drown people in a flood? If he didn't like the way things were going with his creation couldn't he have just struck them dead where they stood? Why the torture of drowning?
2007-02-06 10:15:03 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He did not do that. The bible is fiction.
2007-02-06 10:18:14 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Noah told everyone that the flood was coming and he spent a long time building a really huge ark.
People didn't listen and that was their choice.
In the legends of the Jews by Ginsberg (gutnberg.net)the animals came and surrounded the ark and Noah picked the best to climb on the ark.
The rest of the animals just stood around and waited.
When the flood came and everyone started running for the ark the animals stopped standing and started eating the people attacking the ark. The torture for many, if it was torture, was being eaten alive by animals. Or so Ginsberg tells is in the legends of the Jews.
If another ice age does come you can always say the same thing about Global Warming, "See, I told you so!"
The thing is that your question assumes life stops with death. It does not. You think time flows for God the way it does for you. It does not.
A man only has one life, but is that life spiritual or physical? Does God see one moment at a time or all moments at all times?
Are people reincarnated into different bodies? Maybe your soul is reincarnated into a hundred different physical lives right now. Maybe physical reincarnation does not exist.
Maybe, if you believe you are coming back to life so it does not matter what you do, you don't come back to life.
One thing is for sure. You will continue to exist after you die, physically or spiritually you will continue to exist. Your atoms will exist and I believe your spirit will exist.
Is drowning torture compared to living? Many Suicides don't think so. Who is right? You? God? The suicide?
I can give you an opinion based on my study and my experience.
2007-02-06 18:36:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why the flood? I believe because they flooded His perfect world with sin and evil, and because He wanted to leave it usable to Noah and his descendants (and we are Noah's descendants).
Why not just strike them down dead? and Why the torture of drowning? I believe "incentive" and "justice" is the answer. The torture is not the drowning. It really does not matter as to the way or method of death, because if you die without God in your life, then there really is no hope, and hell is the reward for such a life. Hell is far worse than the method of death, and it is for eternity. Those who go to Hell will eventually end up drowning in the Lake of Fire for all eternity, because they permanently wrecked His original design, and that is the perfect justice, of which a perfect God must do. Don't worry, they will have a just trial, a complete and perfect defense, and they will be given all mercy possible and God will be proven justified in His Judgement.
2007-02-06 18:28:25 · answer #3 · answered by Shawn D 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Speaking as a Christian who doesn't take the Bible literally, word for word --
Water represents the idea of cleansing. Not only cleansing, but the idea that what is being cleansed can remain intact and hold on to its proper form. (Like we wash our dishes in water, and they're still dishes afterwards -- we sterilize them with intense heat, and they're destroyed.) That's why this particular story is of a flood -- that all the dirt could be washed away but the earth was still left intact. There have been stories about floods dating back to the early Mesopotamian religions, in the cradle of civilization. Its a parable, demonstrating God's power to rid the world of anything he wishes. Its designed to instill a respectful fear in its readers. The idea behind the story was all that mattered, not that every word of it is believed.
2007-02-06 18:25:28 · answer #4 · answered by ◦Delylah◦ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he wanted them to feel pain. Maybe it was for justice.
Or maybe he wanted the scientific things that happened. With all of that moister, that might be where the ice age came from. The seashells on top of mount Everest might be a huge testimony to a flood and to God. The force of the flood might have started continents drifting. Maybe if was so that we would have so many fossils to learn from.
He had a plan. We just don't know it.
2007-02-06 18:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by bradley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He drowned them because that was the most proficient way to kill everything. Think about it. If you tried to hide somewhere the water would just find you. One cannot hide from water. If you hid in a whole or something the water would eventually find it's way through. That was nothing, that death was merciful for those people. The next death will be with fire and no one will die, but be alive.
2007-02-06 18:33:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if He would have simply struck them dead, you would be asking "why couldn't he simply make a flood and drown everyone?"...your just looking for questions to ask.
2007-02-06 18:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
God has no powers of his own. He relies on the forces of nature to do the destruction like the flood and the earthquakes and stuff mentioned in Matt-24.
2007-02-06 18:23:27 · answer #8 · answered by Nuwaubian Moor 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
To show His infinite power. His power to control the elements. If God had just struck people down, people like you would figure that civilization had a mass heart attack.
2007-02-06 18:25:05 · answer #9 · answered by The Last Good Man 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nice god. Drowned even the newborn babies.
2007-02-06 18:24:56 · answer #10 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should always capitalize God. If you don't, you might drown.
Actually it was the people's choice to drown; Noah gave them fair warning, and all they had to do was get on the boat, but they would not.
2007-02-06 18:17:40 · answer #11 · answered by supertop 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋