See, I do know how to be culturally sensitive.
2006-11-29 07:58:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Start over. I doubt he flooded entire world, I think if he did, it was the world Noah and his people knew. A lot of cultures have great flood story.
2006-11-29 08:00:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I knew you were capable and these questions will net you far more information than many of your previous ones.
I'd say not many jewish scholars out there in the mood to answer this. After all you are a shiksa.
The Nephthilim answer is scriptural but I think that the ant farm idea has merit as well at least not an idea to sumarily dispose of without giving it a little thought.
2006-11-29 22:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People were being bad. They were not following the commandments, and life was really horrible. G-d found one good person, Noah, and told him to build an ark, get two of every animal species (one male, one female), and to put them on the ark, along with him and his family. Then G-d flooded the Earth, basically killing all forms of life on the Earth. Then, G-d ended the flood, and made a rainbow as His promise to never do it again.
It's a really good story.
2006-11-29 08:01:52 · answer #3 · answered by Joshua Z 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As Punishment - and as a note to some of the other answers there was no real good people of that time. Even Noah is not looked upon favorably in Judaism. He was a good man for HIS AGE
2006-11-29 07:59:20 · answer #4 · answered by Quantrill 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont know about Judaism but in the bible God flooded the Earth to rid it of all the sin and sinners that were there. He only spared Noah because Noah loved and worshipped God.
2006-11-29 08:01:06 · answer #5 · answered by buff23_7 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God was pretty darn fed up because some of the heavenly beings were having sex with female humans and producing offspring called Nephilim. This is where we get all our old mythology about giants and demi-gods, by the way. Anyway, their behavior was so disgusting to God that He decided to clean things up with a great big gigantic bath!
2006-11-29 08:01:24 · answer #6 · answered by Zebra4 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There was evil in the world and instead of just popping only the evil ones out of existance God wanted to be terribly cruel and destroy most life on earth by drowning them in more water then is on the entire earth, and then leaving no archeological evidence of the act.
2006-11-29 08:00:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
to create Earth v2.0. as the story goes, G-d looked at the world and said "holy crap, look at how evil all the humans have become. i'd better wipe them all out and start over again. i'll let noah live, cuz he's so righteous, and so all of his descendants will probably be righteous too."
2006-11-29 08:12:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sometimes you need to shake the ant farm up and see what happens.
2006-11-29 08:00:31 · answer #9 · answered by soulburner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
cause somebody choked a chicken
2006-11-29 08:00:24 · answer #10 · answered by Red Eye 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋