(April 7, 2014 at 12:23 am)orangebox21 Wrote: In summation most of the arguments stated here misrepresent what the scriptures say. God judged the earth because the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Somehow that statement in the posters minds becomes: God murders babies. You have created a false image, a straw man, to be precise.
So, there were no babies in the flood? Are you telling me that god didn't murder babies?
No one is misrepresenting the scriptures here, and the fact that you think it is a straw man is quite telling. We're just appalled at what the scriptures say, and even more appalled that you somehow think you can defend them.
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
