Do Christians stop to think that God's great flood murdered innocent babies and mentally handicapped people?

Question

Even the innocent animals, who were not lucky enough to get onto the ark, were murdered.
How could any decent human being worship such a god?
Is anyone silly enough to dismiss this as being caused,somehow, by man, or the work of some silly devil?---Both of whom were "created" by their god. ---So the buck stops with him.

Fireball----If you belive it's as simple and humane as all that, why don't you offer yourself as a substitute for one of these children for that little old millennium and just wait for that "reserection"?
If you're so certain it's coming, wh not do a good deed while you wait?
These innocents didn't go strait to heaven. They first struggled and gasped for air to breathe as they panicked and felt like they were going to explode, as they drowned violently.

Since these people were innocent, why did they need another chance? ---Another chance to do what?

JED----Where do you get that we should not judge God by human standards. What other standards do we have? And are these not the same standards used in the Bible to "enlighten" us with these strange stories?

BTW---I have read both Testaments of the Bible in college and received an 'A' in the course. Can you say the same?
I have also researched the history of these books, and I graduated college with highest honors.---Can you trump that?

BUZZINGKIDDER---It's not "just" a story. It's one of the main stories in a book that has caused millions of people to kill and be killed. These murders are continuing as we write these comments.

MOZBABE---How does an innocent baby or a mentally retarded,or mentally disturbed person defy your God? ---How does he deny him?--What kind of "sins" do they commit?
Don't you "punish" people to teach them a lesson?---What lesson can be learned by a dead person?
You need to ask your god for the other half of your wit

FIRE_GIRL_07---You mean to say that only two of each kind of animal was not "bad"? --- And all the newborn babies were "bad"?---And the crazy people?
Your "faith" may go on forever, but I'm afraid, your brain is long gone.

GERRY---Are you so sure they will findall that these poor victems will be comforted by being called "martyrs"?
If your sure, why don't you offer change places with them.
But as a matter of fair play, you should first go through the horror of drowning, because these people don't go straight to heaven like you suggest. They must first take that little Godly dunk.

GERRY---Are you so sure that all these poor victems will be comforted by being called "martyrs"?
If your sure, why don't you offer to change places with them?
But as a matter of fair play, you should first go through the horror of drowning, because these people don't go straight to heaven like you suggest. They must first take that little Godly dunk.

Bon voyage.

PAUL CYP---Im sure these poor animals will be filled with joy when you tell them tht they were not murdered. They were only drowned.
Your god gave you the standards and "free will" to choose between right and wrong , and you decide that innocents who are killed by this god are fair game for him to dump in the drink?
I wonder if he stands by and watches them struggle, just for kicks.
Must be great that you can cause all that horror and you will not be condemned for killing them.
Do those same rules apply to you when you make a baby? Do you get to drown it to teach your other children a lesson?

MOZBABE---So that's how it is in your world?---If someone doesn't "love" his neighbor; -- "somebody should kill the dirty bas tard for not "loving" enough".

TWILA G----You make your god seem like a helpless exicutioner.
Who's running the show?
Strange how others are held accountable for the mistakes this "infallible" god makes with his "creations".
What a coward you are. You wont even call him on the violations of the rules he has taught to you to determine right from wrong.
Your fear of him has short- circuited your capacity to reason.
Why don't you muster the courage to stand up for the humane treatment of inocents?---Shame on you.

BECCA----You're claiming to know things that no human being could possibly know.---Be honest wih yourself for your God's sake.--You DON"T know where these innocent victems went, or if they went anywhere.Do you think you're part of God's management team? How arrogant you must be.
You obviously need to start a REAL search for truth, and stop pretending that you have already earned sole ownership of it.

Your "beliefs" are not relevant to anything important to anybody. If you choose to believe that you're 12 feet tall, it would be unwise for you to start shopping for much bigger clothes.
Come back to earth, and keep trying to figure it out. You failed your first exam.

BTW-- where did you get the idea that"Jesus did the flood"?

Answer 1

MAN IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS OWN HOUSEHOLD

At 427 years after the flood, Abraham gets the Promised Land covenant.
Abraham is surrounded by land pirates. Gen.13:2; Riches no good to him.
About 438 years after the flood, angels did visit Sodom and Gomorrah, there was not even 10 persons having a land law, a man law and for sure no God law, so that the angels had no rights on soil that is supposed to belong to God. Trespassers are trespassers. Matt.6:9-13;
If every man knows how he wants visitors to act on his property, he knows how to act on property that belongs to God, Moses calls 603,550 heirs to the Promised Land out of Egypt to go into the Promised Land with a land law, a man law and a God law or a law for everything

Answer 2

"where is God when innocent babies people are murdered?" He certainly isn't absent, nor does he find pleasure in what happened. He may have morally sufficient reasons for allowing it that we just do not know. Just because we do not know the reason does not automatically mean that God doesn't have one. We simply don't have that much knowledge. "I believe there is a God I'm not an atheist but why do we have to burn in eternal hell for seeking other religions out. " People go to hell for their sins, not for the reason you gave. "loving all Gods because they are in fact the same God?" This is a pretty ignorant statement. All one has to do is study each religion to see how fundamentally different each god is from one another.

Answer 3

Well, have you ever stopped to think that if you do believe that God did send a flood to kill these people, then He is indeed the only God? And that these people chose to deny Him? So why should you question God when He punishes? Have you ever stopped to think how much it must have hurt him to do so? And that He did this because he is Righteous and the people sinned? Sin actually do mean they were doing WRONG things, breaking laws, hurting each other, not loving one another.

Answer 4

One drunken man and his sons were the only things left worth saving according to the story. Even his daughter didn't make the cut.

Animals don't count, to Abrahamics they don't have sould. Babies, the mentally infirm, everyone other than Noah and his SONS (yes, I keep stressing that since it is one of the prime examples of misogeny in the bible) just weren't good enough. Kinda makes their god seem like inspector #3, with a hangover.

Answer 5

Yes God did, He knew what was going to happen, and the children and mental went to Heaven afterwards, but the adults and others who had a lot of chances to belive went to hell.

Jesus did the flood because people wern't acting right, theres going to be something like that, we just don't know when.

be ready,

-becca <3

Answer 6

Have you stopped to think of the millions that are dieing each day because we prefer to buy fancy cars, homes larger that we need, take to many vacations; when all of that money could be sent to help all the people on earth NOW? Also to convince them to become Christian? God is God and he took care of any Innocent soles then, as he dose now. What are you doing TODAY?

Answer 7

God wasn't greatly concerned with the welfare of children, and sure church folks do know about that; but getting into heaven is more important, is what they're telling me.

There are many other situations in the Bible where innocent people suffered and died during one of God's tantrums, but getting into heaven is a much bigger issue. And I'm sure all the church folks will back me up on that.

Answer 8

You have two major errors here. First, animals cannot be murdered. The term "murder" applies to humans alone. Secondly, God cannot murder. God has absolute authority over life and death. Murder consists of a human being taking upon himself an authority that belongs to God alone.

Answer 9

God did it becuase they were bad people, he saved who deserved to be saved, we don't know what goes on in an animals head, they could be good or bad too, and God has a reason for everything, and we're humans cannot yet understyand it, my faith will live on forever

Answer 10

But Noah did save the Dinosaurs!
That is why they are able to hide in the forest in Oregon with Bigfoot.