gen 6:5-8 "it repenteth the lord that he made the earth" i will destroy man" "both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air" "it repenteth me that i made them"
what did the animals do to it? to offend it so much?
2006-10-13 15:54:47 · 12 answers · asked by lnfrared Loaf 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i knew this story was about the ark.
2006-10-13 16:06:39 · update #1
if it was all powerful then it could have just done the passover ritual and save the rest of life, even if he knew that noah and his sons will bear evil people, he still killed the others. utterly failed to wipe the earth clean of evil
2006-10-13 16:09:19 · update #2
i know it was rude of me to call it an it...er.. him.
2006-10-13 16:19:17 · update #3
It was primative bronze age mentality making up myths to explain what they could not understand. If god is perfect why would he repent? If god was going to start fresh, he should have done so. If Noah was a descendent of Adam and Eve then he too would carry "original sin" and continue the pattern god despised. This story, as most things in the bible, is contradictory and circular.
This is not the supposed creators only failure. The bible says that god does not tempt man...then why was the "evil" tree of knowledge in the garden? He allowed sin to enter the world. If he is omnipotent, did he really not know the snake was spreading his game around? How many Jews sacrificed animals to "cleanse" themselves of sin without the promised results? How many nations were wiped out due to 'gods' command? The bible is a load of crap. The greatest lie ever sold. Well written atrocities with a built in safety net for convenience and continuance.
2006-10-13 16:24:40 · answer #1 · answered by Medusa 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Think for a moment how even the creeping things and the insects were changed when sin entered. The bible tells us the lion will eat straw like the lamb, (In the new earth) So lions once ate straw in the garden of eden. There was no death in the garden so we know that to be true. Spiders didn't kill other bugs, and mosquitoes didn't suck blood, snakes didn't squeeze the life out of their prey, so all those changes came about after the fall to sin and it was that change that made God repent having created all those creatures that had deteriorated to that point of appearing disgusting to God. Sin had so terribly corrupted his perfect creation it caused him great distress. Just before that in verse 4 - 5 there is mention of giants and sons of God, I have heard it suggested that those were fallen angels that took human wives and they were in part responsible for the corruption of all mankind.
But notice that Noah was one who had the character that God was seeking in his creation and so for his sake the ark was ordered and the animals were sent to the ark to be saved. Now why God didn't let the mosquitoes go the way of the dinosaurs is beyond me, they must have hitched a ride on one of the buffalo. Some of the animals may have split off into other genus as well, there wouldn't have needed to be two of every kind of cat we know today, only a few pairs of different cats. Cats have been altered by human crossbreeding so it is highly possible they did so on their own after the ark landed. Same for dogs and birds, etc.
Since God was repenting for all that became polluted he must have decided the creatures we don't like were necessary to maintain some sort of balance here on the earth. Lions eat the zebra so they don't overpopulate. Birds eat bugs, snakes eat frogs and bugs, and as morbid as this may sound the bugs and germs that cause us illness have prevented mankind from overpopulating the world to the point there is not enough food for any of us.
That is my take on it but I am certainly no college educated expert it is just bits and pieces of info I have picked up over the last forty years.
2006-10-13 23:27:12 · answer #2 · answered by mindbender - seeker of truth 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I never really got that. Also never really understood why every living being (men, women, children, animals, etc.) had to burn in Sodem and Gomorrah. Or why, when David did the census in a manner other than what God commanded, the people of Israel (not David himself) were punished.
You notice, though, that after the flood of Noah, God made a vow that he would never destroy everything in that way again. Change of heart?
This will seem petty, but in the context of asking about "the christian god", "it" is a "he" and can be referred to as a "he". If someone were talking about you, or someone you loved, you would not enjoy being called "it" instead of by name, or by at least the proper pronoun.
2006-10-13 23:10:49 · answer #3 · answered by CrazyChick 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created man with a purpose.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The verse before your quote says
Gen 6:5 And Jehovah 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.
When God was sorry ( the word for repent here is from the Hebrew word which means to sigh strongly) that He made man, He decided to wipe the board clean.
The purpose for the animals to God were that they were created to be under the authority of man. By taking away man, the purpose of the animals was taken away too.
Anger is not always something that has a rhyme or reason to it, by the way.
2006-10-13 23:19:04 · answer #4 · answered by rainydayblues1 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Last I checked God SAVED the animals on the earth by having his only faithful servant left alive - Noah - build an ark big enough to house them all while he wiped out the corruption with the great flood.
2006-10-13 23:00:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Earth was filled with so much sin that God got sick of it and destoryed everything and made the Earth bare again. Thats why He told Noah to build the ark and take two of each animal with him so when the flood hit and destory everything that was outside the ark when it was all over in 40days the animals could reproduce and multiple the Earth.
2006-10-13 23:00:02 · answer #6 · answered by Ambegurl 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Ely C., what you do when your child is ungrateful is you continue to love them. That is what parenthood is about - it's your job to love them, not their job to love you. What you DON'T do is destroy your children because they were rude to you. Don't you know anything about kids?
"If there is a creator god he seems to have had an inordinate fondness for beetles" - a scientist, commenting on the hundreds of thousands of species of beetles in the world. Heh heh! Laugh! Hugs for everybody.
2006-10-14 00:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Through the Bible there are many references to animals, and most of them are not negative....even Christ was the 'Lamb of God'...you are taking a single verse and making it in to things not intended. Moreover, the Bible was translated, and many errors have occurred, thusly it could be a mis-interpretation of the idea. Your Biblical knowledge is overshadowed by the lack of thought.
2006-10-13 23:00:55 · answer #8 · answered by Frank 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
once adam and eve ate fruit it just ruined everything for him. he's like that whiney petulant 2 yr when things don't go it's way.
2006-10-13 23:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Your question is out of context. I think you should read the rest of the story.
2006-10-13 22:59:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋