malkie wrote:just me wrote:
So, you suppose that all reproduction for all animal life ceased for 3-4 years prior to the Great Deluge? Where do you get that from the Bible?
by the way, I think killing all adults casts a pretty big shadow, too. I try not to be an ageist when it comes to who is being murdered.
Thanks - us old guys really appreciate you for that.
We have no indication that there were any babies or children around when the Flood started. Noah had no grandchildren. There is only an assumption of babies for those who are trying to cast a shadow on God's judgment. God's perfect timing may very well have been when only adults were around. So, there you are standing outside of the Ark and the rains begin... What would you say then?
So, the truth comes out --- you don't care a thing about babies. What concerns you is that anyone could be drowned by God. How about the fact that people die every day from all sorts of diseases and accidents. I suppose that you feel God should do something about that too. Well, what exactly do we do for God? God is the Creator. He brought you into this world and I feel He has every right to take you out of it at His leasure. Where do you presume that there were babies born right up to the Flood. Noah had a wife and three sons, and they had wives. Only those eight. How long was Noah and his sons working on the Ark? Perhaps you should look that up on the "Bible verse by verse"... God doesn't inform us of everything. I'm sure He has to deal with enough stupidity and arrogance on the part of a sinful world. If God saved all the babies, then there would be people who'd take issue with this and with that. The sinful things man does count for nothing it would seem. I've heard that after the 1906 San Fancisco Earthquake that revival broke out all over California. So, I feel that God allows everything to happen for a reason. Some will learn from it and some will not get it, even though they are drowning. What you do to another of God's creation is murder. What God allows is His prerogative ---- He owns everything including us.
See: http://www.answersingenesis.org/article ... evangelist
ii Peter 2:4-22
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell,a putting them into gloomy dungeonsb to be held for judgment; 5if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.c 10This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful natured and despise authority.
Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings; 11yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord. 12But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.e 14With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood! 15They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness. 16But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—a beast without speech—who spoke with a man’s voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them. 18For they mouth empty, boastful words and, by appealing to the lustful desires of sinful human nature, they entice people who are just escaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him. 20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. 22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”