The Flood Myth - The Greatest Evil

[Danmark]

Assuming the myth of the flood as recorded in Genesis is accurate history, it is the greatest single evil act recorded in the history of man. It also is evidence the alleged god who perpetrated this evil makes mistakes, contradicts himself, and is capricious.
Consider that shortly after pronouncing all of his creation "good" he repents and calls the whole thing evil and decides to destroy all of it; man and all the other animals [except, presumably, marine life]. Then he changes his mind again and decides He'll just wipe out everything and everyone except a single family to represent each species.

Why he saved the death stalker scorpion, mosquitoes, the box jellyfish, the black widow spider, the poison dart frog, blue ring octopus, and Clostridium Botulinum is beyond me, except that it puts the lie to the idea he was trying to get rid of evil.

It's obvious the story of the flood is pure mythology, but even then, what is its purpose? To show man how evil and corrupt he'd become? The God of this myth certainly does not set a good example.

[ttruscott]

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Assuming the myth of the flood as recorded in Genesis is accurate history, it is the greatest single evil act recorded in the history of man.

Bible tells the reason for flood was violence.

The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Gen. 6:11

What is your opinion, should the violence continue, or should God end it? As you may notice, violence has increased very much also in modern time, should it be ended, or should God allow violence to continue eternally?

According to Bible tales an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfect-in-every-way God decides to end violence (or wickedness or whatever) on Earth by killing all inhabitants except eight members of a righteous family. After the flood those eight supposedly repopulate the Earth (presumably with good seed).

However, evil remains in large measure. How can that be? Did the all-knowing God not know what to do to end evil? Was an all-powerful God not up to the task (unable to accomplish its objective)?

If I needed a god (for some unimaginable reason) an incompetent one would not be my choice " among the thousands available for worship.

It is obvious that the flood was not to end all violence in the earth for all time. Ending violence (on earth) cannot be the reason for the flood. A more logical reason is that it is a prophecy in real time with real people in real events (called a type) that points to a future fulfillment of the prophecy, (called an anti-type) to be fulfilled in the end times when the few Christians that are left can take solace in the fact that their situation had happened before and GOD and saved 8 people though the whole world was against them.

[Zzyzx]

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[Replying to post 980 by ttruscott]

[Replying to post 979 by 1213]

I see . . . an all-knowing, all-powerful, perfect God kills all animals on Earth (including all those wicked unborn and infants) as a TEMPORARY elimination of wickedness and as a threat and/or a lesson of how willing it is to kill humans in the future " knowing (as in all-knowing) that wickedness will continue.

You (generic term) WORSHIP that God? And think it is perfect?

It is fortunate that we have people willing to explain all that to readers and show them the advantages of Theism.

Surely among the thousands of proposed gods available to be worshiped there are some that are said to be less malevolent.