what you deserve and you cannot say then that God is cruel because once again He is just.
2006-08-12 18:02:01 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There was no great flood. Science has proven that it was at best a regional flood in the general area of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Every culture seems to have a great flood story. Before Noah, the Sumerians had their flood story about Gilgamesh and its probably a safe bet that's what the Noah story was based on. It was just a morality tale.
2006-08-12 17:58:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
God does not kill. Were you there? No. Don't believe everything you read. Humad nature did that. I think it will give you some piece of mind if you could get the taping of a show that is called "Exodus Undecoded"
There are floods that are happing around the world today. Its not God that is doing that. Mankind will destroy the earth.
2006-08-12 18:37:11 · answer #11 · answered by X-Woman 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋