bluescat48 writes:
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.
That is what He said. He just did it with water 120 years after the warnings began.
Lets examine for a moment what took place.
God told Noah to build an ark and gave him the dimensions. That was a huge endevor. I drew the ark to find out about the space in the ark for another thread with my Chief Architect program. I found that I could put over 15 acres of storage floor in the ark.
It took Noah 120 years to build this ark. That would take a lot of man power and materials.
That means many of the people 3 generations could have worked on the ark. Noah warned the people for 120 years anyone could have come aboard the ark until God shut the door. But no one chose to do so.
It wasn't that God did not give them a chance to repent.
Now if God had done as you suggested none of these people would have had the opportunity to choose. You say but none of them chose to repent. And God knew they would not. But God gave them the opportunity just the same. Just like He gives people the opportunity today.
bluescat48 writes:
Why go through the rigamarole of a global flood.
How many people talk about the Flood?
Compare that to, How many people talk about an extinction event?
His reason could have been so we would talk about it. That way it could be an example.
bluescat48 writes:
If a person believes in let there be light then why not the above.
If you are asking could God have spoke and everything fall dead except all those on the ark. Sure He could. Then He would have had to dispose of all the dead bodies. Now with the flood all these bodies became fertilizer for new growth and other things.
I kinda get the feeling God knew what He was doing. After all He stood at the beginning and viewed the end just as He does today.
bluescat48 writes:
If all that is meant in creation is magic let it be all.
This magic you keep refering to, is it like a magician waving a magic wand over a hat and producing a bunny rabbit.
Or are you talking about something appearing from an absence of anything and it creating the universe as we see it today.
God does not use magic.
He made the laws and they obey Him.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."
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