Is it ironic that God tried to solve "world violence" in Genesis by killing everything on the planet?

Question

Ryan - thanks for showing that the Judeo-Christian god is not infallible.

Irish, your god sounds like my 5 year old nephew.

Answer 1

What? We can't stamp out violence with violence? What about the great mission we've accomplished in Iraq?

Answer 2

God didn't destroy everything on the planet. There is a naturally occuring explanation for this. Planet X, aka. Niburu orbits our sun once every 3600 years. When this planet comes close enought to earth, its gravity manipulates the earth like a big magnet getting close to a small one. The earth alignes with Niburu in the same way. This alignment creates destruction on earth. It triggers a pole shift, which intern melts the ice caps that have been relocated to a climate that doesn't sustain ice buildup. The new poles begin to recollect ice and form new Ice caps. So you see, when the poles shifted, the seas rose high due to melting ice. So the earth was flooded, not completely covered but much of it was. Noah was not the only one to build and arc, and it wasn't god who told them to do so. The informers are our brothers and sisters in outer space. This scenario is about to happen again very soon. If you are intellegent you will begin your preperations to survive the most horrible disasters the current world has ever seen. If you think that the Government is going to warn you then you deserve to die. The government has prepared its own underground shelters and is fully aware that this event will take place. When the time comes they will do their best to make sure they stay on top of the food chain. You would be wise to get out of the city. Stay far away from the seas and bodies of water. Store enough food and water to sustain yourselves for 2 years. Don't live in low sea level areas, these will be the first to be covered by the sea. Our leaders and the ones who tell them what to do, have amazing technology that we are not priveledged enough to know about. These are things that could be used for the greater good but instead they are used for secret warfare and super weapons. I think that Niburu is a blessing in discuise. We need a do over here on planet earth. Maybe after the destruction is all over, the few people that have survived will build a beautiful world, one we could have today if we were to join hands and stand up for ourselves, instead of being cattle to a tyrant government.

Answer 3

God did no longer attempt to remedy international violence as you mistakenly state Balaam. God judged wicked people who deserved to be punished. And he will decide wicked men back quickly... 2 Peter 3:3-7 understanding this commonplace, that there shall come interior the final days scoffers, strolling after their own lusts, And announcing, the place is the promise of his coming? for because of the fact the fathers fell asleep, all issues proceed as they have been from the initiating of the introduction. For this they willingly are blind to, that via the be conscious of God the heavens have been of previous, and the earth status out of the water and interior the water: wherein the international that then became, being overflowed with water, perished: however the heavens and the earth, which at the instant are, via an analogous be conscious are saved in keep, reserved unto hearth against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. Balaam, you extra effective than maximum right here qualify as a scoffer and an ungodly guy. i'm no longer judging you. i'm purely repeating what you so proudly proclaim. i particularly wish you will quit mocking God and are available to Christ. He loves you and needs you to repent with a view to come again into his kingdom. Come to Christ

Answer 4

No, it is ironic that God gave the people time to turn to him so their lives could be spared but the dispensation of GRACE had ended and since people were polluted to the core and did nothing but evil in every way, the dispensation of Judgment had come to cleanse the earth and now 5000 years later we have been under the dispensation of GRACE again that was issued when Christ Jesus was born in a manger, and this dispensation is again about to end and the earth will once again be cleanse from it's evil and the people who refuse to turn to God but this time, instead of a flood, the world will be cleansed by fire. A man for seven years will cause all to receive a mark in order to buy or sell but those who receive it shall enter into this time of judgment. Want to know more? Go to trumpetmin.org Hope this helps you.

Answer 5

Genesis 6:4 tells of the sons of God mating with the daughters of man. The offspring became heroes and caused a lot of humans to be troublesome...sinners so to speak. So God had to do what he thought best to rid the human population of the seed of the "sons of God" so hence the flood. It was not "world violence" that God "killed everything on the planet".

Answer 6

I'm guessing right about now the believers are wishing the man upstairs hadn't given you the gift of gab after all!

To quote P.J. O'Rourke: "making fun of born-again christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope."

"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you."
— George Carlin

"We preach peace, forgiveness, tolerance and love. We practice vengeance, persecution, hatred and domination. My personal beliefs are supported and validated by my convictions.
Oh, and never forget .... my religion is truth, yours is a lie."
— Religion, paraphrased

Answer 7

Nope, it isn't ironic. It's just like the death penalty today. No one who has suffered it has ever killed another person.

Romans 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, 4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.

Answer 8

Yes.

Apparently the authors of the Bible were oblivious to irony in the modern sense. Go figure.

I also enjoy the part where God hardens Pharaoh's heart so that he decrees the death of the Hebrew firstborn, in retaliation for which God sends the Angel of Death to slay the Egyptian firstborn! Of course, those are just relatively isolated local infanticides.

Answer 9

My good fellow, that was not world violence. What the Bible describes ios the wickedness of man. Man simply did not want to follow God and in fact did things exactly contrary to God's wishes. They purposely chose to disobey, murder, kill, fornicate etc. Thus God killed them in His wrath because his creation, whom He created in his own image was making a mockery out of him in front of satan.

But lets not forget, God is gracious. He told Noah to build an ark and tell the whole world about the impending doom. Noah said that the flood was going to come for a 120 years but no one listened, they mocked him instead. God is not responsible for man's disobdience and foolishness. God is God, but He still gave man 120 years to change and get in to the ark for free only for himself to be saved. In the end only the 8 member of his immediate family were there

So my friend, nothing is ironic. Rather it is good to ponder on God's mercies and his lovingkindess for keeping us all alive, considering who He is and what we are.

P.S. God promised that He would never destroy the earth by water ever again, but in the prophetic books destruction is mentioned. If water is cancelled out, you go it, the next method is fire.

Answer 10

Genesis 6:5 -- The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually.