GodsChild Wrote:Man's fall was so horrible that God in His love for man was sorrowful that He created man, He knew this would also happen and that He would have to destroy most of His creation and start over. His love for man was so great that He did keep on going with His plan. Do not think God was starting over, He knew man would fall this far, and knew He would need to destroy the world, this also was in His plan because of free will.
That reeks of incompetence. God, in his all perfectness, knew the fall would happen, and even though it sorrowed him, he chose to do nothing about it. Since he did nothing then, he realized that later on he would have to drown almost all of the human race. He feels so bad about that, he promises never to flood the earth again and gives us the rainbow as a sign of that pact.
Yaweh is lucky he's the only god, because he would have been canned and replaced for such a sloppy performance if a replacement was to be found.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
