According to Genesis 6,7, this 'god' drowned all the babies in the world during what amounts to a godly temper tantrum.
I'm just not impressed with those kinds of cosmic credentials. No true God would behave in such a way, yet this bible requires me to believe that one did.
Not going to happen. If I'm to worship a God, it had better be one I can respect.
2007-06-13 08:39:04 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It was the Etch-a-Scetch end of the world. My daughter has more self control than that and she's almost 4.
2007-06-13 08:42:06 · answer #1 · answered by lupinesidhe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God's reason for sending the flood was to destroy all the earth's wickedness. It wasn't just babies as you stated, it was wickedness as a whole. Temper tantrum is a strange way to state that. I don't think it matters to God whether you are impressed with his "cosmic credentials". I also don't think your parents care whether you like what they do for a living. The Bible doesn't require anyone to do or believe anything. Look around at the world we live in. If living by the Bible were a requirement, like you say, it would look a lot different.
2007-06-13 08:53:41 · answer #2 · answered by Wendy B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of those for some, one of them for others. Investigate the things that you disagree with--you may be right and there are many people who think the meaning of the Bible is something more reasonable. I don't agree with everything the President and Congress of the USA does, yet I remain loyal to the USA. As to Hell--I rely on the mercy of God of which I have heard encouraging things. I am trying to live a good life because that is all I can do, eh.
2016-05-19 03:13:45 · answer #3 · answered by darlene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was this same attitude of man thinking that he knows better than God that made God destroy the wickedness, lawlessness and evil in the flood of Noah.
God is a Holy God and sin does not flourish in His sight. You do not understand the Bible, God's Word and you do not understand God. God is the only one you know that can tell you that He brought you into the world and He can take you out. He holds your very breath in His hand. The earth is His and all that is in it. He owns it all. He just gave man dominion until He returns. There is only One God and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. You do not understand the Bible.
2007-06-13 08:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So many people choose their religion/beliefs based on what they would like to be true. They look for a god that meets their hopeful definition. What they should be doing instead is to seek to find out what is actually true. Just because God isn't exactly what you would have created Him to be doesn't mean that you should believe a lie instead of the truth.
2007-06-13 08:47:09 · answer #5 · answered by nspird 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we are supposed to just have battered wives' syndrome and just focus on the times when he does things that are nice for us.
How could babies hear or heed warnings of imminent annihilation?
How could they have drowned to death without suffering? Oh, that's right your same answer as to everything else, because of magic---Did god use that same magic which alleviates the terror pain and suffering of drowning on the Katrina victims? Why or why not?
2007-06-13 08:51:18 · answer #6 · answered by elgüero 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God warned the people that the flood was coming, but they didn't listen. God probably didn't allow them to suffer when they died. He knew the babies would end up in the Kingdom of Heaven with Him.
2007-06-13 08:42:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed. The god of the bible is clearly modelled on a bronze age tyrant, a kind of Saddam of his day, why would anyone wish to worship something like that no matter how powerful they were.
2007-06-13 08:41:58 · answer #8 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because the bible is a joke. Its just fiction. The bible is no different than reading anything by Ernest Hemingway or Shakespeare or Stephen King, its just fiction.
2007-06-13 08:50:03 · answer #9 · answered by J-Far 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I sometimes struggle with those issues but the bottom line is that He's the only God we've got and He also does a lot of good.
2007-06-13 08:43:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋