Christians: Does it feel a little uncomfortable justifying your god drowning infants in Genesis 7?

Question

Do you go around justifying the drowning of infants often?

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Do people look at you weird when you justify the drowning of infants?

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Do you find it difficult to convince people to worship a god who drowned infants?

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Is this why you believe in baptism for infants?

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No, its a Christian truth, not a pagan's fairy tale.

Wouldn't it be nice if christians would learn to read so they'd know what questions they've been asked?

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Answer 1

Oh, that's like 8 paragraphs in. Christians don't read that far in the bible, silly.

Answer 2

God is sovereign. That means He is the judge. God does not look on death as necessarily a bad thing. When infants died by drowning in Genesis 7, it is because a whole race of people were completely corrupt, would not repent, and would continue to teach their children and therefore each following generation to be more and more evil and corrupt. The way you stamp out a vermin or a plague is to destroy it. Taking those babies in their infant state was rescuing them from evil and corruption. It was a merciful thing God did, not a bad thing.

There is no infant baptism in the bible. It always takes place by immersion in deep water which WOULD drown infants. Small children are innocent and not capable of making a decision to accept Christ or to repent. Sprinkling is not the baptism of Jesus, although other Christians would dispute that because infant baptism is supposedly saving people from the sin of Adam. I do not believe people are born in sin, I believe they inherited death and mortality from Adam, not his sin. I believe all men are capable of choosing good or evil.

Answer 3

I do not have to justify God for anything that happens or has happened in the past. He is God and we are not. People have never looked at me weird for anything. i do not try to "convince" anyone because only the Lord can remove your spiritual blinders. I hope one understands how much Jesus loves them, but whether you receive or reject has zero impact on the strength and reality of my faith in God. If you desire to go to hell, then by all means I won't hold you back. But if you want to go to heaven, I will help lead you the way. I do not find it difficult to worship the Lord in any circumstance. But what is hard to understand is God's silence in not zapping you and putting you out of "our" misery! But God loves you, every hateful bone...and soon His silence will be heard, but quite loud as His anger / wrath has been building up and will finally be unleashed.

Answer 4

Are you saying that God has ordered the drowning of ALL infants or are you talking about Noah's flood where the infants were part of an evil, depraved society that was beyond saving and God had no option but to destroy them?

I guess you won't be too happy about Sodom and Gomorrah either, because the wicked there, children and infants included, got burnt alive.

People tend to assume that children are innocent, even if their parents are doing bad things.

The assumption is unfounded. For example, Palestinian Muslim children are officially taught in grammar school to hate their Jewish neighbors.

They are so well indoctrinated that some of them give up their lives in suicide bombings as children.

Corruption literally does breed corruption.

We are all sinners and God has proclaimed the death sentence upon the whole of humanity.

We will all die because we have broken God's Law.

Every one of us is waiting on death's row.

Instead of standing in moral judgment over Almighty God, come down from your throne and judge yourself according to the Law of God.

You will find that you have a multitude of sins and you therefore are not in a position to point your holier-than-thou finger at another sinner, let alone a holy God.

But God loved us so much that he sent his only son and Jesus was punished on the cross as if he had lived our lives and because Christ took our punishment, God will welcome us as if we had lived the pure life of Jesus.

We don't deserve it, but that was what he did for us!

Answer 5

Does it feel a little redundant re-posting this same question that you also posted last week? What happened...you got too many logical answers that refuted your false beliefs, so you thought you'd try again?

I remember because I responded to last week's question too. Why are you so bitter and hateful to God?

EDIT: If you're referring to me about learning to read to know which questions have been asked, I know you asked this question last week because as I stated, I remember responding to it, and I know you deleted it. You also asked some questions that insinuated Christians were connected to the kkk (I remember those because you spelled Christian as "kkkristian"), and you deleted those too.

Why would you delete all those spiteful questions if you felt so justified in posting them in the first place? Do you get so many logical answers from people standing up for God that it just grates on your nerves or something?

I don't understand why you are so full of hate, and it's not my place to, but it doesn't seem to be helping your life. But only you would know that for sure. Have you sought counseling from a therapist or someone you could talk to? Even if it's for nothing more than berating Christians and God in a controlled setting. Or you can keep spewing at us here on the forum if that's what works for you. Have a good day anyway!

P.S. Oh, forgot to mention, where I worship, we (Christians) don't believe in baptizing infants. We only baptize people who are old enough and mature enough to understand Jesus is God's son and He did for our sins. They have to be making the decision of their own free will. Babies can't do that.

Answer 6

Do you ALWAYS go around tearing down straw men? Did you stay up all night trying to figure out a way to demonstrate your ignorance of the facts?

You judge God based on a total lack of understanding of anything.

You can either re-define God based on your own misconceptions of the Bible, or you can try to understand the Bible based on what God says about Himself.

Here's a few facts about God as revealed in the Scriptures:
First, God is holy. That simply means that He can not tolerate sin. He has zero tolerance for the rebellion and anarchy that sin results in. It is in His nature.

Second, God is righteous, which means that God has never violated His own nature.

Third, God is Love, meaning that He makes His choices based on the greatest good for the most people.

Now, if you take these aspects about God, and re-read the Scripture, then you must come to the conclusion that if God, who is Love, had to destroy the entire population of earth (except for one family), then the wickedness must be so extremely wicked, that God had no other choice.

My question for YOU is, considering that God loves you so much that He sent His Son to take the penalty for YOUR sins (ie crimes against God), now that the ball is in your court, what will you do? Will you accept God's Love? Or will you choose to face His Judgement, knowing full well that you deserve it, and also knowing full well you don't need to face God's Judgement because of Jesus' sacrifice for you? The choice is up to you now.

Answer 7

You can not understand the Bible which is God's holy word, as an unbeliever. Before you can understand, you must believe and have faith in God almighty.! Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." Please stop criticising things that you have no comprehension of....In answer to your question, NO it does not make me "uncomfortable"

Answer 8

i am not christian but i studied at a christian university. the bible was written using far fetched metaphors (tall tales) because it was easier to remember when telling the stories, plus it kept people's attention. and it was easier to understand. the idea that god drowned infants may or may not be accurate, but there's no way to really know for sure. i can safely say, however, that it conveys a message that is easily understood by everyone of the christian faith.

this is a really good question. i wish, however, that you weren't being sarcastic.

Answer 9

No, not really. God gave them life, so He has the right to take it away. Can you give life, or any human for that matter. Besides, maybe God was doing them a favor. Maybe they would have grown up to be jerks that deserved to burn in hell...not anymore. You probably won't like this answer, but it's not really our job to understand why God does certain thing.

Also, I think the folks who wrote the bible were probably smart enough to forsee someone like yourself asking a question like this...and yet they didn't delete that part of the story....go figure.

Answer 10

what's up with you? Think you can harm God? Know what, in spite of all your anger, He still loves you and want you to be saved and come to life in Him through Jesus.

No, I will not justify it,. It is His world and His creation and He gave us His commandments and laws to live by. so, if we violate, we bear the consequences. Is that so hard to understand?
And that was not the only time children died...read the Bible.
God made it very clear that He has two sides: a God of love and mercy [to those who obey and follow Him] and a God of wrath [to those who reject and disobey]
Doesn't matter what you say or think, that is who God is and neither you or anybody else can change that. Parents have the responsibility to rear the children in the fear of the Lord [which is the beginning of wisdom, by the way!] See what God says in Exodus 20 about the sins of the fathers.........

Your stiff-neck will bring you nowhere with God. HE Is God!

Answer 11

God had Noah to warn the people for 100 some odd years to get on the boat and that a flood was coming.Sadly many didn't heed to the warning thus many died. It is exactly what is going on now many of us are telling people to repent of their sins, call upon the name of Jesus and ask him to be the Lord of your life.Hell is waiting for those who don't repent and call upon the name of Jesus. God didn't drown those people and he doesn't send people to Hell they do it to themselves. There is still hope for people who have died and not heard of God whom gave his son for the sins of the world so that whom may call on him is redeemed . Lean not to your own understanding and God is good. God speed to you all.