RE: The Noachian Flood
December 16, 2012 at 3:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2012 at 3:11 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 16, 2012 at 3:05 pm)Faith No More Wrote: You left out the part where the omniscient Yaweh felt remorse for flooding the whole world, because apparently, he couldn't foresee the consequences of his actions.
"This hurts me more than it hurts you", eh? Good point, and nice catch, though.
(December 16, 2012 at 3:05 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Of course, theists will dismiss this whole issue by saying this was all according to god's plan from the beginning, but that raises the question of why their deity came up with such an inept plan in the first place.
This is what leads me to think that the Yahweh character, at this early stage, was conceived as altogether less godlike - as we would recognise it - and much more human, with all the frailties, limitations and complexes that would entail. Rather like the Olympic gods, in fact.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
