Would you give up your place in heaven...

Lets say it was you or I. Say we were on a rack and our bodies got pulled apart. We would suffer and die...regardless if we came back to life in a day or two or a week....the resurrection is symbolic of our lives getting redeemed...we would still experience the death.And it would still hurt a lot. We would never forget it even if it was only a few hours out of our lives.

So lets think a minute...all of the reprobates on earth drowned except for a chosen group of reprobates allowed into the Ark.This brings up questions.

Does God save us(empower us, cleanse us, choose us..etc...) or do we willfully become better people...of our own initiative. If the latter, I could see the sinful neighbors being given another chance. God is the one who ordained the flood, metaphorically...to wipe out reprobates. (as well as a bunch of animals, for whatever reason)

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Some would argue that we don't (and cant) save ourselves. In which case rescuing the evil neighbors would be pointless...

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Chance as a real force is a myth. It has no basis in reality and no place in scientific inquiry. For science and philosophy to continue to advance in knowledge, chance must be demythologized once and for all. —RC Sproul
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." —Mark Twain

Who determines whats right? Lets say you were invited to a lavish party by someone who knew you rather well.Do you give your invitation to someone whom your host may not know?

This highlights the ongoing problems that you have with God. You seemingly
insist that He revise and relax His rules...that He include all of your vagabond homeless friends on the guest list even if they curse Him to His face...and tainted by jars propaganda, you also seemingly act as if God is simply a character in a book that humans have a responsibility to rebuke.IF there is a Creator of all seen and unseen Who desires to draw humanity closer...is it really up to us to school God on whom to accept or reject? So are you suggesting that we resist accepting what He does for us and bargaining for the release of others---especially those who miss the cut? It suggests that we play God ourselves and snub our noses at the "Host" unless He allows us to bring our grungy guests with us....why not give Him the right to refuse service to whomever he wishes? Do we love people more than Him? If so, we are going against scripture...

Touche! I never thought about it until you brought up the obvious social parallels....I need to think more before i type.

Why not just follow Jesus? This rhetoric sounds noble in principle...but one must ask why these folks rejected Christ. Any ideas?