God's Greatest Regret

[Cinjin]

How does the god of the bible suddenly regret the creations he claims to love? The one creation god made in his own image - he now regrets making so much that he drowns everyone? Millions of christians attempt to teach us that god loves everyone. I'm glad my parents never "loved" me that way.



Seriously now ... How does a "perfect god" have ANY regret ... let alone one so great that he kills nearly every living creature HE made?

This is not necessarily a thread about the flood. I want to know why a perfect god says, "Uh oh ...... ooops."
Ummm, I thought you were perfect.

[Drich]

What does being 'perfect' have to do with feeling sorrow?

[T.J.]

This,

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:4

This was where shit just got too weird.

[Tonus]

Angel Sperm: breakfast of CHAMPIONS!!!

[Napoléon]

This,

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:4

This was where shit just got too weird.

The whole of fucking genesis is weird. Scratch that. The whole fucking book is weird.

[max-greece]

"Uh oh ...... ooops," is an expression denoting that an error was made. Another way of saying it is - sorry.

God says sorry for drowning everyone by producing a rainbow and promising not to do it again.

God, therefore, made an error.

Bang goes perfection.

Of course we could carry on from there. God drowned the world because it was full of sin. According to Christians everywhere the world today is full of sin. Another fuck up from God then. He drowned the world to purge it of sin and yet, here we are, all sinners together.

I should also point out, again, that features such as wroth, pride, envy and vanity do not sit will with the idea of perfection.

[Minimalist]

What does being 'perfect' have to do with feeling sorrow?

Let's see....the question is really, why is your "perfect" god such a fuck up?

31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed it was very good.

Gen. 1

So your "god" was happy but he still felt the need to shortly thereafter kill almost every fucking thing he made? What a douchebag.

[Anomalocaris]

What does being 'perfect' have to do with feeling sorrow?

Indeed, being perfect has absolutely nothing to do with your god, whether in theory or in practice.

[Mister Agenda]

Emotions are reactions. The idea of a legitimate emotional reaction to something you've literally seen coming for an eternity is absurd. But the people who were putting words in God's mouth didn't have the imagination to devise more than an arbitrary and murderous oriental potentate written large.

[Drich]

Emotions are reactions. The idea of a legitimate emotional reaction to something you've literally seen coming for an eternity is absurd. But the people who were putting words in God's mouth didn't have the imagination to devise more than an arbitrary and murderous oriental potentate written large.

Let's say your wife is a recovering drug addict. She stays clean and sober so long as she stays away from certain people. Because in the past you know if she starts talking to old 'friends' she will fall back into her old ways.

Let's then say she ran into an 'old friend' taking your kid to a soccer game and fell off the wagon. Now even though you knew this would happen, do you feel any less sorrowful, or even angry just because you saw this comming?

What if instead of drugs she cheated on you. Let's say you knew if she meets up with a certain someone she does the mommy and daddy dance with someone besides daddy... would the foreknoweledge of your wife's future infedelity change the way you feel about it?