I have a somewhat related comment. I put it into my own words.
I hear that God was completely and utterly depressed with the actions of Noah (as in Noah's Ark) and his generation. So he decides, "Hey, Noah. I'll give you a chance to make up for your generation's mistakes. Build me an ark and take two of each animal in it. Hurry up, kid, cuz in a little while I'm gonna flood this planet and kill all of you. Get cracking."
Noah, of course, was terrified, and spent--accoring to the bible--half of his two-hundred and some odd years life building the arc and gathering the animals.
So he set sail and it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.Everyone not on the arc drowns ... except the fishies.
Then when it clears up, God gives Noah a call. "Dude ... I guess I really shouldn't have done that. Never again will I purge this world with water."
Now. If God was so mad at the human race that he could destroy it, how bad were they? If he hasn't yet cleansed our generation, what with all our murder and war, etc., how much worse was Noah's generation that we haven't been purged?
Sure, he says he won't give the planet a thourough shower any time soon, but He's God for goodness' sake! He has quite a few tools at his disposal. He could rain fire, He could uproot corpses an mutilate the living, He could turn the ground to quicksand and suck us up, He could make us all explode from the inside if he felt like it, and all with the twitch of a finger.
And another point! He made everything! So, he made all the materials for weapon-making and bombs! Sure, you can argue that humans would've found another way to make these things ... but think about it, anyways.
That's all, no more!
Peace!
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