All of them?
Is there anything in the story of the Flood that shows God tried to save humanity from their wicked ways? He did not hand down the Laws until Moses. He did not offer a saviour until Christ.
So where is the justice in drowning every man, women, child, and unborn child when God had not provided anyone with instructions on how to live their lives in a way that would be pleasing to the Lord? How could these people avoid evil when God did not teach them what was good in His eyes?
And why was God so quick to judge them, rather than provide them with a way of achieving salvation?
2006-10-09 07:22:48 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I thinks he missed one...
2006-10-09 07:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by 'Cause I'm Blonde 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is so naive and mentally immature to believe that every natural cataclismic event is the direct result of God`s anger.
Tornados, floods, vulcanic eruptions, earthquackes and so on are just the results of our Earth`s biological processes, because it is a pretty much alive and quite active planet.
In the past people used to believe that a huge cosmic dragon devours the sun during an eclipse. Or that every night the sun goes down into Hades, where it strugles with demons until it pops up again the next morning. Etc and etc.
The primitive mind blamed God for just about everything.
"Oh, I didn`t kill them, God made me do it".
Floods, large or small, happen often all over the world. Sometimes a really big one strikes. Imagine some five thousands years back, when a group of people was struck by such watery event. And in their eyes it was all divine. The ones who survived it wrote a story about people`s vain and how God cleansed them with tons of water.
God is not a person sitting on a throne in the skies above watching the people all day long. God is each atom in your body, God is life itself, God is the Love, God is hate, God is consciousness (which we lack so much), God is the universe.
We judge ourselves, because of the conscious mind in us, even in such a primitive level.
2006-10-09 14:38:52 · answer #2 · answered by Ateviel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enough to wipe out the evil that had become so prevalent before the flood.
Now the LORD observed the extent of the people's wickedness, and he saw that all their thoughts were consistently and totally evil.
So the LORD was sorry he had ever made them. It broke his heart. And the LORD said, "I will completely wipe out this human race that I have created. Yes, and I will destroy all the animals and birds, too. I am sorry I ever made them."
Genesis 6:5-7
You say, "God had not provided anyone with instructions on how to live their lives in a way that would be pleasing to the Lord?"
How do you know that? Where you there?
You say, "God so quick to judge them, rather than provide them with a way of achieving salvation?"
You don't know what God provided for them, do you?
2006-10-09 14:27:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Z 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sin entered into the world when Adam and Eve sinned, and since that time people knew right from wrong, like when Cain killed his brother Able, he tried to hide what he had done, people knew right from wrong, God gave them opportunity after opportunity to repent and change their ways, and all the aborted babies you speak of are now in Heaven. See God told moses that all of mankind was evil, so apparently it took a process and from the sounds of it, a very long process for every one on earth to get to that point. The had time, and opportunity to change their ways.
Let me ask you a question where was the justice in Christ dying so horribly the way He did for you, and here you question Him?
Where's the justice in that?
2006-10-09 14:28:49 · answer #4 · answered by JaimeM 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What you have to recognise is that these were different times than today, times that we can´t begin to imagine. Barbaric times and the Angels had mated with women who gave birth to Nephilim which didn´t impress God at all.
There was so much evil and unbelievers about that God chose to destroy them all, except Noah.
God promised to never destroy the earth with water again. He gave us the rainbow as a reminder of his promise.
When it comes down to it, you either believe in God and that he knew what he was doing or you don´t ,simple as that really.
2006-10-09 14:47:00 · answer #5 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question.....I like people that think and use the good brain that God gave us.
God gave us a brain to ask "why" and that is what we should do!
Why do so many people suffer when there is a cure? Why do so many people die of hunger when there is so much food? Why do so many people die in the streets when we have so much money?
Why are so many people pro-life but will vote for the death penalty and carry guns?
Why do so many people vote against same sex marriage for the sanctity of marriage, but then cheat on their spouse?
Why do some people go to church on Sunday and to a clan meeting on Saturday?
2006-10-09 14:32:04 · answer #6 · answered by TurntableKitty 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God was known to man from the beginning, as were his ways, and his requirements for worship and sacrifice.
How do you know he didn't provide them with a way of achieving salvation?
2006-10-09 22:21:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You assume that but God could have closed all wombs for a time period. He could have snatched the souls of those unborn children before any harm came to them. The bible doesn't tell us about pregnant mothers and the flood.
2006-10-09 15:55:39 · answer #8 · answered by James C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is stories like these where you realize the Bible was written by man. Or you realize God is not infinitely perfect and good. Or you realize He doesn't exist. Of course this is hypocritical. The fundamentalist would say God is allowed to kill since He created (which is silly because then my parents could kill me at any age since they are my CREATORS).
I would just say abortion is still murder, God doesn't exist, everyone has the right to life and don't take it away, especially without their permission. And a fetus CANNOT grant permission, no matter how much pro-choicers think they can.
2006-10-09 14:29:10 · answer #9 · answered by surfer2966 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What do you mean "justice"? Justice means giving to each person what they rightfully deserve, what you owe them. God owes us nothing, and there is nothing from Him that we have a right to. Everything He does choose to give us is free, undeserved gift. Therefore nothing God does can be "unjust" to human beings. God has full authority over life and death. When God decides someone should die, there is nothing unjust about that decision. That is precisely why murder is immoral - because it means that a human being forcefully takes upon himself a right which belongs to God alone.
2006-10-09 14:42:51 · answer #10 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God aint Guilty. He never killed those babies or anyone ever. St John 10;10 it is the god of this world{the thief, the destroyer} and no one was ever warned of the flood except One family and the Ark was not built for more humans{only one family to care for all of the Animals, with tons of CAGES} a god cared more for animals than people, and it was not our Father. {Jesus said to religious people , you are of YOUR father, the devil.} God is Love and if He could have killed anyone, it would have been the god of this world{satan} But Love can't kill. simply me , marie
2006-10-09 15:47:43 · answer #11 · answered by Marie S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋