"Christians": What should we think of a religion that approves of a god drowning babies (Noah's Flood)?

Question

Your god isn't powerful enough to have removed evil people while sparing babies, infants, toddlers, and any other child too young to be guilty of a sin?

In what way is it 'better' to believe a story about a god drowning all the babies is only a metaphor?

Answer 1

I find it funny that people are getting so offended over this question. The truth is, if the flood really happened, then God did kill many innocent children. Babies cannot sin. They don't know how. God killed them. Face that atleast if you believe that the flood happened.

Answer 2

I think his point was that men were full of wickedness, which stemmed from Eve sinning in the garden of eden and therefore condemning man to be born into sin from that moment on.

The Bible also says something about the Fallen Angels breeding with the daughters of men and having a more hands on influence on man during antideluvian times. I guess the logic behind it is that God wanted to wipe out the wickedness in the world and start again with Noah and his family. The babies would have been born into sin and would have grown up following in their parents footsteps. Death to God isn't the finality that it is to men.

And the way you say "Approve" of what God did with the flood. Like we could do anything about it. We just have to realise that Gods train of thought isn't limited to physical or human limits and for a human to try and second guess God's motives is just a ridiculous idea to entertain.

Sparing all the babies would have meant the whole thing starting up again after the flood. Although looking around today it's getting there anyway...

Answer 3

God's ways and thoughts are not our ways and thoughts. God is far superior to our limited little brains, therefore to trust that God is all knowing and all loving is faith. I do not doubt God and trust that His plan is way too big for me to figure out sometimes. I do know that in the Old Testament that God had certain leaders wipe out certain peoples due to their evilness and in order to keep the Davidian line to Jesus ( being born) pure and that this included women and children. God didn't want paganism mixed with Jews, so that Jesus who was to be born would have a pure blood line. And for the babies and children to be wiped out during the flood, I would think would be the same in that the people were Nephilim (people intermarried with evil) and only Noah and his family were godly. It's not that God isn't powerful enough, it's just that our puny minds are not powerful enough to understand Him. God bless

Answer 4

If the world was as wicked as we read that it was, the Lord was being very merciful in taking back HIS children before they grew up without the choice to know good and to be impacted by perverse (sinful) parents. Consider the fact that right now we have babies 6 months and older being admitted to hospitals for sexually transmitted diseases.

Can you now be more understanding and forgiving of the situation? Do you consider how evil the world is now and what may happen if people do not reverse their courses? You'll find that God intervenes when "people are ripened in iniquity." That's the tipping point, the point of no return.

Answer 5

1st. it wasn't about saving anything.
it was to erase the evil and its creation.and start over.

just like when you set rat traps. they trap anything and everything you didn't pic out the Innocent offspring did you?after all they're all just rats..

just like the cancer running rampant in you're mind and body..would you let it be or remove it?

i understand you're missing the point!!
maybe you`re god would have done different..
if he where God.

2nd my Father isn`t a religion or a belief. He isn't a tradition or a doctrine or a ritual. He Is God.religions don`t have a say in His will..so it matters not if they approve or not...

Answer 6

I don't know

Imagine you live on MARS in a CLOSED environment and BABIES get MENEGTIS and you don't even enough antibiotics to treat everyone.

WELL what DO YOU DO

Accept your FATE and LET GOD take care of it all or do you throw them out the door so others can live.

Free will

Your choice

I expect to see you at an AIDS clinic tommorow tend to AIDS victims

Don't worry, you can't catch those cooties by breathing them.

LET'S SEE you live with AIDS people in your HOME

How about they use your RAZOR

OK

When it strikes YOU and YOUR KIDS what do YOU DO when faced with a totally infectious entity.

Extreme measure call for extreme measure.

Long, long ago they use to QUARANTEEN the whole house.

NO ONE allowed IN and NO ONE ALLOWED OUT

Otherwise EVEYRONE got a killer disease

Now, please do us ALL a favor and MOVE TO THE BRONX and live there and tell us how WONDERFUL LIFE IS

Or maybe COMPTON in LOS ANGELES

That's a nice place too

GO LIVE THERE

Send your kids to the public schools

Go!

Let's see how LIBERAL AND TOLERANT you are!

I'll bet you live in a nice house in a nice white bread neighborood and drive a Lexus mini van.

I lived in Dog Town Los Angeles where 15 year old boys walk down the street with AK47s!

Answer 7

I can understand people thinking that way about some stuff in scripture. I also know that christians them selves do not have all the answers..not every bit of reasoning, whys and wherefores are explained in scripture..but all will be answered one day by God Himself. Some of us just have the faith to know that God knows what He is doing..we think of stuff with human minds..God sees the end from the beginning and knows all the in between.
I wish we could answer all the questions..but if wqe knew everything then we would be as smart as God...and that is not how things work.

Answer 8

I'm a Christian. I don't know why God didn't save those children. I know (from what I've experienced, seen, heard, read, felt and just from what I choose to believe and from what seems 'right' to me) that God is good, loving, powerful and just. If he is those things, he has a good reason for everything that I can't find an answer to. I believe one day everything will be made right, and that we will all know 'why'.

I choose to trust God about what I don't know (instead of arrogantly guessing the answer) based on what I do know about God.

For us to use something that God 'did' or didn't do' to make assumptions about God - we are bringing God down to a human level (or raising ourselves up to God's level) - we are assuming that we can possibly understand God's reasons. God is perfect, and totally powerful, he made us, and he lives in a different realm from us - it is arrogant to assume things about God when we hardly know anything about him, we only know the basics.

It is always our choice whether to believe that God is good or to believe that God is bad, or that he does not exist. There are reasons for, and consequences of, believing anything.

Answer 9

Gee, can't you find a real reason, a scientific reason to disbelieve, not some detail of a story you don't believe anyway?

Genesis 6:11-12
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

Even the children were corrupted by their parents' sin. The apple was not falling far from the tree, was it? Even you reflect the lack of faith of your family, don't you? And your children follow in your footsteps, right?

And yet, here you are in the Religion & Spirituality forum asking questions, hoping someone can give you a reason to believe.

Here is what I think:
You are here asking questions because God is drawing you to Himself.
John 6:44
"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day."

Your questions and your presence in the R&S page indicate that you know there must be more than you believe. Otherwise you would leave us foolish "Christians" to our fools' end.
1 Corinthians 15:19
If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied.

But rather than pitying us, here you are following the drawing of God; seeking your own salvation, your own justification.

Romans 3:10
as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE;
Romans 3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 10:8-13
8 But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART" -- that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."
12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him;
13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."

Answer 10

oh god is powerful enoff he just choses not to do the right thing
and spare the innocent children that makes him an evil god
"the children did no wrong so show me how an infant rejects god and i'll personaly slit the evil little bastards throat and send him to the hell he deserves"

Answer 11

Romans 3:23 for ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God.

The babies are lucky they didn't have to be raised by such wicked parents and learn their wicked ways! If they died before they knew the difference between right and wrong they would have gone to heaven. If they lived they would have become as evil as their parents and would have ended up in hell.

God taking the babies shows His mercy!