RE: A question about the flood myth, baraminology, and Pangaea
February 23, 2016 at 10:03 pm
(This post was last modified: February 23, 2016 at 10:04 pm by Old Baby.)
(February 23, 2016 at 8:45 pm)Cecelia Wrote: Another problem with the flood that I don't see brought up much-- why did all the animals need to die? I've heard someone say that the animals were being bad too. But if that's the case, then why did Noah save two of each? Were there still two good animals of every surviving species after the Ark story? JUST two? and there happened to be seven of every clean animal that were also 'good'. No more, no less. Two of each kind. Exactly two.
Yahweh chose to save Noah and his family because Noah was a good person. Were all the animals being bad too? With God being all powerful, surely there were less messy ways of wiping out all of humanity.
Were there no good children? No good babies? How about unborn children? Surely at least a few people who died during the flood would have been pregnant.
It stretches the imagination to believe the story to be anything more than myth.
Genesis 6 King James Version
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.
6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
7 And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Genesis 6 Old Baby Version
5. And God realized how royally he screwed up by allowing Satan, who he already kicked out of heaven for being evil, to live on his created paradise planet without ever suspecting that the old devil would continue being evil and end up corrupting the naive children he created who didn't know the difference in good and evil.
6. And it pissed God off that his plans were so easily thwarted, and his incompetence grieved his heart.
7. And the Lord said, Rather than accepting responsibility for this clusterfuck, I'll destroy man from the face of the earth; both man and beast and creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; because I'm really pissed off at this game; and the Lord God spiked the controller against the floor.
