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he is supposed to have got noah to build a ark and then flooded the earth.
humans and animals died so does it mean he murdered them and if so why do we pray to him

2007-09-16 04:37:10 · 33 answers · asked by alan t 3 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

33 answers

We pray for our safety in life, and if we sin, then it's hell with us.

What I do know is that the earth at that time was full of sinners, so to start again he got a male and a female of every creature and made them survive. If you could think of it as "baptising" the earth. All the sinners were gone by the end of the flood, ready to start again.

My answer would be yes, he did kill our race once.

2007-09-16 04:45:38 · answer #1 · answered by Dibship 2 · 0 2

Yes or no just as you like it is only a story anyway probably based in the story of Gilgamesh which in turn is probably an account of a local but probably wide spread flood when some character saved his family and animals in a boat. Don't forget that people at that time had no concept of how enormous the earth was and a wide spread flood could well seem like the whole of the world was flooded and possibly the whole of their world was.

2007-09-16 05:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0 0

Satan is the murderer and was a murderer from the beginning. The Flood of Noah was a result of God's holy, righteous and just judgement on a wicked and sinful world. Since God created it all, He owns it all and can do whatever He wants with what He has created. Those killed in the Flood could've accepted God's grace and mercy and gone on the ark with the others but they chose not to do so.
We pray to God in order to communicate with Him. If you have a friend with whom you never communicate, how long would that friendship last?

2007-09-16 04:43:31 · answer #3 · answered by utuseclocal483 5 · 1 2

Noah's ark is a story told by a rather primitive people who saw God through the lens of their own culture, to explain natural disaster/disasters.

When floods happen, people and animals always die. Does that mean God is a murderer?

2007-09-16 04:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by Acorn 7 · 3 1

The bible is full of accounts of slaughter and genocide, either carried out directly by god or on his explicit orders. There is one delightful scene where he turns his wrath on the Israelites because they spared the women and children of a city he'd told them to wipe out! What about the slaughter of the first born in Egypt? These were children he was killing! Sometimes he kills for the most trivial reasons. And the 'good news' that Xtians bang on about is that he is coming again to kill most of the population of the earth.
The bible god is a drooling, violent psychopath. No apologist can deny that if they read their own scriptures!

2007-09-16 05:05:05 · answer #5 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 0 0

God created everything, and still create everything too.
God, only God have the right to make people and other creatures to die, not at the time of Noah's flood only but always.
This is own to God, Murders are who do this action without any permission from God.
So, God never been a murder, but people, and other creatures only.

2007-09-16 04:52:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

I started to try to answer this, but even if I did you would just try to find another point to condemn God. Try this sometimes, get on an airline and when it levels off see if you can see a single man or his works. This will show the insignificance of your railing against God trying to cover up not acknowledging your own sins.

2007-09-16 04:49:48 · answer #7 · answered by Bug YA 2 · 0 0

Hmm, never thought of it that way. I thought that according to the story, it was the sins of the people of earth that compounded and lead up to the devastating effects, including the flood, and since Noah and his family were the only ones worthy of being saved, they, in addition to one of every species, were spared; and since it was the sins of man that brought about the retaliation of earth, they were the ones punished for their actions. Kind of like global warming today, collectively speaking.

2007-09-16 04:46:06 · answer #8 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 5 0

If he existed yes, in the Bible (the 'Good Book', he slaughters thousands, many for unjust reasons, such as children of Egypt, the decendents of many races and so on.
As Richard Dawkins put it:

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.

2007-09-16 06:43:05 · answer #9 · answered by James W 3 · 0 1

When sin is allowed to go unchecked it threatens to pollute everything around it. Which is why he will not allow sin to continue forever and why sometimes drastic measures are necessary. But this judgement can only come from God alone who is the only Holy and Righteous judge. The people who act so outraged by God's so called inustice in many instances are struggling with thier own sexual identity and attacking God seems to be their outlet.

2007-09-16 05:15:41 · answer #10 · answered by Edward J 6 · 0 2

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