Granted our world is even a more dangerous place. Mankind has the capabilities to even harm the planet besides each other.
So once....a long time ago....God saw fit to "fix" a doomed planet. HE saved one family. Did he NOT know that they were already stained by the original sin and that the ways of man would prevail again? And now, as you admit freely, it is worse than ever.
Did all the angels disobey God? They were a perfect spirit creation created with free will also. Most remained faithful.
Did they? Can you site biblical evidence that they ever disobeyed God? I don't think you can.
Perfect human creation like angelic creation was created with free will. There was no reason for God to use foreknowledge since he was the one who gave all the gift of free will in the first place to choose. God only decreed the flood after the fallen angels (so to speak) and fallen mankind reached the point of no return where their violence was concerned. No intervention would have meant no one righteous left on earth.
PLease support that it was the "violence of man" that made God angry and thus destroy the planet.
Please support how there was no one righteous on Earth if God hadn't stepped in.
God can not do everything. God can not lie. God chooses not to intervene in our choices.
Adam chose independence from God and God honored Adam's choice. Most of mankind has made that same choice. Sadly many have made that choice under the disguise of a religious veneer.
So why does God give freewill and then get upset when man uses that freewill? Is that not a contradiction?
Why allow Adam to exercise his freewill and destroy Onan immediately for exercising his freewill. Let it be noted that Adam's exercise of freewill doomed an entire planet. Onan's exercise of freewill doomed only him.
God made parents responsible for their minor children.. Those violent parents whose thoughts were bad all the time (Gen 6:5) were not the loving parents you might like to think.
How do you get THAT out of:
Genesis 6:5 (aka what is REALLY says)
"The Lord saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time."
They may have had a selfish distorted form of love but not the natural affection they should have had. They were filling the earth with violence (Gen 6:11) They would not only have ended up killing each other, but anyone righteous also.
Ah the first time you kinda got it right....this is the first time violence is mentioned....but it's not alone. For it was "corrupt in God's site AND full of violence".
So why not save the other righteous people....why just Noah's family? In essence God killed righteous people perhaps.
Besides being an ark builder Noah was a preacher (2Pt2:5). By their own choice those warned parents did not put themselves on the ark to save either themselves or their children. Maybe animal kind became diseased though some of the practices of those violent people.?
Or perhaps....if you are goign to flood the earth to get rid of man....animals are just part of what we now call friendly fire. Collateral damage if you will.
Even the world knows 'as the twig is bent so the tree will grow'. Those pre-flood children were being' bent' to be violent and bully each other and that would not have stopped on their own.
Ah this is absolute hooy. I see children everyday that come from TERRIBLE home lifes that are certainly on their way OUT of the darkness that is their life.
I will not dispute the fact that more often than not children in bad situation emulate of fall into those same bad habits but it's not 100% true. IF you EDUCATE them...more often than not you can save them from their family and give them their life.
In Scripture God always warns first both righteous and unrighteous. (Eze3:18-21) before he acts. Just like today we are warned that there will be divine intervention by Jesus taking action as Matthew (25:32) says. Only sheep-like ones will survive when the wicked are destroyed by Jesus. Once the political world (Rev17:2) turns on the religious world (Rev 18:7) that has proven itself false by playing false to God and Jesus, then once again there will be divine intervention, and after Jesus rids the earth of wickedness only the sheep-like ones of Matthew chapter 25 will be left when Jesus ushers in peace on earth to men of goodwill.
What if you aren't wicked....you just don't believe?
There is no getting it wrong. Compare Isaiah 11:4 with Rev. 19:15
As it is written so it shall be.
Sure you can get it wrong...compare Exodus 20:16 and Proverbs 12:22 to I Kings 22:23 and II Thessalonians 2:11
Exodus "Thou shalt not bear false witness."
Proverbs "Lying lips are an abomination to the lord"
I Kings "The Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee."
II Thessalonians "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie."
FurthermoreJoshua 2:4-6 and James 2:25.....a lying prostitute is praised for being a liar.
