From message 1:
It would have been simpler if "God" had simply stated all animals except Noah's family and one pair of the unclean & 7 pairs of the clean will now die. Why go through the rigamarole of a global flood. If a person believes in let there be light then why not the above. If all that is meant in creation is magic let it be all.
The essence of this topic is why God thought the flood was needed. Message 1 is extremely clear about that.
This is a "WHY" topic. Regardless of the flood reality, in the context of this topic, it did happen.
Considerations of WHAT actually happened, HOW it happened, WHEN it happened, WHERE it happened, etc. are all off-topic.
Please follow these guidelines. If you see these guidelines after you post an off-topic message, go back and edit fix your message (maybe delete the content?).
Not having seen this moderation message is not a "get off free" excuse. Harsh administrative actions might happen to guideline violators.
Adminnemooseus
Added by edit: I've only "OFF-TOPIC" bannered some of the most recent messages. That does not mean that the ealier messages were any better.
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.
Admin writes:
It really helps moderators figure out if a topic is disintegrating because of general misbehavior versus someone in particular if the originally non-misbehaving members kept it that way. When everyone is prickly and argumentative and off-topic and personal then it's just too difficult to tell. We have neither infinite time to untie the Gordian knot, nor the wisdom of Solomon.
There used to be a comedian who presented his ideas for a better world, and one of them was to arm everyone on the highway with little rubber dart guns. Every time you see a driver doing something stupid, you fire a little dart at his car. When a state trooper sees someone driving down the highway with a bunch of darts all over his car he pulls him over for being an idiot.
Please make it easy to tell you apart from the idiots.
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