Why didn't God Send Jesus Before the Flood?

Question

I mean was it really necessary to kill every single man,woman,child animal on the planet?(except of Noah and his family and 2 of every animal.) Just because God didn't agree with what they were doing? I mean wouldn't have it been more logical to send Jesus before the flood to die for everyones sins or did God just feel like flooding the entire earth and killing his creation? Also God "being all knowing" must have known that things wouldn't get better after the flood so was the flood really needed? I want serious answers only....Not quotes from the bible.

Hey wrong answer...You definately are true to your name! ummmm Thats a pretty dumb answer. God being god didn't need to flood the earth. Thats the point of this question. Re read it over and over again until it clicks in your head.

Answer 1

I notice not alot of Christians have answered this question. I bet they are Searching for the answer through google! Hahahahaha Sheep!


* Hey Fireball....I love you but your answer makes no sense...but I still think you kick ***! if you were god would you want to be crucified for Crimes you didn't commit? He was anyways right.

Answer 2

The Bible gives a couple of reasons. (And sorry if I have to quote the book, but it is kind of hard to answer a question about it says without quoting it)

Read Genesis 6:1-5. You will see an often overlooked statement that the "sons of God" (who are angels) had intermingled with the "daughter of men" (who are human). The results was a genetic intermingling that was causing mutations, disease, giants, etc. that would have lead to the extinction of human life. There was more than just sin involved. There was also physical, genetic issues that had to be dealt with. So God saved the only family that was BOTH morally and physically pure, and destroyed the rest to stop the genetic diseases. Just sending Jesus to forgive sins at that time would not have saved mankind. They would still have the genetic diseases and mutation killing them.

Also, God's decision on when to send Jesus was based on more issues than just "sin". He needed to have the Old Testament in place to point to Jesus so that people would know about and believe in him. He had to come at a time when writing was common enough that his appearance could be recorded. At a time when roads were developed to where the message could be carried across most of the known world in a single generation. A time when there was a strong enough government to keep peace so that people could travel with the message. At the time when papyrus was been replaced by vullem, so that written documents (like the early New Testament manuscripts) would survive.

Apparently the time the God choose with a good one, because within a single generation the entire known world heard about Jesus.

As far those who lived before the time of Noah, and died in the flood, the Bible states that Jesus went to where their spirits were imprisoned, in between his death and resurrection, and preach specifically to them. They were given the same opportunity to hear about and acknowledge Jesus as the generation in which Jesus lived. So God "made up" for their unfortunate need to be destroyed by offering them an opportunity for salvation which was beyond that of other generations. (I Peter 3:19-20)

Answer 3

The people before the flood had over one hundred years of good preaching by Noah himself before the flood. They chose to ignore and reject the living God even though they had full knowledge of Him from the earlier Patriarchs. God was extremely fair with the inhabitants of the earth at that time. A hundred years is a long time to give a human a chance to repent. Nobody had to die in that flood. It was their choice. I am convinced that had civilization been allowed to continue the crime index would have gone much higher than it is right now.
God is very fair. We know this because of Noah and because of His Word.

Gen 18:25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

I Cr 13;8a

EDIT: It is interesting to note that the Chinese Character for traveling is 8 men in a boat. Of course for anyone to know this they would have to know some Chinese or have studied the Bible
and the "Noah Story"

Answer 4

Serious answers only, no quotes from the bible. Hmmm. The situation you're referring to happened in the Bible so I don't see why you should be so offended if someone used the Bible to explain something that happened in it's own pages.
Anyhow, doesn't that tell you what will happen to everyone that's doing what God doesn't "agree" with?
You act like you know better than God. If you read the bible, it took Noah and his family around 40 years to create the ark, gather all of the animals/food and preach to the nations. Everyone was invited to go with them, they just decided not to listen. And just because someone died before Jesus came to earth, doesn't mean that they automatically have no hope. In Revelations it speaks of a resurrection of the righteous and the unrighteous.

Answer 5

The flood never happened. It is simply the retelling of a local Babylonian fairy tale. Contrary to stated beliefs, not every culture has a flood story. There is no Egyptian flood story and in fact the Egyptian civilization extends unbroken to a point thousands of years "before" the flood was suppose to have taken place. The Chinese have no flood story and I challenge anyone to find one. The Aryans of the Hindu Kush have no flood story and the Mahabharata has a history that goes back further than the bibles creation story.

Answer 6

Put yourself at ease and go to www.sacred-texts.com, click on ancient near east and find the stories of the Epic of Gilgamesh, there are 3 different versions, a Sumerian, (the oldest) Babylon ion, and Akkadian. In the middle of this story is a story about the great deluge. Read these, study the info on these. These stories are far far older than the bible and the Noah story, science has documented that. After you read them I think that you will find that the similarities are to great to be coincidental. It is obvious the Noah story was created from these stories. While it maybe true that there was a great flood the bible version of why is just mythology.

Answer 7

A global flood was proven impossible long ago. There are no sings of a global flood anywhere on earth. This is not just something that might have happened, there would be evidence with 100% certainty if there was a flood, everywhere in fact, there is none.

The Bible, my advice is to if you choose to rely on the Old Testament, take it more like the new testament, full of parables. These are not literal stories.

Answer 8

THEY DESERVED TO DIE. THEY SHOWED NO RESPECT TO THEIR CREATOR AND WERE SHOW NO APPRECIATION OR THANKS FOR ANY OF THE GIFTS THAT GOD GAVE THEM. THEY WERE JUST RUINING THE EARTH THAT TOOK JEHOVAH THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO MAKE. IT MAKES ME MAD JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. They lived in much better condtions that we do now. They were just selfish. Jehovah could have wiped them out and could have been done with mankind as a whole forever. SO BE THANKFUL.. Jehovah had Noah go out and build the ark. (Before the Great Flood, it had never rained on the earth). They laughed and made fun of him and his family and him building that ark. They thought he was crazy and did not turn away from doing bad. Everyone had an opportunity to turn from doing bad, no one did but Noah and his family. It took Noah decades to builf the ark. So Jehovah did not act wickly, they did not repent and turn away from there badness so Jehovah brought on the deluge. The earth was very bad they have nephilim( angels that taken on human bodies and sleeping with women and having super human babies that terrorized the earth), and Gen.6:5 brings out that " the badness of man was abundant in the earth and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was ONLY bad ALL the time."

(Gen 6:11,12) "And the earth came to be ruined in the sight of the [true] God and the earth became filled with violence. 12 So God saw the earth and, look! it was ruined, because all flesh had ruined its way on the earth."

(Matt 24:37-39) "For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be. 38 For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; 39 and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be."

If someone came in your house and tore your house up and disrespected u and were violent toward your family, would you get rid of them, or would you let them remain?

P.S. He do will do away with all wickness shortly forever.
(Psalms 37:9-11, 29) 9For evildoers themselves will be cut off,
But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth.

10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more;
And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be.

11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,
And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.

29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth,
And they will reside FOREVER upon it.

Answer 9

That's not any of your business .
that's Gods business, you think maybe you know better then God?
damn boy ,you sure or conceited.
Why did god allow my family to die in that car wreck and my home destroyed in that disaster?why am I in horrible pain, why or you asking such ridiculous questions?Praise God for everything ,.which means give it all to God and let go.
Things or just the way they or,Right here,right now is whats important,.
ask the spirit of God into you and ask the spirit about spiritual things and ask about how to conduct your life . and listen for the answers and then try to do Gods will is whats important. not some thing that happened long ago, if it did happen at all,it DOESN'T matter spiritually son.about a flood.long ago.that's old history.The ONLY thing that matters is your relationship with God thru his spirit.with true faith and love.Right NOW.all the rest of the bible is just filler.Jesus said he was going back to heaven to be with his father BUT he would leave us the holy ghost.Thats ALL we have here.

Answer 10

I don't know what this is going to sound like to you, but the only answer I can give is that God has His own reasoning and His own timing. Perhaps He wanted to demonstrate over time that He could be either harsh (the Flood) or compassionate (sending Jesus) in dealing with sinners.