Since there was no bible or commandments how did these people know they were sinning? Shouldn't people know they are doing wrong before you kill them all?
2007-11-20 07:39:32 · 41 answers · asked by Gawdless Heathen 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Sorry but Noah telling me that the world is gonna be flooded is not proof. Besides how did Noah travel the entire earth to spread his message?
2007-11-20 07:44:11 · update #1
thats because people back then had plots that dont make sense now. back in the superstitious days, any plot that featured god was believed. now we can see through bad plots and inconsistencies with characters and endings.
a parent wouldnt punish a child if the rules were not known, unless the parent was an idiot. so either god isnt real and its all made up, or god isnt so omnipotent after all.
the clues that mad made god up are obvious. too many human emotions. a god wouldnt have all the weaknesses of character that we humans have. the 7 sins for example, seems god has most of those things going on.
a loving god wouldnt set up the followers blindly. a parent helps the child grow into a well balanced adult, not throwing them into a fire for not listening.
is god a scientist who tests lab rats, then kills them if they dont have a favorable outcome? we all say thats wrong. but no christian thinks god is bad, only good for all this misery. its a man made con to trap the insecure of mind. pay out your money and be saved...
its man made ********. sorry if any of you have fallen for it, but even among all that blind faith, you know somethings not right. but the emperors new clothes is firmly happening to you. too afraid to voice your true feelings because everyone you know will view you as a fool. when its they who are the foolish. classic.
amen to free thinkers who arent afraid of going solo through life.
2007-11-20 07:55:33 · answer #1 · answered by SAINT G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GOD didn't flood anything. But there likely were several floods around the same time, and people made up a story about them. While I'm sure God COULD make a worldwide flood, it doesn't seem very logical, does it? If he were really out to murder (oh, wait, when God does it it's called something like "call them back to Heaven") the whole population of the world, there's many many ways of doing so that don't suspend the laws of physics he created. A global flood would take QUINTILLIONS of litres of water, not to mention making either freshwater fish or seawater fish die. (Plus, who exactly were Noah's children repopulating the world with? There'd be a "Founder's Effect" if EVERYBODY had the same six ancestors.) Luckily only a very few people take the Bible literally, yet a substantial number of people on Y!A do, or say they do.
2016-05-24 08:36:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are suppose to know in their hearts when their sinning. If they do it a lot, purposefully, then they get use to it and so the guilt feels less. So the people in Noah's time were warned, if not by a flat out commandment but in their hearts. When Noah did his preaching it could have caused incredulous gossip and so word would have gotten around. Assuming the Flood happened as told in the bible of course
2007-11-20 07:57:35 · answer #3 · answered by the1infamousme 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is what happens when the parables of the Bible are taken literally. The stories of the Bible are meant to teach you something about how to live your life. But people always want to lessen their own responsibilities by scrutinizing the crap out of the Bible until they drain all the meaning out of it. The purpose of reading the Bible is to apply the lessons in it to your own life in order to help you to be a better person, not to make you wonder wether or not the things in it actually happened.
Don't kid yourself, the people of the Old Testament days knew they had it coming, they basically begged God to be vengeful and merciless in judging their sins. Jesus later walked the earth to spread God's true message...LOVE, oh yeah and forgiveness.
2007-11-20 07:55:51 · answer #4 · answered by little miss smarty pants 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He did; nobody listened. They ignored the warnings that Noah gave them because they were so convinced that he was just some lunatic who didn't know what he was talking about. They were perfectly content continuing on with their lives because the only warnings they were given were by a man they presumed to have no credibility.
2007-11-20 08:15:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He let Noah preach to them for 120 years prior to the flood, warning them. Enough time for you?
2007-11-20 08:32:48 · answer #6 · answered by Steve Amato 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he had caused it, yeah. It was a natural cosmic phenomena and he took credit for it. It wasn't about sin. Sin didn't even exist then. It only exists now in the minds of people.
2007-11-20 11:27:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The commandments of God the Father are written in the hearts of all his children, they are not writtrn on stone.
The serpent caused the flood not God the Father, the Holy Spirit warned Noah's of the flood, and God the Father caused the earth to swallow up the flood.
Read Revelation 12, and the truth shall make you free.
2007-11-20 07:45:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
Those people were warned so many times about the flood, but they just laughed and told Noah he was mad. Noah warned then too!
Atheists today are like the ones killed in the floods back then!
We warn them, but they just laugh at us and tell us we are mad. That we believe in a God that doesn't exist.
The way they are going...well, lets just say I'm praying for them!
2007-11-20 07:48:59 · answer #9 · answered by Purity 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
People knew they were sinning. Just as they know today. People who have never heard the Word of God know instinctively the difference between right and wrong. Even in primitive societies, people know.
Sending you a smile to help pick up your day!
2007-11-20 07:43:21 · answer #10 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋