Could you have stood by watching babies drown in the flood and done nothing?

Question

Imagine seeing it happen. God must be able to bear it. That means that he is able to be cold in the face of human suffering. Could you be that cold?

Emmy: No possible way it was just.

Answer 1

No I'm not Noah or one of his sons, so if I had been there I would have been treading water waiting to die just like everyone else, even the babies.

God was mad and he wiped out everyone.

The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil "all the time."

Answer 2

Most certainly not. I guess only a truly despicable god could have done that! Sometimes I wonder why the Judeo-Christian God has such warped sense of justice: someone sins, and he unjustly punishes the innocent! Thus why kill everyone - guilty or not (including innocent dimpled babies) - in a world wide flood? How rash! Also recall how the "All Merciful God" slaughtered 70,000 innocent men for an offence commited by David (II Sam. 24). In fact the criminal acts of the Bible Jehovah knows no bounds! More humane characters will cringe at such blood-demanding, savage acts!

Answer 3

You fail to realize that if God had not destroyed the evil that was rampant in the world at that time, the earth would have become a permanent hell, and a place beyond redemption in Christ.

Due to the forces of evil, nearly all of humanity had been turned into a mutant race of evil beings who were never authorized or intended by God.

As Randy Newman might say, those people had "no reason to live."

You also neglect to consider the spiritual aspect of an immortal soul.

While the earthly life of these hybrid creatures may have come to an end a bit early, they were all destined to die anyway, and their immortal spirits lived on.

God simply made a difficult but proper command decision, based on his justice, and his divine will, which trumps any other considerations.

Cold? Maybe. But it was right!

Answer 4

What makes you believe God has anything to do with it, only man is cold in the face of human suffering, God dose not control this physical world, and I just wonder when you people will get that through your thick heads.

Answer 5

I don't really care what other people would do but I know for a fact that I would not bear seeing a baby drowning in the flood. I am dying to adopt a child and it kills me to see people just droping their children at doorsteps or killing them. That is not fair.

Answer 6

Only god in his infinite wisdom can stand the suffering of innocent babies. Let us be glad he didn't command us to kill innocents (just ignore the old testament and this will ring true).

Answer 7

The Blood which flows in me would have Gush within me before i could even think of not helping that baby. Whether it is your Own blood or some one else we carry the same human feelings.

Answer 8

if the babies went to God and lived with HIm forever instead of being raised in a violent world filled with evil ... I thik that would be for God to decide which is better

most people in those times lived very very much longer lives than today and when they drown had more than several lifetimes worth of living... you dont seem to be complaining about the unfairness of why they lived for many centuries

Answer 9

Hi Meat, I think in the future I will refer to you as XXI in reccognition of your improved versioning!

Interesting question to stir contrversy amoung some of Faith.

See my answer to your last question, it is the same as this one.

As commentary:

I do agree from most perspectives, it may seem cold and injust, but it may have been as it apears in the case of the cities Sodom and Gomorrah. A act to limit the damage men had already brought upon themselves.

I am sure that it was not easy for him to see his children act as they did. After repeated opportunities for them to turn from their not only incorrect, abhorant ways, maybe he felt it was better to stop them from bringing any more condemation upon themselves.

Yes, seeing baibies die in this way could be considered cold in a temporal sense, but for them, as childern, still pure, having received bodies of flesh and bone and not having yet had the opportunity of proving themselves, I believe they would be saved in the eternities.

This temporal exsistance that we experience as men on this earth is but a grain of sand in the eternities. It mearly serves as a learning station. We each receive upon coming to earth, one of three necessary things that as we understand it are part of God's stated purpose of us here on this earth, a body. The other two, a proving period, and the binding ordainancees of the priesthood, while necessary are achivable at other times and through other methods.

While yes, I agree that to men in our temporal nature and knowedge, many of the acts of God as we percieve them may seem cold, even unjust from our perspective, we oporate on a lower plain with out a perfect knowledge or understanding of his acts, purpose or will.

Answer 10

The same old war cry, if God doesn`t fix it then He must be this or that,someone just killed my dog and He didn`t fix it,
and on and on, ad-nauseum