Could a "perfect god" screw up his first try at Creation badly enough to require its destruction in a flood?

Question

Doesn't this contradict the concept of infallibility?

Answer 1

Yes, it does. Or maybe God is malevolent, and can justify atrocities under pretentious mishaps, which means he is neither good nor infallible.

If I create children for the sole purpose of drowning them when they hit their teenage years, does that make me a good being because I at least made them first, even though I knew I'd off them later?

More likely, religious authors placed their own emotions into the gods they created and transmitted using culture.

I still can't see the logic of those who consider the bible infallible and Yahweh as benevolent.

Answer 2

First try? Evidently he needed several tries given that there were no less than five extinction level events with the most recent being K-T which wiped out the dinosaurs. Some believe there may have been as many as 20! The 'flood' was probably born of legend, and don't forget this god supposedly promised never to do it again by creating a new law of physics whereby light could be separated into a rainbow. Before that the world must have been black and white since light couldn't have separated and reflected to create the wealth of colors we see now. In addition, it must really piss him off that now the rainbow is used as a symbol of pride in certain circles that practice lifestyles he's not supposed to condone.

ELEs must be the Abrahamic god's version of white-out.

Answer 3

But wait! Portions of the angelic community rebelled long before the flood, so does this mean that we're on the 3rd try?

If the flood is a metaphor what does it say about god? I'd read it as I'll leave you alone knowing that inattention is bound to let you run rampant and then visit judgment on not only you but every living thing. After this I'll repent and change the laws of physics?

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure man has continued to screw up, on even grander scales, on a perennial basis since the alleged era before the flood.

So then, why hasn't god continued to use this means of "starting over" since the flaw in the creation can't be blamed on the creator (apparently ... tell a judge the bridge in MN falling wasn't the fault of its creator!)?

Answer 5

The first try we even know about. What if he's been stumbling around the universe from solar system to solar system trying to make the perfect little world, but keeps ******* it up.

The fact is the flood myth is stolen from early Mesopatima and Sumerian storys. It's all a big lie

Answer 6

If God is so infallable, why would he create you when he knew you would be tearin him down all day long?

To all those who say "God didn't mess up, man did", you're full of crap.

If Ford turned out 100,000 cars and 50 exploded spontaneously, are people going to think that the CEO of Ford is perfect, or even ingenious. No. He's a dipsh!t that shouldn't have the reigns of anything.

So God made human beings, in his image mind you, and they kill, rape, mame, pillage, burn, ransack , and destroy and we still think that the one responsible for all this, his creation, in infallable.

Answer 7

If that's one's interpretation of the bible , then yes. Thank God most believers realize the flood was a metaphor. Strictly symbolic.

Answer 8

Not a perfect God, but the one in Genesis apparently responded that way.
Derek B: we who were allegedly created in the image of God. Think about it.

Answer 9

The Flood Story is based on the Epic of Gilgamesh.

***TO "God Bless Pope" - Go fly a kite, Hitler Boy!

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Answer 10

No, your mistaken in what it says.

It is possible to do everything perfectly, and even to plan for something like that, but still have regret at it. to show great remorse at it.


which makes you question why a perfect god has emotions at all?! anger, jealousy, these are all human flaws.