Why did God murder innocents in the Great Flood?

Question

I mean, what kind of love is that to drown one that worships Him?

And can you please refrain with (1) He works in mysterious ways and (2) those that were faithful went to to their heavenly reward -- I mean, after all, you only live once, why intentionally cut life short?

That's it? There was 1 good person on the whole entire world? That's even harder to believe that the 40 days 40 nights business.

I guess I'm not making myself very clear to those that profess that the "whole world" was evil. We're talkin global genocide here. What about all those people who didn't live in the mid-east? The comment that "Sometimes it's easier just to start over" is with such callous disregard for life that it really makes me wonder about what values this so-called religous virtue embraces. The whole thing's just silly, anyway. Why didn't the All-Powerful just have everybody except for Noah drop dead? Or were the butterflies "evil" too?

Answer 1

I want to know why he lets innocent people die everyday as well.

Answer 2

Who said they were innocent?
We discussed this yesterday in Sunday School. When a time comes where there is so much iniquity in the world or in a region of the world that there isn't even a chance of a child having the opportunity to choose God's ways over the devil's ways, then God (in the case of the Great Flood) destroys that people (in the cases where the cup of iniquity is full in a specific region, He allows other peoples or even themselves to kill each other off until none remain of that family/tribe/group/etc).
In the case of the Great Flood, He made arrangements for those few righteous people, and their immediate families (wife and children) to escape (via the ark).

As to your comment about why intentionally cut life short, why do people over eat, smoke, do drugs, speed, have road rage, and all the other millions and billions of things we do that intentionally cut our own lives short.

Answer 3

When you look at it from the stand point of a Non Believer- it makes no sense. However; people were given the chance to save themselves-
You say - well who would follow the crazy old man - who was building a boat when it had NEVER rained?? 8-9? did
No person is innocence- except a child - and that age of reason for a child and beyond we can decide what path we want to follow.
And as far as their lives were over- well their lives were going to be one way- some time -or another. We are all going to die- some of us are just sure where we are heading.

Answer 4

I assume you mean the account of Noah and the Ark found in Genesis. If that is the case, your question is misleading. There were no innocents drowned in the flood. Genesis 6:5 "The LORD saw the wickedness of man (humanity) was great on the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Humanity is never innocent before God, just forgiven.

Answer 5

God did not murder any innocent people that day. EVERYONE was guilty so they received God's justice. Even Noah was not innocent but God chose him and his family to be saved.

Genesis 6:5 The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

Answer 6

Hmm. I have read a book about Noah by Mormon apostle Mark E. Petersen as well as a Bible commentary by W. Cleon Skousen, and although I do not have those two books in front of me today, I remember that they commented that what had happened with the time of Noah was probably what the Israelites were warned against time after time in the Bible - that is, fertility cults using people to commit all kinds of whoredoms had become so widespread as to be irreversible, along with all kinds of sexual depredations including but not limited to homosexuality and sodomy, and even the youngest children themselves were brought up in that wicked environment. Some of the rituals even included placing helpless babies in idols' furnaces to be roasted alive. Remember, there were no psychologists or counselors to work with children of sexual abuse back in that time. Children who grow up participating in that level of debauchery almost always have serious issues of all kinds, and back in those days, people did not have as much free time to stop and work things out with counselors, even if they had existed. What we need to do is start looking at things from God's point of view. Sometimes it is easier to start over because otherwise corruption completely ruins even the youngest children's chances for a normal and spiritually healthy life. Remember also, they did have hundreds of years (or at least a long period of time) to repent - but if the adults did not do so, what chance did the children have, who were still dependent on the adults for direction?. Noah tried warning them repeatedly. But only the hardest of hearts will reject a prophet of God.

Answer 7

"where is God when innocent babies people are murdered?" He certainly isn't absent, nor does he find pleasure in what happened. He may have morally sufficient reasons for allowing it that we just do not know. Just because we do not know the reason does not automatically mean that God doesn't have one. We simply don't have that much knowledge. "I believe there is a God I'm not an atheist but why do we have to burn in eternal hell for seeking other religions out. " People go to hell for their sins, not for the reason you gave. "loving all Gods because they are in fact the same God?" This is a pretty ignorant statement. All one has to do is study each religion to see how fundamentally different each god is from one another.

Answer 8

In Genesis it says....He saw that the entire earth had become bad and filled with violence.
The only one who was innocent was Noah and his family. When Noah preached the news of the great flood coming, they laughed in his face and thought him mad.

The time of Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham asked God if he would spare the town if there were 40 (and went down to 10) people who were innocent living in that town. And He said yes.

If there were innocent people, God would have given them the chance to survive.

Answer 9

I can answer this question. The reason for the flood was that NO ONE except for Noah and his family were innocent. The world was filled with evil save for Noah's family. This is why they were the only ones spared.

Answer 10

There were no innocents. All were sinning without regard for God. Only Noah and his immediate family were favored in God's eye.

Answer 11

He didn`t kill anyone. They were drowned in the sea. Now i ask you , can you drink seawater? NO. The word of god is like water. It fulfill you when you are thirsty, now if words are water that you can drink, it mean words that can be understandable. They were drowned in the seawater, i.e. they were drowned in meaningless words that could not promote salvation.