Do you remember why God caused the great flood to wipe out humanity?

Question

Do you see any similarities in between then and now?

I've heard its because people became to tolerant of murder, punished it to lightly, even excused it when it was in service of utopian visions.
The news nowadays is full of stories of suicide bombers, street gang shootings, mothers who drown their children, teenagers going on murderous rampages, the average sentence received for murder is seven years in prison.

Answer 1

In regards to the story about Noah and the Great Flood, God caused the flood because he saw how man’s wickedness on the earth had become.

The story is based on the time when the sons of God lived amongst the children of earth. These so-called sons took the daughters of men and had children. Supposedly these children went on to become the heroes of old. But what God saw was that the inhabitants on the earth had lost sight of him who created everything. He saw the thoughts in the hearts of the people as only being evil.

There isn’t any evidence that there has ever been a world wide flood. The only time the surface of the earth was completely covered by water was during those ages before the land had begun to appear.

It is unfortunate that our society continues to suffer from the influence of primitive concepts of God. “God, who goes on a rampage in the storm; who shake the earth in their wrath and strike down men in their anger; who inflict their judgments of displeasure in times of famine and flood”. This is the god of primitive religion, it is not the loving, saving, and merciful God we talk of today. Such concepts are a relic of the times when men supposed that the universe was under the whims of such an imaginary god.

I assume where you are going with this question is that because of the bad things happening in our time why hasn’t God intervened - the urge to know where and when the divine judgment is to be had, to rid us of this evil.

I’ll place a bet that the thought has been lingering in the minds of people ever since the beginning but as we are slowly learning this isn’t how God functions.

His concerns are spiritual. Ours have been predominately material. God’s intervention is only spiritual. What we want has mostly been for material intervention. As Jesus once said, “To a God-knowing kingdom believer, what does it matter if all things earthly crash?”

The change I believe everyone is looking for is happening as we speak. As God loves the sinner and hates the sin, he sends his spirit to indwell our minds. With a little bit of observance we see how each of us progress from the material to spiritual, from being a beast of this world to being a child of god. From a material point of view one sits and does nothing – complains and points fingers, but from the spiritual point of view this constitutes for some kind of action – to make a change for the better of the whole.

If the desire is to stop all this bad stuff then the question I believe to ask is first what is it that I can do and then second what can we all do.

Answer 2

Oh YES!! I see much violence in the world today just as in Noah's day. People in those days were in pursuit of their own pleasures, just like today! The occult was present back then, it is today. Sexual perversions were prevalent then, they are today. They had disrespect for life, we have that today as well.
Romans 1:26, 27, 32 says of Noah's day - "That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature;  and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error. Although these know full well the righteous decree of God, that those practicing such things are deserving of death, they not only keep on doing them but also consent with those practicing them."

And just as in Noah's day there were 8 people that were saved through that deluge, today there will be those who are saved through the end, through the "great day" of God almighty. (2 Peter 3:11-13)

Answer 3

It is the same.

Man is messing with animals on the gene level.
Man is messing with man on the gene level.
There is hate, ignorance all around.
There is much lack of Love for the Father
The Nephilim are back taking wives (what ufo people call abductions)
The Nephilim are seen again in numbers (ufo's in sky)

You want to know what life was like for Noah, just walk outside. People are confused when they think Noah lived among stone age people. Their society then was more advanced than we are today. Even our brain surgery has not reached their level of expertise then.

Answer 4

A more accurate means of postulating this supposition would be to ask, "Do you remember why the author(s) of Genesis used a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh to make the point that God is omnipotent and if you don't start minding your p's and q's He just might take into His head to off the lot of us.?"

Answers: Yes I remember why Genesis was written. And yes, I can see (as can anyone with an IQ two points higher than a begonia's) that the people then were probably no more glorious examples of humanity than the people of today, and were probably just as in need of that reminder as we; were probably just as blind to their peril as we; and probably did get clobbered somehow, just as we undoubtedly will.

Although I suspect that since the wages of sin is death, it is we ourselves who will be responsible for the offing of humanity. Probably blaming God for our own sinfulness all the while. fallen nature, doncha know? Blaming everyone and everything save ourselves goes with that territory.

And your point is.....?

Answer 5

Hmm we're supposed to get 6 inches of rain here today should I start building an ark and put two of every animal on it to the point that it would sink under the massive capacity of weight?

Answer 6

I remember why Judean and Israelite authors living 1500 years after flood *thought* that God sent the flood...

Answer 7

Yep, LOTS of similarities! Only it's worse now because of technology and the fact there are more people.

Answer 8

Which time

Answer 9

Biblically, it was because the sons of god were breeding with human women.

Answer 10

None of the accounts I've seen explain it thouroughly---just watered down versions.