[net.religion] "Re: The Flood

greg@ihlpf.UUCP (07/19/83)

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ihlpf!dap1    Jul 18 22:26:00 1983

God only asked Noah to do that which he could do?  I don't think Aristotle
Onassis could have built a ship suitable for carrying two of all the animals
for forty days and nights and even if he could, I'm SURE he couldn't find
some old man and his family capable of staffing it for that period.
You're asking me to believe old Noah handled all this back at the beginning
of civilization?  And that this was the "easy" part?

In the other paragraph, I can't believe that God drowned all the infants on the
face of the earth along with all the animals (except the fish and the ones that
got away with Noah) just so he could have a sort of literary foreshadowing of
things to come.  If so, how do you reconcile this with mercy?

I'm afraid that these arguments are not too persuasive to me.

                                                     Darrell Plank
                                                     BTL-IH