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Originally Posted by boxcar
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.  |
Yes...God did the do-over, and killed off all the sinners...sparing only Noah's family. Doesn't this mean that we are all descendants of Noah...and not a part of those sinners on whom God vented out his wrath? Why do you keep telling us that we are still paying for the sins of Adam and Eve...when the truth is that we are all related to Noah's family, whom God has already forgiven and spared from that cataclysmic catastrophe?
