I'm always astounded by someone who stubbornly clings to the belief that the flood was literal, as described in the babble, in the face of all of the evidence to the contrary. It's really easy to prove that Egypt and China and other places did not flood, for starters. Sure, someone who is completely brainwashed can just say "goddidit" to all of the objections. God took the trouble to strengthen and pilot the ark, to protect all of the aquatic life, god must have used his star trek transporter to get all of the animals to and from the boat, god put them all in suspended animation and shrunk them down into test tubes, then reanimated and transported them, god got rid of the excess water and desalinated the soil, and then with a wave of his hand, created new full-grown plant life all over the planet.
O . . . K . . . but why bother? Even if you get past the "I screwed up, and I need to kill all of the sinners" genocide angle, why the boat? Why kill all of the (innocent) animals, all the aquatic life, all the birds, all the trees, all the plants? God created billions of galaxies, killing a few people shouldn't be hard. He did it all the time in the OT, for the silliest reasons. He has an Angel of Death he used to kill all of the Egyptian firstborn, give that guy some work. He could have made a statement, he was always talking back then - "you broke my rules, now you're going to die, and I'm going to give the GOOD people the best land on the planet". But no . . . And it still didn't fix the screw up. People kept sinning.
How people can think that this is anything other than an extreme reworking of an older flood tale by Jewish priests to tell the people "god will kill all of us if you don't obey" is astounding.
O . . . K . . . but why bother? Even if you get past the "I screwed up, and I need to kill all of the sinners" genocide angle, why the boat? Why kill all of the (innocent) animals, all the aquatic life, all the birds, all the trees, all the plants? God created billions of galaxies, killing a few people shouldn't be hard. He did it all the time in the OT, for the silliest reasons. He has an Angel of Death he used to kill all of the Egyptian firstborn, give that guy some work. He could have made a statement, he was always talking back then - "you broke my rules, now you're going to die, and I'm going to give the GOOD people the best land on the planet". But no . . . And it still didn't fix the screw up. People kept sinning.
How people can think that this is anything other than an extreme reworking of an older flood tale by Jewish priests to tell the people "god will kill all of us if you don't obey" is astounding.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
