If God said he would not flood the world again, but the "world" was really just a localized area, does that mean God lied?
2007-04-23 09:44:10 · 30 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Or is there a third option?
2007-04-23 09:45:51 · update #1
the bible lies. not god.
thats a 3rd
2007-04-23 09:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by Loathing 6 · 4⤊ 6⤋
The flood is interesting. People who put all their faith in science deny the idea that God could have used what we call science to produce this effect. We all know now that all the planets around us have suffered huge bombardment for space. Earth has not been spared this sort of cataclysm. Couldn't God have used a huge space body of planetary proportion to "open the fountain of the deep" ? A near miss of a few hundred miles would produce tidal forces that would pull the sea up over the entire land mass. On every continent in almost every inch of surface is the remnant of sea life. Fossils of clam shells, even fish, EVERYWHERE. The God hates like to point out that there isn't enough water to cover the whole of the Earth on the world yet such a near miss could use the water of the sea to cause the same event.. I say God brought "fountain of the deep" to the land to cause a sudden flood that wiped the men that He wanted destroyed away... Jim
2007-04-23 17:00:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has not flood the whole earth so NO God didn't and does not lie. He made promises in the Bible and has kept his promises. He gave the rainbow as a reminder that he would never flood the whole earth with water again. The next time will be the end of the earth as we know it. Don't doubt God, he is faithful and true. Go back and read God's word, and you will see, that he truly keeps his promises. He kept his word when he gave His only begotten Son, how much more would you want from Him. Just trust Him, have faith, he will not fail you.
2007-04-23 16:55:51 · answer #3 · answered by grandmabonnie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there was a global flood since many other cultures have described it in their ancestral writings. It is true, however, that the "world" was used to describe the world as those who wrote the bible knew it, which was probably much, much smaller than what is "global" today.
What having this global flood or not having it has to do with God lying, I don't know. God has no reason to lie.
2007-04-23 16:53:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
People need to learn to do some research.
There was no global flood. Period. Believe whatever fairy tale you want, but god did not flood the earth. god does not exist. You people who believe there was a global flood frighten me.
2007-04-23 16:58:35 · answer #5 · answered by atheist jesus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3rd option. There was no global flood, nor was there a god to lie. The book was written by people or one person, and the information is incorrect. A global flood is impossible.
2007-04-23 16:49:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The flood story, like so much of the bible, is 'borrowed' from previous cultures. There is no basis for a world wide flood. The bible is a collection of parables, it is not a history book.
2007-04-23 16:59:36 · answer #7 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google Epic of Gilgamesh. :)
The fact that a flood story is in every major cultural history of that time period is proof enough for me. On the details of Noah and his family being the only survivors... well... that might be a little skewed.
As for God lying, you'd have to assume that he wrote the bible... which he didn't. Man wrote the bible. Supposedly the writers were enlightened by the spirit, but... that's neither here nor there. :)
2007-04-23 16:51:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No God didnt lie. and God did flood the world when people were sinning way too much. and he did promise not to flood and destroy the world. and he said the rainbow is a sign of his promise that he will never destroy nor flood the world again. and people were scattered everywhere across the earth i think. but does it matter if it was just an area. that point is God didnt lie. and God doesnt lie.
2007-04-23 16:49:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Every culture has a flood story, so it is likely a large scale flood occured, now wether it was the whole world, or just the Black Sea, is yet to be determined
2007-04-23 16:51:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Neither.
There probably was a regional flood that people assumed was the whole world because they had no knowledge of what the whole world was.
God didn't lie - God didn't write (or translate) the bible, people did. Who knows what their motivations were?
2007-04-23 16:51:03 · answer #11 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋