Noahs Ark-- Did the flood really happen? If so, isnt god a murderer?

Question

If the great flood really happened, and really was the work of god, isnt it true god murdered thousands and thousands of creatures?
So... Gods a mass murderer?

Answer 1

Sura - 71 Noah
Order Of Revelation 71, Verses: 28


[71:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

[71:1] We sent Noah to his people: "You shall warn your people before a painful retribution afflicts them."

[71:2] He said, "O my people, I am a manifest warner to you.

[71:3] "To alert you that you shall worship GOD, reverence Him, and obey me.

[71:4] "He will then forgive you your sins and respite you for a predetermined period. Most assuredly, GOD's appointment can never be delayed, once it is due, if you only knew."

[71:5] He said, "My Lord, I have invited my people night and day.

[71:6] "But my invitation only increased their aversion.

[71:7] "Whenever I invited them to be forgiven by You, they placed their fingers in their ears, covered themselves with their clothes, insisted, and turned arrogant.

[71:8] "Then I invited them publicly.

[71:9] "Then I proclaimed to them loudly, and I spoke to them privately.

[71:10] "I said, `Implore your Lord for forgiveness; He is Forgiving.

[71:11] " `He will then shower you generously with rain.

[71:12] " `And provide you with money and children, and orchards, and streams.' "

[71:13] Why should you not strive to reverence GOD?

[71:14] He is the One who created you in stages.

[71:15] Do you not realize that GOD created seven universes in layers?

[71:16] He designed the moon therein to be a light, and placed the sun to be a lamp.

[71:17] And GOD germinated you from the earth like plants.

[71:18] Then He returns you into it, and He will surely bring you out.

[71:19] GOD made the earth habitable for you.

[71:20] That you may build roads therein.

[71:21] Noah said, "My Lord, they disobeyed me, and followed those who were even more corrupted when blessed with money and children.

[71:22] "They schemed terrible schemes.

[71:23] "They said, `Do not abandon your gods. Do not abandon Wadd, Suwaa`, Yaghouth, Ya`ooq, and Nasr.'

[71:24] "They misled many. Therefore, let the wicked plunge deeper into loss."

[71:25] Because of their sins they were drowned and assigned to the hellfire. They found no helpers to protect them from GOD.

[71:26] Noah also said, "My Lord, do not leave a single disbeliever on earth.

[71:27] "For if you let them, they will only mislead your servants and give birth to nothing but wicked disbelievers.

[71:28] "My Lord, forgive me and my parents, and anyone who enters my home as a believer, and all the believing men and women. But do not give the disbelievers anything but annihilation."

http://www.submission.org/suras/sura71.html

Answer 2

Take your pick from these. 1) After 40 days and 40 nights, the ark came to rest on Mount Ararat where it remains and can still be identified in the landscape by those with a good imagination. 2) The story of Noah is based upon a much earlier flood narrative and similar stories are found in the folklore of most Middle Eastern people. The original account possibly dates back to around 10,000 years ago and the cataclysmic effects of the Mediterranean breaking through the land dam on the Bosporus and flooding a huge area before the waters subsided into the Black Sea. It has since been retold with additional features from the periodic flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates and the Nile. The Hebrew version adds a moralistic twist with the many being damned and the few saved - a popular theme in the Calvinist religion.

Answer 3

Read the account in Genesis. First you must agree with these premises (even if you don't believe in God so that you can make a correct picture of Christianity) before making any conclusion.

1. God created the universe
2. God created man
3. God gave man the gift of "free will"

You know and we know that man has fallen as a consequence of of his disobedience. Man cannot live as like "robots"(W/o free will) but God gave man the knowledge already that if he choose to disobey Him, he(man) will die. And that is what happened. And when at the time of Noah, men were going very corrupt in nature.

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.

By flooding the earth, God was doing justice. Because if God does not allow that to happen, Noah will hardly survive, since we knew already that men during that time were evil and doing nothing but evil. Besides given in the premises above, who can question God? When in fact He was the creator, He also knew what to do to His creations. The logic is how can a clay say to the potter "What did you do to me"? Thus, we are a clay on the Potter's hand.

Answer 4

I know it is 8 years later, but don't believe in the Noah movie thinking Noah is a mass murderer as he let Man perish by god's command. Especially the end when he was about to straight up murder his newborn grandson for God.

Answer 5

i think that you could say that for all natural disasters...many things can be questioned of why does God allow people to suffer or to die at the hand of nature or people, if He is good.

people that believe in the Christian God, will tend to believe that if he created it and he isnt happy with it, he can do whatever he wants with it, if he isnt pleased with it. and that His ways are not the ways of mankind.

from what i understand, there was a flood.
many cultures around the world have an account of a great flood in their history:
china, india, maya, greeks, aztecs, incas, hopi, etc. so it is likely something happened.

there is supposed to be an ark on the top of mt. ararat on turkey / iran / armenian border frozen in the ice. there has been movies and books made about it and there are photos of it.

Answer 6

I don't believe in god and I don't believe in noah's ark. In spite of that I think this idea is wrong.
Murder is something people do to other people. You can attribute all deaths to god it doesn't make it murder. That would be like saying that antibacterial soap is a tool for genocide. The fact is if you believe in god then you owe him your gratitude for creating everything. He made the world and he can do what he wants with it. Besides killing off tons of people is not that big of a deal since they just go up to join him in heaven afterwords.
I had to talk like a christian to make my point. So just a reminder. I'm not. Just tolerant. I don't see any point in trying to use logic or science to "discredit" christians. spirituality is a personal decision. Religion and science are separate and should not intersect-----EVER!!!!!!

Answer 7

You decide if it's true or not, but it is written. God is the creator of all things, so if He killed as you say, they were His to give life and take it away. No one knows the mind of God, but in this case, it states He was displeased with His creation, full of wickedness and angels had impregnated women and giants were among mortal men as offspring. If I grow a crop of wheat, I nurture and care for it, then I turn it into bread, mold gets in it, I decide I don't like it, so I destroy it, am I a mass murderer?

Answer 8

God is not so much a murderer as he is a creator of life. and if you understood that This world is legally His and all life is bought by him, he owns us. But enter the works of Evil beings that undermine legal ownership and title to the planet that say if we get mortal men to destroy themselves then "we" can steal the earth from its legal owner. and when mortal men choose to follow evil instead of God, they no longer have the right to be called the children of God. then there is the other side of the story of corrupting all flesh that it no longer has the image of God but becomes abominations that like an infection it has to be burned.

Answer 9

Read over Noah's Ark in chapters 6 to 9 in Genesis. Then come tell me if you have that question again.

Answer 10

He killed all but 9 people on the planet at that time. He killed those that did not believe in Him. He is a jealous God and not to be messed with, in my opinion. They did, see what happened ? It was essentially 'flushing the toilet'. It will also happen again, but not quite in the same way. Are you ready ? Will you float or be flushed ?

Answer 11

The flood really occurred. Have you ever made something and then broken it, "murdered" it, accidentally or because you hated it? God can't murder, He kills! He has reason and it is not up to us to question Him. Ever!