The story of Noah's Arc says that the Christians' God flooded the world for 40 days and nights, killing everything that wasn't on the arc. Doesn't this break the commandment of Thou shall not kill? And doesn't this qualify the Christians' God of mass murdering?
2006-08-30 16:01:52 · 21 answers · asked by Sera B 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Basically, I don't understand it. . . I know God "created" so her can "take away", but am I really the only one who sees this situation as plain and simply wrong?
2006-08-30 17:24:53 · update #1
Please delete the word *Christians* from your question. The concept of *Christianity* did not come about until the birth teachings, death and further preaching of the WORD.
The Commandment "Thou shall not kill (or is it murder) did not come about until the time of Moses, which was thousands of years after the Great Flood. Therefore, the flooding was before and not connected to any religiion, be it Christian or otherwise.
Which means your hypothesis declaring Christianity existed at the time of Naoh is nothing more than a conjecture.
As a Christian I can't even comprehend the concept of Noah being told, "...bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female...(Genesis 6:19). Then Genesis Chapter 7, not even 50 plus/minus words afterwards states "The Lord...said...take ...seven...of every male and its mate...and two of every...male and its mate...(1-3).
God states nothing about "killing" or "murdering". God states, "put an end to all People...(6:13) later in Chapter 7, "...will wipe from the face of the earth every living creature...made" (4).
Think about it: God made man (Adam) first and said oops, made a mistake, let me try again, and he created a woman (Eve).
Think also: Thou shall not kill---does that mean the end of killing animals for food. Murdering the enemy in war time is not qualfied? You be a soldier, the enemy of a dozen combants about to shoot you and your squard of men/women---You, tell your squad, "No mass murdering". Friend, I assure you the enemy, will rob your dead bodies of vaulables and rape your squad women before they are murdered.
The Song of Deborah (Judges 5:31) concludes, "...may all your enemies perish...may they who love [life] be like the sun [and rise] in its strength.
2006-08-30 17:14:26 · answer #1 · answered by fran t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you read the Bible you will find out that Noah's time was before Moses and the Ten Commandments. So' therefoer how was a commandment broken? I pray for you because I would be afraid of asking such a question. Also there was a covenant made between God and Noah the rainbow is a sign of the covenent that the world would never be destroyed again by water.
2006-08-30 16:11:25 · answer #2 · answered by dtech 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noah's ark happened before the Ten Commandments were written. Anyway, God spared Noah, his family, and two of every animal on earth. As for killing everything and everyone else, the world was evil and sinful. A lot more than our present day one.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life.
--- Romans 6:23
2006-08-30 16:07:18 · answer #3 · answered by Oklahoman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God can break his own rules. And technically, he hadn't handed down the Commandments by that point. He was still trying to figure out the wording and had the angels look over the tablets for grammatical errors.
But yes, if the Bible is "unabashedly true", god is not only a DJ, but a psychopath.
2006-08-30 16:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it's one of those cases of "Don't do as I do but Do as I say do". God is God. He makes the rules. The world was wicked back then (much like today, don't you think?) and He was so disgusted by all the sin that He destroyed all the inhabitants of the earth but for a select few. He promises to do this again but not by flood.
2006-08-30 16:11:39 · answer #5 · answered by Calill C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Noah & the Ark happened well before Moses and the 10 Commandments.
God is the creator of everything and He can destroy what He creates, or not.
We are not to sit in judgment of God.
2006-08-30 16:08:25 · answer #6 · answered by gobba55 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup. By the way, Jews and Muslims worship the exact same Deity (albeit with some squabbling over the trinity/unity issue).
They would say that God is above the law -- above human judgment.
If someone can't be judged, he/she can't be declared a murderer, right?
2006-08-30 16:07:38 · answer #7 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those left out of the arc had 120 years to repent, but they had no regard for God. I'd say that God was very patient with them. You probably won't get 120 years to get right with your Maker. Don't put it off.
2006-08-30 16:07:20 · answer #8 · answered by David S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes but those lives returned to wherevthey came from. Oh All gods are God, sheesh. God just teaches different groups of people different lessons and beliefs so that we'll go to war due to different beliefs. And this is all for the allmighty one's entertainment.
2006-08-30 16:06:25 · answer #9 · answered by dudekunle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, God kills all of us eventually (it is called old age). Didn't that occur to you? God is one day going to kill all of us, including you and me.
Didn't you realize that God has the inherent right to "play god" with human lives? Isn't that his job?
God created life, so God has the right to take it back.
2006-08-30 16:08:58 · answer #10 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋