God is light. He is without any darkness or shadow. He is perfect and without sin 1st John 1:5
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I mean didn't he have a bad day and destroy all life on our planet? Very far from without sin by his own definition.
I'm going to preface this reply by saying that I am not here to argue with you, or to convince you of anything. This isn't an attack on your beliefs, or an indictment of you as a person. I'm legitimately curious about why you responded this way.
To address your comment: (if we are presuming Creation is His, to do with as He pleases. Destroying wickedness is not sinful. It is justice for God to crush rebellion. It is mercy to allow the return of those who rebel.
To address your approach: the Great Awakening is a spiritual movement. You don't have to agree with the implications of that, but to attack the foundation of faith in God, on this forum, seems counterproductive.
Does not seem tad hypocritical? Rules for thee...
Is that how you've internalized the story? Is that because you studied it carefully and arrived at this conclusion, or because phrasing it this way makes it easier for you to lie to yourself?
I'm sorry your father disappointed you so much.
Don't know why you say it's a lie. What is the big discrepancy you think? He destroyed (murdered and killed) all life on the planet save for the creatures that could fit into Noah's magical boat.
You are ignoring the fact that there was a REASON not a bad day. Reread the story note the child sacrifice and nephilim. Mankind was being polluted to a point our very existence was becoming cattle for his other creations. Our free will prevented him from forcing humans to worship him instead of the fallen angels. It was a bad day for us and only a bad day for him if he actually cared about his creation. I personally believe that it grieved him deeply to make that choice so yes it was a bad day for God.WE framed it as a story about following the rules or else but the deeper truth is the WHY of the rules. He didn’t destroy the whole planet btw he destroyed the polluted so that he could save the rest. I think this was what Akira2025 took as a lie the statement God had a bad day so destroyed the world is patently false. I am assuming you have not been exposed to the whole story since popular culture makes it more about hedonism being bad however THAT is not the truth just a way to make God look like a prude and creating a distance between us and a loving creator.
He finally had enough. Close enough to what I said. Then he killed ALL LIFE except the things on the magic boat.
With 100 years of warning.
Took Noah 's family that long to build ark big enough for animals to be preserved and 8 people to be saved, and food/drink supplies for about a year. While the water receded.
All the animals in the world; realistic?
It's "animal kinds" - each species has one kind, and the variations come from that. So simply, one pair of cat kind, one pair of dog kind, one pair of deer kind, etc. There is evolution (change) within a species, simply not from species to species.
Do you have any idea how many species there are on planet Earth? I don't know the estimate off the top of my head but perhaps...many billions? Some kind of zoologist that Noah! There are different species within those kinds (families) you mentioned.
He had to destroy the Nephilim and the corruption of the world at that point. There was the rebellion of man, and the rebellion of the fallen angels. But He loved humanity so much that He was born into this world as a human, to substitute for us with His death and take the penalty for our sin-death. He defeated death! And all you have to do to receive eternal life is repent and believe in Him. It's incredible.
Exactly!!!
It's a bunch of bullshit I am pretty sure.
You made a decision to be close minded and that’s you absolute right. Lots of people are pretty sure about a lot of things but that doesn’t make them correct. There are so many explanations that make sense when you choose to open minded. Based on things you have said about God your issue isn’t the HOW or even the Why it’s the person behind the action. When you have that component so much makes sense and that which does not - you are willing to trust no matter what.
How am I closed-minded when I study your book that you believe to be true? I try to maintain some doubt about everything including the ridiculousness of the bible story. I could be wrong, it could be all true. I think you are closed-minded because that is what faith requires. You can't even do a thought experiment about what if it was all made up to control us. Doubt is forbidden. Clearly I do not share your belief in any of it so what makes you think "my issue" is "the person" behind "the action?" No recursive thinking ability.