(September 24, 2015 at 9:18 am)Iroscato Wrote:(September 24, 2015 at 9:17 am)Huggy74 Wrote: God closing the door signifies that it not going to be reopened by anyone but God. As for God's "character", he gave the people opportunity for 120 years to get into the ark, how much patience do YOU have?
Which of course justifies murdering every human being - man, woman, child on the planet, along with all the animals as well. I mean...what the hell did the kids and animals do?!
If he wanted to be slightly more merciful, he could have simply given everyone on earth instant heart attacks or some other form of quick death. But noooo...gotta make them spend their last mortal moments in sheer abject terror as they watch their lives and families be destroyed in front of them, shortly before succumbing to a slow death by drowning themselves. You know - as a loving god would.
Didn't the people, in Noah's time, have boats?
It's hard to imagine that no one got in their boats and managed to survive a flood...
Judging by a few civilizations in the Pacific, there are peoples out there who practically live in boats.
And the flood lasted for... what?... 40 days?... didn't they have boat journeys lasting more than that? From one side of the Mediterranean to the other on wind power...?
Was Noah the first human to build a boat?
