God decided to send a great flood to destroy all life, for He was angered at the wickedness of man. After witnessing his destruction he realised his mistake and the Lord said in his heart, 'I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done.
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God is always perfect & He is good all the time
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God made a mistake. He let his son die (what a dad) and the majority of the people on this Earth don't wish to be Christian. Jesus would have accomplished nore if he was allowed to continue living his life,  doing the great things that he did.
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After much thought and research, I have come to realize that the God of the OT was/is the same as the God of the new.  And He is love.  He showed great love before the flood, when the earth proved bad and He was heartbroken (Biblically, He was hurt in His heart.)  Although He had regrets that He had created mankind because of the evil disposition of man, He sent Noah to warn everyone that all they had to do was enter the Ark to be saved.  That's it.  No blood atonement, nothing.  Just get on the boat.  Of course, we know the end of the story.  And He showed great love to Abraham, who beseeched God to turn His great wrath aside from Sodom and Gomorrah if he, Abraham, could find 50 righteous amongst them.  God obliged Abraham, even down to 10.  There were none found, and God destroyed them all.  But, He always, ALWAYS gives us a way out.  It's just that we are either too wicked, selfish, stupid, stubborn or blind to take it.
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good question. God gave us freewill, that means we can do whatever we want to it means your free to shoot the next person you see and God won't intervene, it sounds harsh but God wants us to be humans and not robots. but there's consequences to everything we do, we destroy the earth with our sin, sin doesn't just effect each other it effects everything around us, animals, birds, weather etc etc. God gave us freewill so we'd come to him willingly, he doesn't want to force himself on us...that's not love. He loves us enough to give us a choice to follow him or to not follow him. God hates what is going on in the earth, but he does intervene when needed. the tsunami for example, loads of people helped out with that in a world without God no one would care because why should we ?? without God it's survival of the fittest, it's kill or be killed there's no point in life pretty much. anyway God doesn't allow pain and suffering in heaven there will be none. our sin is the cause of pain and suffering.
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Because he loved us and wants all mankind to be saved...\n\nOne day about 2,000 years ago God stepped out of heaven, came down to earth, and took the earthly human form of Jesus Christ. The reason that the Son of God took a human form is very beautifully stated in Hebrews 2:17. "Therefore he had to become like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make a sacrifice of atonement for the sins of the people."\n\nHis love for each of us was indeed great because when the Son of God left heaven he gave up all his glory and all his power. No longer did he sit at the right hand of Almighty God. Instead of having the glory and honor of being the Son of God, he had voluntarily reduced himself to a mere mortal. Stepping out of paradise he left all that and instead took the earthly form of Jesus Christ. It is truly incredible but the Son of God allowed himself to be born into a world that he himself had created. That is why the term "the only begotten son of God" is used.\nBegotten simply means born of flesh.\n\nLuke 1:35 "And the angel answered and said to her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you; wherefore also the Holy One which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.\n\nIt's incredible but God is telling us that he loved us so much that he became one of us. And he did all this just for the privilege of welcoming you and I into heaven.\n1 John 4:10 "That God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through Him."\n\nJesus was an ambassador, a divine emissary from Almighty God himself. He had many objectives on his mission to earth, but the main purpose was twofold. First he was to tell the entire world about God the Father, and the second purpose is spelled out so very clearly in 1 Timothy 1:15 "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners".\n\nBut in accomplishing this second goal, Jesus was going to suffer and die. But before he died, he was going to have every single one of your sins and every single one of my sins placed upon his soul. With those sins in place, he then allowed himself to be horribly tortured and murdered.\n\nGiving up his existence as The Son of God, stepping out of heaven, taking the human form of Jesus Christ, and going through a horrible and painful death, was his main goal for coming here. For had God in the form of Jesus not paid your sin debt and my sin debt, then nothing else that Jesus did would have mattered very much because none of us would have ever had the chance of achieving eternal life and be able to spend eternity with him and his Father.\n2 Corinthians 5:21 "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God".\n\nTruly, it was Christ's obedience that canceled out Adam's disobedience.\n\nHaving our sins placed upon Jesus didn't make him sinful. He was still God and therefore was completely sinless. At the time of his crucifixion Jesus simply "carried" our sins; a sort of temporary stand in for our sins. There was a transfer of sins; from all of us, to him. This is why the wording of 2 Corinthians 5:21 is so very important. That verse says, "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." Christ was sinless, but willingly accepted every single sin, from every single person, that was or would ever be committed.\n\nThis transfer of sins was unseen by everyone but God because as he watched his Son hanging there dying, he could also see all those many sins piling up on his Son. It makes no difference that you would not be born for another 2,000 years. The sins of every human being that ever lived, or was going to live, had their sins all transferred over to Jesus. Not one single sin, regardless of how small, was left unaccounted fo
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funny how you didn't point out how "GOD" made all of those people before kill people, he killed people himself with floods, he tortured people to prove their trust in him (Job), he is just so perfect, isn't he? you're right!
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Ecclesiastes 12:13\nLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
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Again you do nothing but muddy the water of a clear stream.\n\nLuk 12:49  I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? \nLuk 12:50  But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! \nLuk 12:51  Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
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who knows the mystery of God, for in Gods foolish mistakes he is still wiser then we are. when God made man he made man in his own image,God also told adam,and eve to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil for in the day that they eat from the tree they would surely die. it was not God intentions to destroy the earth with water, but mans increase in wickedness provoke the wrath of God. God intentions were not to destroy the city of sodom and gommorah with fire,but they were drinking,being married,given to in marriage,men sleeping with men,women with women,children being raped,people sleeping with animals,and people worshipping idol gods.that provoked the wrath of God.furthermore because God is the same God of yesterday,today, and forever more,he knows before hands what destiny he will have planned for the future.as for why the jewish people still have not accepted the messiah is not your concern. what you need to do is find out who God is for yourself then when you do go to him in prayer and ask him.....
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We had this read at our wedding. It's from Genisis, chapter 2\n\n 18 The LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him." \n\n 19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. \n      But for Adam [h] no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [i] and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [j] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. \n\n 23 The man said, \n       "This is now bone of my bones \n       and flesh of my flesh; \n       she shall be called 'woman, [k] ' \n       for she was taken out of man." \n\n 24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. \n\n \nI think verse 24 is what you're looking for.
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The Hebrew text of the Old Testament does not necessitate that **all** animals on earth were wiped out by a global flood.\n\nThe terms used in the text are consistent with a local/ regional flood and that the animals that were saved on the ark were ones that were relevant to the local ecology (that Noah and his family lived in).\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org\n[God and Science]
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My thoughts:  The Lord is giving this earth one last chance to rectify its wrongs...this last "round" of repentance may be supported by supernatural events which put the fear of God in people who repent.  We have already had the sea and the waves roaring with the tsunami and the huge hurricanes...it is possible that the strange weather patterns we see with tornados, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis are not just due to the "ozone" but due to God's finger moving the earth out of its natural rotation to shake the earth.\n\nThe Lord's return is imminent...I am 55 years old. I was planning to retire at age 60. When I asked him about my retirement, he told me "You will not be here...." I will be 56 this year. That gives me less than 4 years left on this earth...my sense is that more terrorism will occur,and natural disasters will increase. People will be crying out to God for the last time before his return.  Some people will never turn to him and they will be lost....so when the diasters occur, realize that the Lord has picked those people in those areas for repentance, and to go in and minister/witness his love and mercy to them and pray for their salvation.\n\n\nJoe 2:10 The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: \n\nAmo 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: \n\nLuk 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; \n\nMat 24:27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
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Mankind had grown to new heights of evil preceding the flood. Certainly women knew they were copulating with something other than humans - and the debauchery was great on many levels.\n\nThe Book of Enoch was obviously quoted in accepted canonized books and should have been included.  The reason (or part of the reason) why it was rejected is because Enoch described planets as orbs (round) and having orbital paths..., something that threatened the Flat Earth stigma.\n\nAt any rate the Bible mentions the Nephelim not because they were a good thing.., but an added evil so yeah, your observation is at least partly true.  Only seven people in the entire earth had not been corrupted.. Actually it was just Noah, but there had to have been an assumption that his family had not been corrupted by that evil.\n\nOur present day world is seeing evil that rivals that of Noah's day, with men experimenting and trying to create life from scratch. Already some scientists are working on completely artificial human DNA. They have also manipulated genes so that female mice can have babies without a male partner - something they hope to develop into human females so the need for males are zero.., a violation of the order God set out on this world.\n\nTodays generation calls evil good and good evil.  Being homosexual and immoral is considered normal and thus deemed as good - but having morals is considered to be stifling intelligence and trying to control others, hence deemed as bad.\n\nThe list goes on and on..., but evil has reached new heights and the world doesn't see it. I've heard many saying there is no evil in  his world .., all things are good.\n\nJesus will be coming back soon. The sooner - the better!  Unless God had not cut the days short, mankind will end in a global state of genocide (nuclear and bio-weapons, diseases from abuse of our own bodies, violence and injustice and more)
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All people, christians and non-christians grow old and die and many die from unforeseen circumstances. The reason bad things happen to anyone, is because of God's enemy, Satan the devil. He challenged God's right to rule over the earth and said that humans do not need God and could rule themselves independently without God's help. God is answering Satans challenge by allowing man to try to live without his interference. Satan also said that humans would discontinue serving God if he( Satan and his demons)) were allowed to cause them pain and suffering. There have been and still are many who are proving Satan to be a liar, who love and serve God faithfully, despite whatever persecution Satan brings upon them.\nWhat has been the result of man ruling man without God intervening? Suffering and injustice, wars, crime and hatred. \nGod has promised to soon rid the earth of all those things and to destroy Satan and all who follow him. Satan will lose the challenge and be proved a liar. By remaining faithful to the end, we show that we are on God's side and prefer his rule over man's.  \nWe need a righteous ruler who will be just and merciful. Human rulers can do nothing for us. (Psalm 146:3)\nLook what Psalms 37:9-11 promises us--" For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace." \nSoon the meek who inherit this earth will be under one government that will last forever. (See Daniel 2:44) No more will we have to put up with imperfect human rulers who can never bring an end to injustice, crime, terrorism or death itself. God's government will do all that and more.
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A very astute observation.\n\nScripture assures as that God can know all things, but being all powerful certainly he has the ability to refrain from knowing certain things if he so chooses.\n\nThus, at Genesis 11:5-8 God is described as directing his attention earthward, surveying the situation at Babel, and, at that time, determining the action to be taken to break up the unrighteous project there. After wickedness developed at Sodom and Gomorrah, Jehovah advised Abraham of his decision to investigate (by means of his angels) to “see whether they act altogether according to the outcry over it that has come to me, and, if not, I can get to know it.” (Genesis 18:20-22; 19:1) God spoke of ‘becoming acquainted with Abraham,’ and after Abraham went to the point of attempting to sacrifice Isaac, Jehovah said, “For now I do know that you are God-fearing in that you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”—Genesis 18:19; 22:11, 12; compare Nehemiah 9:7, 8; Galatians 4:9.\n\nSelective foreknowledge means that God could choose not to foreknow indiscriminately all the future acts of his creatures. This would mean that, rather than all history from creation onward being a mere rerun of what had already been foreseen and foreordained, God could with all sincerity set before the first human pair the prospect of everlasting life in an earth free from wickedness. His instructions to his first human son and daughter to act as his perfect and sinless agents in filling the earth with their offspring and making it a paradise, as well as exercising control over the animal creation, could thus be expressed as the grant of a truly loving privilege and as his genuine desire toward them—not merely as the giving of a commission that, on their part, was foredoomed to failure. God’s arranging for a test by means of “the tree of the knowledge of good and bad” and his creation of “the tree of life” in the garden of Eden also would not be meaningless or cynical acts, made so by his foreknowing that the human pair would sin and never be able to eat of “the tree of life.”—Genesis 1:28; 2:7-9, 15-17; 3:22-24.
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I thought that way once.\n\nThen I thought God was a learning God.  Remember when he did things like flooding the world his teachings stated "eye for an eye".\n\nI finally realized Once God gave us free will; he gave up his power to do anything in our world.  All he can do is speak to us.  He can't make anything happen.\n\nRemember man made the Bible.  As for my belief on the great flood, he warned people.  Only Noah listened.  As for a lot of other things God supposedly did; magic does exsist.  You can say it's of God, but really it's inside us all.  Remember even some bad people in the Bible did some magic: example: in the story of Moses 2 of the Pharohs men created snakes, not just Moses.  Moses was just stronger then them.
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The cities of the plain were destroyed as a warning for all that this same event will happen again one day to the wicked.  One would think God is capable of preserving this ancient lesson for us to see and learn from.\n\n"Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens"  Genesis 19:24.  "Turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly"  II Peter 2:6.  (The word for "example" means an exhibit for warning.)