(August 23, 2014 at 9:48 am)Tonus Wrote:(August 23, 2014 at 6:46 am)Stimbo Wrote: Regardless, why bother with a deadline at all? It's not as if "God" was warning of some imminent disaster beyond its control. "God" supposedly was pulling all the strings the whole time and could just as easily have waited until the ark project was completed and stocked before wiping out all life.It's a good thing that he was god, otherwise he might have wrongly estimated how long it would take a group of 400-500 year-olds to build the world's biggest wooden boat, and load tens of thousands of animals onto it.
Let me see if I channel snowpeas:
But because the flood was local to just the area where the HSS had become especially loathsome to God, there just weren't all that many different animals to bring.[/impersonation]
What an enormous millstone it must be to have to make literal sense of the bible. Snowpeas sure does work hard at it, even if it is pointless. What I can't tell is whether he took up this mindset because he wasn't too bright, or, if engaging in this activity has dimmed his light.