Is it just me, or is the Great Flood romanticized to a high degree?

Question

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 broken human cadavers (of men, women, children, and infants alike) floating around in that vast ocean.

Also, don't forget that there would have also been streams of blood in that big, newly formed ocean. The gigantic waves would have been tossing people up against rocks, buildings, etc., inevitably taking off body parts in the process. Also, the ark would have been knocking the corpses aside as it tore through the waters, probably taking off some limbs, too.

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 and destruction

Answer 1

Because no one would buy those paintings.

Answer 2

The disease in the water would have tainted ALL of the drinking water on earth. Plain and simple. No water would be drinkable. There were floods back then just like there are today (New Orleans is sinking, the tsunami anyone?) There was NO giant flood that wiped out the world. If that was true the entire world would be arab. There were people living in North and South America who were never EVER even touched with this religion bull untill the last 500 years.

Answer 3

We romanticize this world all the time when in reality it all ends with death and destruction but for the grace of God that through his atonement we have eternal life without sickness and pain. Why look at such a small picture there is an entire world of death and destruction. There is nothing new under the sun those who do not believe do not accept the truth and they die and persish and it is horrible but through the grace of God he provided through the atonement and the resurrection of Jesus Christ it need not be so.

Answer 4

You are only partly right. There wouldn't have been enough blood for it to show in the amount of water there was.
And the ark wouldn't have gone "plowing through the waves", as it had neither a motor nor a sail. If you look carefully at its dimensions, yhou will see that it was built for stability in water, not for motion forward. It just floated.

Answer 5

Because there's a certan disconnect in the minds of religious people when it comes to contemplating the idea that their God of loving kindness and mercy supposedly once massacred every human being on the face of the earth save for one family, which thereafter incestuously rebuilt the species.

Answer 6

If that story is true, then the ark was as big as Manhattan island!!! of course any structual engineer will tell you that a structure that large would be unstable if it were made out of wood and put on the high seas!!!

Answer 7

i agree. it is romanitcized, but i think there are 2 main reasons for this.

1. people always seem to fear/avoid death and almost anything related to it. why start acknowledging it in a bible story?

2. the people relating the story are Christians, and they were the ones who had a happy ending.

Answer 8

Good.
So why don't you DE-romanticize the the Great flood by drawing your own pictures?

Answer 9

Probably the same reason that Jesus is always portrayed as a white man.

Answer 10

people depict what they want to, so yea romanticized...