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Originally Posted by hcap
Not as much as boxcar's "true believers" who accept boxcar's Noah and the Ark.
If you believe in the biblical account of Noah and the Ark, you can not logically believe in an all knowing, all-doing, and all loving God
1-God could have done a do-over without destroying 99.999999% of the human race by simply waving a "celestial hand" and saying "let there be a much simpler do-over"
2-God should have known he screwed up when he created Adam and Eve to avoid a bunch of do-overs in the first place. Noah,and then sending Jesus as the second do-over
3-How could God love mankind, his so-called "children" knowing he would put them through the barbaric do-over of the Flood?
"O what tangled webs we weave, when we literally biblically believe"
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Let's start in reverse -- #3. The "children" of God is not all mankind. Not a biblical concept. Purely wishful thinking.
#2: God did not screw up. He gave man free will. Adam and Eve screwed up by making the wrong choice. In order for God to love anyone, he must do that freely. Ditto for man made his image. In order for any human being to reciprocate that love, it must be done freely. Love is not love unless it is freely given and freely received.
#1: God did a do-over, just not the way you personally like it. God's destruction of all human life, save for eight people was perfectly just since evil had permeated all the earth's population. All men's thoughts and intentions were evil continually and the earth was filled with violence. God kept his word to Adam. The penalty for sin is death, so the Flood was the means of inflicting the penalty.
Meanwhile...go hug your 'puter. Maybe it'll hug you back.
