(September 30, 2013 at 11:41 am)John V Wrote: Consider the global flood. IIRC it took decades for Noah to build the ark. God was slow to anger, but the people didn't respect him despite the warning.
Well, since he told Noah to build a huge ark that would hold 2 to 7 pairs of all of the organisms in the world with no power tools or magical god powers, I guess he had to exercise a fair amount of patience.