If god knew everyone was going to be sinful...?

Question

why did he cause a flood to kill every living thing - apart from noah and family.

why didnt he just let them be like he does today?

what was the purpose of the flood?

Answer 1

He was taking a piss

Answer 2

People choose to not believe in the Flood because it speaks of the judgment of God on sin (2 Peter 3:3–8). (24:38,39, etc) Sedimentary rock is found all over the world. Sedimentary rock is formed in water. Petrified clams in the closed position (found all over the world) testify to their rapid burial while they were still alive, even on top of Mount Everest.

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

I can imagine things were a lot worse than present day, although we're getting there.

Genesis 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

In order to be “filled” with violence, the earth by this time had become filled with people. Universal wickedness requires a universal cause adequate to produce it. Nothing less than a worldwide influx of demonic control seems adequate to explain it.

Genesis 6:12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.

"all flesh". Since “all flesh,” as destroyed in the Flood, included animals (Genesis 7:21), some have suggested that animals also had “corrupted their ways” and were contributing to the worldwide violence. This is doubtful, since animals do not make moral judgments. However, as a part of man’s dominion, they shared in his curse and now in the judgment of the Flood. This verse may possibly imply the development of carnivorous appetites and increasing hostility to man by the animals.

The Bible tells us that the Genesis creation was "good." There was no sin and therefore no suffering or death. Why then did God give Adam and Eve the ability to sin, knowing full well that they would sin and bring death and pain to the human race? Some believe that if Adam had been created without the ability to chose, then he would have been a "robot." A father cannot make his children love him. They choose to love him because they have a free will. Others point out that humanity would never have seen the depth of the love of God, as displayed in the cross, unless Adam had sinned, and that fact could be one reason why God allowed sin to enter the world.

Answer 3

Before the flood the animals act grass, like Isaiah said the lion would eat straw like the bull. Because he had humans to take care of the animals. But mankind became wicked and the animals to survive this time period had to have survival of the fittest so only the strongest could bred,.
The earth had huge dinosaur's this was a huge cataclysmic event. the continents were ripped apart so humans could get away from wicked rulers. So mankind could survive until today. God it says brought the animals to Noah in the ark.
He didn't physically go out and catch them.
It was a very well planned thing. He kept them secure probably in the palm of his hand. Rather than actually riding the waves. But they thought they were on the water.
While he completely changed the earth for a disobedient people to be able to survive. Before the flood the earth was set up for humans to take care of and cultivate the earth.
Now it had to survive on its own. In a hostile enviroment.
Adam and Eve changed God's plans but not his purpose.
His purpose was to have the earth inhabited by righteous humans. One day that purpose will be realized.

Answer 4

You have to look at it in the context of the whole OT, or at least all of Genesis. One of the purposes of Genesis is to explain why man, though made by a perfect God, is imperfect. This is something all religions and mythologies feel they need to explain.

God creates man and woman and as soon as he turns his back they sin. I mean there was only one thing they could do that was forbidden, so they did -that-. This pisses God off, so he changes their lives so that they have to work for a living and have children. Then one of their kids kills another one!

As time goes by, things get worse and worse. So God decides to destroy all humans and start again. But he picks six of the original population to re-seed, and of course as soon as the population grows up to its previous numbers it is no better.

So then God tries something else. He pick a man, Abraham, he tests him to make sure he really believes, then he makes a deal with him to teach God's morality to his people.

But it's always seemed to me that God deliberately made man sinful to begin with. Leaving Adam and Eve alone in the Garden with one beautiful tree they weren't supposed to touch is like leaving a four-year-old alone in a room with a wedding cake. What if Adam and Eve -hadn't- eaten the fruit? There would have been no story! It would have been like The Wizard of Oz without the hurricane. The whole rest of the Bible is about the struggle between Man's good side and Man's bad side.

Personally I believe that much of Genesis wasn't meant to be taken literally. It is 'mythology' in that it uses stories to explain why things are the way they are. Adam and Eve are allegorical figures representing Man and Woman. Even from that view, it's a wonderful, fascinating piece of literature.

From that literary point of view, the flood sounds very much like it was borrowed from the earlier story of Gilgamesh. The best evidence of this is that people who lived in Judea had never SEEN a flood. They only had the Jordan River which is just a trickle, it never floods. But the Sumeranians and Mesopotamians had the Tigress and Euphrates rivers which do flood from time to time.

Answer 5

God's gift of the ability to make wise and right choice permitted misuse of it. However, in the Garden, God fully pre-warned A&E about the consequences of their dabbling in +/- relativity.

The first groups, before the Flood, were more wicked than present humans, in some important ways. Thus it removed most of this "giants" or "titanism" tendency, and the "family of Noah" was more human, more pure, on the other side of the Flood--a kind of more earthly garden redux.

http://www.returnofthenephilim.com/GiantsInHistory.html might be interesting.

Answer 6

Even though we are told that God knows all things, time does not control Him as it does us.

To truly be able to do God's will we have to have freewill otherwise we would not be exercising choice. Therefore we would be more like robots and no use to our heavenly Father.

The purpose of the flood was, we are told to cleanse the earth. Not only were people sinful but they wanted to be equal to God.

The LORD God wants to call out a people for Himself who will willingly serve Him. He tells us in the Scriptures that He has a plan and purpose with the earth - that it should be filled with His glory and righteousness.

That is why we are told to watch for the return of the Lord Jesus in power and glory who is to set up God's kingdom on earth.

The Bible tells it all. Jesus knew his Old Testament scriptures and told those around him that if they had believed Moses, David and the prophets they would have believed him.

We must believe too if we want to serve God.

Answer 7

The flood was because only 8 people were righteous on the earth. It gave right and goodness a chance to survive.

He was tired of rebellion.

The purpose of the flood was to purify a people so His son could come into the world to give hope and save those who would listen.

Answer 8

I always thought how much easier it would have been for God to have blasted those that were sinful and saved all that bother about building an ark for the animals. This has been the cause of much disbelief and controversy since.
A laser gun could have done it with ease.

Same goes for Sodom and Gomorrah. All that messing about with fire and brimstone. Use that laser. Much cleaner.
And all the trouble about those that didn't deserve it. You know the five or so He rekoned were OK.

Answer 9

the reason behind the flood was in. God chose Noah because of the faith Noah had in God. Noah and his family tired to get other people on the boat but that all mocked him. they didn't listen to him

we are not getting away with our sins. we ill all be judged accordingly when the time is right. also, God promised to never flood the earth again (the rainbow).

to destroy sin.

Answer 10

The flood was to wash the soul of mankind in a glorious holy baptism.

Answer 11

God was long suffering back then just as he is today.
He waited and waited before he sent the flood and he warned and warned but nobody listened.
It is the same way today. Jesus is longsuffering and it is not his wish that any perish. But make no mistake, what he said he will do, he will do!