If God is almighty and has the power to be in each of our lives individually, why did He get mad and wipe out the whole planet instead of dealing with each individual, especially babies who were not old enough to be judged as such?
I ask because I hear so much talk about how God loves Children, even the unborn. Killing every last baby and child on the planet just doesn't seem to fit in with this idea, does it?
Some will say it was the responsibility of the parents to determine the fate of their children, but using this reasoning, wouldn't an aborted baby just deserve to die then because of the mother?
2006-08-24 02:03:14 · 23 answers · asked by eat 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is a very good question.
Supposedly god is sovriegn, and thus being he knew that every person on the earth (including babies, born and unborn) were going to grow up and be sinful and never make it into heaven, so he wiped them all out and started over with a clean slate.
2006-08-24 02:05:54 · answer #1 · answered by m_thurson 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
The entire population was corrupt at that time. There were no good people. In fact God original plan was to wipe out everyone but because of Noah's faithfulness to him he decided to spare him and his family. If God would have spared the babies and the unborn babies who would have taken care of them? Would he not had to spare their mothers who were as the Bible says full of wickedness? In a sense God did spare the babies and the unborn because the were below the age of accountability( in the old testament times it was 20) and taken directly to heaven. That is a much better fate then living here on earth if your a believer. I'm sure if you could question those babies they would say they wouldn't change a thing in the way things happened.
2006-08-24 02:14:02 · answer #2 · answered by firefly 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't change, but basically he was so heartbroken by our behaviour and sinfullness that he thought it would be better to start again, and it should be known that we are judged by God based on our knowledge of him, so a child that is not aware of God or right and wrong will not be judged as being sinful, God knows everyones heart (underlined) and judges you based on this. Therefore, the stillborn and babies, children etc, do not go to hell, but heaven.
He also promised that he would never do that again- that is why Jesus came to Earth, because it was the only way for us to have a relationship with him and experience eternal life.
Read the story and try to keep an open mind about why it is written in the Bible- then you can gain your own understanding, which is so much more valuable than mine given to you.
All the best
2006-08-24 02:13:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When God cleans house He does a complete job. In His mercy He spared Noah and his family or the human race would have come to an end. Instead of focusing on babies, take a look at the big picture because Judgment is coming again. The Ark this time is a spiritual Ark, Jesus Christ. Where will YOU be when the fires of judgment hit this planet and God cleans house again?
2006-08-24 02:30:22 · answer #4 · answered by novalee 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just because God loves us, doesn't mean he won't punish the ones who disobey Him. It is like any parent punishing their children who disobey. I know we don't go the the extreme of wiping out the population, but The Bible says, in Noah's day, he was the only man who still talked to God and did right in God's eye.
Genesis 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.
Genesis 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Genesis 6:7 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.
Genesis 6:8 But noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Genesis 6:9 These are the generations of noah: noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and noah walked with God
Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
Genesis 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Now we have Jesus as a mediator between us and God. Then the people had to make a sacrifice of animals for the remission of their sins. Jesus is our sacrifice. Otherwise, I don't believe the world would have gone on this long with all the abundant sin around us.
1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
2006-08-24 02:18:44 · answer #5 · answered by pipi08_2000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If a child die young or unborn I believe that it goes to heaven because they couldn't have sinned. So I'll argue that dieing and going to Heaven would be much better then living longer and then becoming like your parents who sinned and brought on the flood. Because when you did die you'd go to Hell. God is a just god. He knows what He's doing. How can man argue with him?
2006-08-24 02:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by Dallas L 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Another Question to ask is, Did God Really Flood the entire earth or only right where Noah was??? Because back then they thought the earth was round...so any kind of flood that happened would to them..be the entire earth.
2006-08-24 02:09:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
An excellent question. And why did he kill the first born babies of the Egyptians in Exodus, instead of the Pharoh Rames, and the babies in Sodom and Gommorah? The real answer is as always, it was not God who did it, it was people, and they wrote it into the scriptures that way to justify it.
If you really want to reduce the epidemic abortion rate, you have to go after the number one cause of abortion.
The number one cause of abortion, is, was, and always will be the stigma on unwed mothers from the religious right. They even admit it.
2006-08-24 02:14:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because the God of the Old Testament was an evil, vengeful God. Jesus rejected the existence of that very God. He taught that God was not evil & vengeful, but God loves.
Only an evil, vengeful God would preprogram his subjects with original sin and then punish them for the very sin he created!?! What's up with that?
God finally took the life of his own son to redeem himself for the sins of his creation. Just drowning everyone in the flood didn't fix God's misguided creation. The latter event (Jesus' crucifixion) was required to set things straight.
Human sacrifice by crucifixion still seems kinda' evil, though, even if it was for a "good" purpose (God's apology for his mistakes).
2006-08-24 02:11:12 · answer #9 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
You make a good point, and once again we see that logic cannot be applied to religion. This doesn't even address the fact that this loving god would allow innocent children to be afflicted with terminal diseases or to be born to abusive parents. And, remember, the Old Testament god is a pretty spiteful, cruel guy.
2006-08-24 02:12:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋