Why can't God flood the world again?

NomNomPizza · Mar 13, 2021

It's not like he can't but he promised that he won't and he don't want to.

Hammster · Mar 13, 2021

Read Psalms 2 and Psalms 110

d taylor · Mar 13, 2021

Fire will be used next.

But the Noah flood was not just about mankind, satan and his attempt to stop the birth of The Messiah played a large part in the flood.

Psalm 27 · Mar 13, 2021

He has a different plan next time. The meek will inherit the earth

A_Thinker · Mar 13, 2021

He already tried that.

The lesson (for us) ... is that it didn't make a difference.

All we, like sheep, have gone astray ... and need God's grace to come back into His blessing ...

Estrid · Mar 13, 2021

From a grammatical point of view, no, as there was no
first flood.
That is not an atheist v christian thing,
as its only a subset of Christians who take
the story literally.
Just as all nature may proclaim God's glory,
so too does it show to eyes that will see
that there never was an actual flood.

In the event, as it did not work even in the
story, why try again?

FTM, mass destruction is hardly the only thing
an omnipotent God could do.

As for world getting worse, this seems to me
primarily a metter of personal attitude.

I expect nearly anyone who went time traveling
back, say, a hundred years, 150, 1000....
They would be sickened and horrified,
in a big big hurry to get back to the present!

Have a Starbucks with me and look at the
bright side!

SkyWriting · Mar 13, 2021

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Freth · Mar 13, 2021

The Lord is waiting until the last possible moment, so that all that can be saved will be saved.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Fire and brimstone.

Revelation 14:9-10 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.

What we should do.

Revelation 14:11-14 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Principalities, powers and rulers of darkness.

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

paul1149 · Mar 13, 2021

The Flood apparently served the purpose of ridding the world of the Nephilim, and also kept man from self-destructing long enough so that the Kingdom of God could be established. But as we see, it was not a permanent solution, and neither would it be on Repeat. The tares have been sown among the wheat; an enemy has done this. This time God is going to wait for the harvest day and thresh them out properly and permanently.

Evil is on definitely on the move. But we are not without weapons against it. Through prayer, spiritual warfare, and action, we can restrain it to some degree and continue to establish the Kingdom, until the final day.

Maria Billingsley · Mar 13, 2021

Genesis 9

Sophrosyne · Mar 13, 2021

One thing that was common before the flood but changed after the flood was how long people lived. Some contend that the earth's canopy was changed that "helped" people live to be up to 900 years so it is possible that men before the flood lived hundreds of years and afterwards the "average" lifespan dropped dramatically. If you can imagine evil people in power through our known history especially alive during the world wars those people still living now and have several hundreds of more years to affect the world with their ideas and influence you can sort of see how things could in some ways be a lot worse. The fact that most people don't even live to be 100 these days pales in comparison to living 400-500 years or more. A man living that long could have almost a whole nation of people come from him especially if he had multiple wives and they were able to bear children for 100 years or more. It is also likely back then that fewer people died of genetic diseases and possibly the immune systems of people back then were stronger plus less pathogens and such to fight off. With these ideas in mind of very few deaths from illnesses we have now and people living to see dozens of generations of their offspring born one could see a population explosion in the billions. It is quite possible they did have some more advanced tech than most scientists think possible during that time frame in history. If they had some advanced tech (maybe not quite as advanced as today's) then building a humongous boat out of wood may seen even more foolish.
We don't really truly know how things were back then but one could consider that a huge amount of good or evil could easily be everywhere. If you look at the population here and how culture has changed over the short lifetimes of folks here some barely able to see great grandchildren marry and have kids imagine 120 generations of kids all "taught" the same wonderful things or a bunch of garbage that one evil man in his 300s demands of his "kingdom".

Hammster · Mar 13, 2021

God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
— Genesis 9:12-17

If the flood was local, God lied.

Worst Floods Recorded Since 1900

It’s best to just take God at His word.

HARK! · Mar 14, 2021

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Eschatologicaldisaster · Mar 14, 2021

He can and he will. What he will not do is flood the entire world or destroy all flesh as per the promise. If you refer to Rev 10, you'll notice the Angel with the rainbow over his head. The rainbow covenant was made with the seed that when God see's it, he'll remember his covenant not to destroy all flesh. Yet, he will destroy the wicked out of it and there would still be a flood.

ViaCrucis · Mar 14, 2021

According to the biblical story, God promised that such a thing would never happen again.

Also, the point of the story isn't that God got fed up with the world and started over; the point of the story is that even when "restarting the world" happens it doesn't actually fix anything that was wrong with it.

The world was no better off after the flood than it was before. That's a very important part of the story, and arguably essential to understanding the Christian understanding of the biblical narrative of redemption. Salvation does not come by flipping the game over and tossing all the pieces around. Salvation comes through the Seed of Abraham, of the Tribe of Judah, the son of David, born of the Virgin Mary: Jesus Christ.

-CryptoLutheran

Eschatologicaldisaster · Mar 14, 2021

That is not entirely accurate.
Genesis 9:11 states:
11And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

God never promised he would never flood the earth again. He promised that it would never send a flood to destroy the earth and all flesh. He could easily send a flood to destroy part of the world and most flesh. Look at the specific text.

Ex. Nahum 1:8
But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

He was referencing Ninevah at the time

ewq1938 · Mar 14, 2021

It was much better after the flood. The flood's purpose was to kill off the offspring that God didn't want to exist. If the flood didn't happen, they would still be here and the world would be a thousand times worse.

LightBearer · Mar 15, 2021

According to the Genesis account, God raised a vast ocean of water above the earth way up in the atmosphere on the second day of creation.

Gen 1:6-8 "Then God said: “Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let there be a division between the waters and the waters.” Then God went on to make the expanse and divided the waters beneath the expanse from the waters above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

This heavenly ocean (Deluge) was dropped during the flood.

God said to Noah: “Here I am bringing the deluge [or, “heavenly ocean”; Heb., mab·bulʹ] of waters upon the earth.” See: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001150#h=6

It's no longer there so cannot be used again.

LB

ViaCrucis · Mar 17, 2021

I'm not familiar with where that is said in Scripture. But yes, things didn't improve.

Was Noah any less sinful after the flood than he was before? If anything, Noah is shown as more sinful after the flood.

The problem of sin was not resolved by the flood. Because violence--not even Divine violence--can fix the problem of sin. Which is why it is the Gospel that reveals the justice of God, because God's justice is to make the world right by His grace.

-CryptoLutheran

VCR-2000 · Mar 18, 2021

I guess it feels like a sort of buzkill to know that the world and yourself is destined to become the victim of extreme persecution to the point of not wanting to live just because they are to be faithful to God, which that also implies a sort of pre-selection of events.

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