Every time I see a painting, drawing, etc. of the Flood, it usually consists of the Ark sailing through a vast ocean, breaking through the waves.
Why do they rarely ever show human and animal corpses floating around in that water? After all, that IS how it would have looked. There would have been dead animals getting tossed around by the waves. There also would have been dead human cadavers (of men, women, children, and infants alike) floating around in that vast ocean.
Why don't they ever show that? Why not show it like it was instead of making it into some pleasant story, when it's really a tale of death, gore, and destruction.
2006-12-15 06:56:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bear in mind there would also have been streams of blood in the water, too. Those waves would have been thrashing those bodies around, knocking them into rocks, buildings, etc., creating gashes in the flesh--and possibly hacking off some body parts, too (which would have also been floating around in the water). Also, the Ark would have been knocking all that aside as it tore through the vast, newly created ocean, possibly breaking a few bodies in the process as well.
2006-12-15 15:50:14 · answer #1 · answered by I'm Still Here 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just a reminder:
God offers mercy before any judgment. Some choose not to accept His gift.
Perhaps the bodies of which you speak have 1) not surfaced yet or 2) after surfacing, have gone back under, you know as food for the beasts of the ocean.
I get your point that everything died. I think the Holy Bible was very clear on that as well.
Again, remember...God offers mercy and salvation as a gift. We only need to accept it.
2006-12-15 15:04:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason we don't show Jesus on the cross-barely being able to breathe from all of Hi sounds and lack of blood. We don't want to remember that though we are saved-it comes with a price. If we remember that price then it forces us to live our lives with the memory and to live better lives as a result of being saved without deserving it. Noah did deserve it- but what about the children and all- it is hard to think of them dying-but being that they died before they were able to make a commitment-it means that they are in Heaven. I doubt this would make anyone seeing that picture happier to know that though...
2006-12-15 15:01:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because tales of death, gore and destruction are not what people want to see and hear when they think about their bible. They want happy-gee whiz-isn't it wonderful stuff and not the grim reality of what things would actually have been like if they followed the bible's twisted logic.
2006-12-15 15:01:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ya, I don't know either. Truth is always the best policy. Think of it as a little refinement of humanity for the account of the salvation of mankind, in the Bible, taken as a whole, with all of it read in context.
2006-12-15 23:30:22 · answer #5 · answered by BigPappa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the sake of the children. Their minds aren't ready for that type of visualization.
2006-12-15 15:06:46 · answer #6 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A fairy tale can be portrayed in just about any way a person can think of.
2006-12-15 14:59:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have thought the same thing.
2006-12-15 15:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋