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That's not a biblical picture - though it is a common distortion among some Christians.
Sacrifice is one of the biblical models for understanding the death and resurrection of Jesus, but in a world that doesn't do sacrifice its generally not the best one to start with. Jesus at Calvary took the whole consequence for sin upon himself, let all the evil in the world do it's worst to him, and came out the other side. By doing that the power of evil is broken.
"Fear of the Lord", in the Old Testament, becomes a phrase that operates as a noun in its own right meaning something like appropriate response in the face of God leading to wisdom. You can't reduce the phrase to the meanings of the individual words.
That depends on how you read it.
The idea of suffering eternally isn't biblical, but that aside assuming that some never do come to terms with the Kingdom of God exactly how God will comfort and reconcile us to their choice isn't clear. But for the world to be put right those who refuse to be part of that must, ultimately, be excluded -or exclude themselves depending how you look at it - if their minds cannot be changed. They cannot hold all creation to ransom - play "dog-in-the-manger" - forever.
I don't live in that part of the story, so the question will never arise. Jesus' sacrifice has made all others obsolete.
Genesis 1-11 is the bible's prologue. It tells in narrative terms what God's vision for creation was/is (Genesis 1-2), what went wrong (Genesis 3) and what the consequences of that are (4-5). Then we have the story of Noah (6-9). Children's versions tend to finish with the rainbow, but that misses the major point - before we get to the chapter end Noah has got drunk and it has all gone horribly wrong all over again. Then, after some other linking material we get to the story proper which begins with the call of Abraham in chapter 12. The Noah story, then, is the explanation in narrative form of why God cannot simply wipe out evil by force - the proper and necessary prolog to the story of how God will deal with evil by working in and through the family of Abraham coming to a climax in Jesus of Narareth and continuing in us.
I was not in his position and neither do I have the faith that Abraham had. Furthermore, this was a test specific to Abraham and God would never ask it of anyone today. Let me explain why this is the case: it was a test of Abraham's faith and whether he truly believed God's promise for him and believed in His faithfulness to be true to His word. Think about it: all of Isaac's life was a miracle. Firstly, he was born to aging parents after God's promise, secondly God promised that Abraham would have many descendants through Isaac and that He would bless them forever, and thirdly, God spared him from the sacrifice. I believe that the reason Abraham is called the man of faith is that a: he knew the Lord would provide (as evidenced by the name of the place that he gave it), and/or b: that God would raise his son again because of what He had promised. This is not something that God would ask of anyone else and it is foolish to suggest that He would.
Evidently all of mankind (save Noah and his family) reached a point of depravity that we have never seen in our history since then. The Bible records three times just how bad mankind was and how far we'd fallen, and in Hebrew, when you state something multiple times it is an emphasising technique. The Bible clearly states that the punishment for sin is death, and those people willing sinned and probably enjoyed their lifestyle, and so God as ultimate judge had every right to wipe them from existence. It says a lot about Him that you and I are alive today ... his mercy and love is stronger than His desire for justice. If it wasn't, we wouldn't be here.
As for the point about Mark 16:15-18, it should be noted that "the most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20" so it is foolish to base your argument on it. The original ending of Mark remains uncertain.
