Zone1 If God Truly Loves Us Then Why Did He Cause The Great Flood?

[surada]

He put it off until there were only 8 actual humans left on earth. He saved humanity. Demon infested half-breeds called Nephilim, were what was on the earth. That includes animals. And they were nasty.
Even at that, it grieved God to have to do it.

Gen.6:9 Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation;

Genesis 6:5-6 “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Gen. 9:13 After the flood, God made a covenant with Noah and all his descendants that never again would the human family be threatened with total annihilation by flood. The sign God gave Noah to assure him of this covenant was the rainbow. “Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds I will remember my covenant.”
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The next time we see a rainbow, think God, not gay.

The next mass casualty event will be by fire, and caused by man. We'll call it WW3.
When someone holds God accountable for killing humans, remind them of our thing called war.
Man killing man en masse. In fact, there has never been a time when there has not been a war on this planet. We need to give God a break. We've killed more of our own than God has...

Except God didn't kill off the Nephilim.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Except God didn't kill off the Nephilim.

Who did then?

God killed the ones that were already on the earth at that time with the flood.
Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.

God chained the worst fallen angel offenders, in the last and innermost circle of hell, according to Peter, “the prison for fallen angels,” or Tartarus, but there have been other Nephilim since then.
The Mayans were possible candidates. They were unusually nasty. American Indians would hold up their hands to strangers to show that they did not have pilolydactylism (extra digits), a feature known to Nephilim.

Fallen angels are the sons of God. Their offspring were demons, according to Enoch.

 

[Slade3200]

And regret that He created humans in the first place? That doesn't sound like love to me.

I think there are many things in the Bible that don’t add up to love. There are elements like the flood are geared towards creating fear which in turn translates to control and compliance. There is a ton of good that can come from that book but also some obvious contradictions and power plays IMO

 

[ding]

I think there are many things in the Bible that don’t add up to love. There are elements like the flood are geared towards creating fear which in turn translates to control and compliance. There is a ton of good that can come from that book but also some obvious contradictions and power plays IMO

A lot of people get confused by it if they don't have the proper context. You have to be smart about it. You can't have biases one way or another. They only get in the way of good old common sense.

 

[ding]

And regret that He created humans in the first place? That doesn't sound like love to me.

It's not a letter from God or God's diary.

 

[ding]

Agreed. Nor does creating evil and things like cancer. Nor does killing innocent babies. Nor does sending people you "love" to eternal fire.

All of existence is good. Don't let the complexity of life get in your way of seeing that.

 

[surada]

Who did then?

God killed the ones that were already on the earth at that time with the flood.
Genesis 6:4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them.

God chained the worst fallen angel offenders, in the last and innermost circle of hell, according to Peter, “the prison for fallen angels,” or Tartarus, but there have been other Nephilim since then.
The Mayans were possible candidates. They were unusually nasty. American Indians would hold up their hands to strangers to show that they did not have pilolydactylism (extra digits), a feature known to Nephilim.

Fallen angels are the sons of God. Their offspring were demons, according to Enoch.

Numbers 13:32-33: "So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, 'The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. 33There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight"