If god is supposed to be an all forgiving person?

Question

Why did god drown the whole world and kill everybody, just because they didn't do what he wanted? To me, that's not forgiving at all!

Answer 1

What makes you think that was the reason He did it?
There was a far more serious reason for the flood than some trivial misbehavior that could have been forgiven.

Human rebellion was not the only reason for God's displeasure. The Genesis account explains: “The sons of the true God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good-looking; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose. . . . The Nephilim proved to be in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of the true God continued to have relations with the daughters of men and they bore sons to them, they were the mighty ones who were of old, the men of fame.” (Genesis 6:2-4) Comparison of these verses with a statement recorded by the apostle Peter indicates that “the sons of the true God” were disobedient angels. The Nephilim were the hybrid offspring of illicit unions between women and materialized renegade angels.—1 Peter 3:19, 20.

“Nephilim,” meaning “Fellers,” denotes individuals who caused others to fall. They were tyrannical bullies, and the sin of their lustful fathers is likened to the perversions of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Jude 6, 7) Together, they whipped up intolerable wickedness on earth.

Besides building an ark, Noah sounded a warning and served God faithfully as “a preacher of righteousness.” But the people “took no note until the flood came and swept them all away.”—2 Peter 2:5; Matthew 24:38, 39.

Answer 2

Which is more loving: the parent that lets their child do whatever, and eventually spend a life in prison, or the parent that corrects their child, so that they spend their life eventually growing up and raising a happy family, using the same parenting methods used on them. God is more like the latter example. He loves us, and thus will punish us. Though punishment might not seem fun at the time, afterwards, when one is mature enough to look back at it positively, one will realize that it was for the better. In sending a flood, God was not being simply mean. He was delivering due judgment upon sinful people. And He did not kill EVERYbody. Here's the great thing: He loves us so much He made it possible for us to avoid the punishment due to US, through Christ Jesus. That in itself is an act of love. He is more than willing to forgive and love you, if only you would accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior! His will is so much better than anything I might have conjured up for my life. I cannot eternally hide my guilt and shame, Jesus can do away with it. I hope that this helps, God bless!

Answer 3

If you believe in a perfect, loving God, the Old Testament is impossible to reconcile with that belief. Once you accept that and recognize our religious texts for what they are you can begin to contemplate the true nature of the Creator.

The error here is not the concept of God, but the reliance upon the literal truth of scripture.

The truth is that God IS perfect Love. He Loves every manifestation of his Divinity completely and equally. His creation is a learning environment where we all evolve towards Him. Eventually, we will, each and every one of us, learn to Love our neighbors as ourselves and recognize that we are all divinely perfect, just as the masters have done. However we all make our own choices so some of us take longer on the journey than others.

There is no hell, but there is an immutable law of cause and effect. All actions good or ill have consequences, so you may punish yourself through your choices but God will never punish you. He waits with eternal patience and perfect Love while you experience all that you choose on your way back to him. You can at any moment choose to see the perfection in everyone and everything and to radiate the Love of the Creator in your own life, and thereby find your way back to the perfect Love of the Creator.

Don't get hung up on crazy stories of a demanding, jealous and wrathful god that are centuries old. Open your mind and search within yourself. You a part of all that is, and all your answers can be found within.

Answer 4

God gives everybody a chance to do what is right. Just like you do your kids or dog if you don't have kids. But after so long of telling them to do right you discipline them. That is what God did to the world only he is righteous and new the world was not going to change their ways. Noah was one that chose the right direction and way to act and was not destroyed with the rest of the world.
If you don't think discipline is necessary try letting your kids or dog do what ever they want and you will pay the price for cleaning up all their messes!

Answer 5

God only forgive if you ask, and the law of forgivness didn't come about until Jesus died on the cross. If you studied you would know that since Jesus was born God has not judged anyone in such a way.
God is forgiving, ask Him and He'll prove faithful and just.

Answer 6

permit the bible safeguard itself---ecclesiastes nine:five&10, first john four:eight, two timothy two:15-sixteen,john eleven:20-25,revelation 21:three&four are a few matters you might learn, as for proof that the bible is correct there may be the archaeological proof. the bible is an overly targeted publication giving occasions,dates, and names of beyond rulers. ago archaeologist might query exact dates and rulers named within the bible for the reason that there was once not anything to affirm it, now after extra digs and time has handed artifacts have totally proven those dates and rulers names. the bible additionally reads like a document with details giving time dates names and areas no longer like a film in a land a long way away many years in the past. the writers inform in their possess faults whatever no longer usual even in these days. the bible may be correct for instance isaiah fifty five:eleven speakme approximately the water cycle or genesis15:four&five on the time the celebs noticeable might were within the 1000's however God promised international locations (means various thousand) might come from abraham, in these days we all know there are stars past quantity. my factor is folks say it's unhealthy to blindly feel the bible , i agree, nevertheless i feel it's much more silly to brush aside the sort of predominant publication with out studying it and watching on the evidence that it's correct.

Answer 7

No, it's not. Supposedly it's because everyone in the world was "irredeemably evil"...but no specifics are provided. Other tales tell that God was trying to wipe out the Nephilheim...human-angel hybrids. Evidenly he failed because Nephilheim turn up in later stories.

Hence God is neither just, forgiving, nor omnipotent.

Answer 8

God has always given mankind a certain right - freewill to choose.

Mankind chose to be wicked, selfish, destructive, unrepentant, and disobedient of their Maker. They knew of the consequences, but elected by choice to continue in their willful ways. Warnings were sent, but only Noah and his family were respectful of what was right and wrong; Noah chose to be righteous before God.

Those who were killed in the flood were of Cain's kin, who had consummated with the 'sons of man' - satans angels, and there is speculation that these people were the spawn of half man and half satan's angels (still under debate), but with that aside, it needs to be understood that these people were wicked to such a degree that they were almost not of the original design of mankind.

Please recall that when the flood subsided, that God sent us the first rainbow as a symbol of promise that God would never destroy mankind again.

I guess that means that mankind will be destroying mankind the next time around? hmmmmm.....

Answer 9

They were probably really corrupt and immoral like killing people and the likes of that. There was no forgiveness except through animal sacrifices until Jesus came. If it was today, God wouldn't have done that because in His Son we're forgiven.

Answer 10

Doesn't seem the kind of thing a just and loving god would do, drowning over 99% of the world's population, does it?

And for those who point out that the Hebrew God promised never to do it again. Promising he'll never hit the Reset Button again doesn't bring back the drowned, does it?