I've never proposed a topic, but I kinda got to this through the Panda's thumb blog, and the various links and posts I read from Christian and other posters.
It all mostly focuses on Noah and his family, and how through creating the ark, they manage to be saved from the calamity that is brought down by God. But I started thinking about the idea if I'm in that position, with my family, disregarding the animals, the care, the idea logistics of it all.
How would that feel? Because I can't imagine Noah didn't know anyone else BUT his family, as you grow up and build a family, you meet a lot of people, you deal with a lot of folk, friend or foe.
But then you're dealing with a situation where everyone else but you and your family, will be killed. Drowned, and you're all that's left.
I know people who have been in warzones and have PTSD, who have seen friends or even just enemies die in combat and the toll that has one those people, and how they remember it and how it haunts them at times. And I can't get over the fact that this one family, trudged through a global flood, killing literally everyone, left a ruined world in their wake basically, and were fine to just start up again without showing any struggle.
How do Christians deal with that idea? I'm not exactly sure where to put this. But I wanna know how someone can get their mind around the fact, that for instance, if something like this were to happen today (Even though in scripture, it won't ever happen again) and today being the first time, and they survive while the whole world around them dies, that they can look up and see benevolence in God. Kindness or caring, love and trust.
If anyone else around us managed to kill a hundred people, they'd be hated, even if they had some grand goal, some good intention (somehow) behind it. Yet there's a God who has killed and destroyed the entire planet so to speak, and it's barely given a second glance beyond how much of a lesson it is to us.
How would one deal with the friends, the family, the friends and acquaintances they've grown up, fondly in some cases, because it couldn't be a world with just evil people, a society can't run on just evil deeds. How would they deal with that or even think about that?
I want this to be a discussion not about the specifics of how it can or can't happen, but about how a human would deal with such an event, or how it affects them. What would people think if something like that situation happened to them, all aware of their goals to get through it, but also they would lose by going through it.
Edited by Zucadragon, : Typo correcting
™ Version 4.2