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Not by any god(s), as the story goes.
It is your opinion I am asking for. Did his actions as a serial killer preclude him from entering this theoretical heaven?
Couching it in a relevant term, do you still have to ask the question? Why can you not see that these are stories about judgment? Surely you have also seen the claims here that God is somehow "all loving, all good," etc etc? Well, no. Clearly not. We are in fact judged for even THINKING that! God will do good, and He will do evil. He's kinda adamant about that, and making sure we know it.
So the lessons about Divine Judgment teach us about Divine Judgment. Not such a stretch, is it? Now, what did you want to know about Divine Judgment? You already know we don't have clear answers about that, other than Judgment based on works.
See there, using appropriate terms DOES matter! Judgment is NEVER about race. Compare that terrible thinking to what Scripture actually says, and then see what you come up with.
See, this is where it gets more difficult. Obviously children aren't a threat in war - or are they? Male children can be QUITE damaging beginning at a pretty young age, and if anything was different in this time and culture this was even moreso back then. So I can't say that has nothing to do with it, but its only one factor. I won't attempt to speak for you but at the ripe old age of 4 if I had seen invading hordes kill the older men in my family and make off with the women, I wouldn't have grown up as an obedient child. I would've been sabotaging everything I could, and plotting the unseemly demise of my captors. I would've also spread that kind of spirit to those around me everywhere I could, and been quite difficult to detect.
So yeah, that counts as warlike.
And yet that really misses the larger point. What do you know about the purpose of the flood?
You mentioned earlier that those who remained were "warlike" and therefore deserved to be destroyed.
No I didn't. Listening isn't your forte, is it? Prefer making stuff up?
No, its an overbearingly relevant point. Relevance doesn't seem to matter to you and I have no idea what you're looking for except to argue for its own sake. I'm not into it.
I'm just not up for engaging this foolishness.
You're not looking to understand anything, you just want to come on a Christian website to bash Christians. You think we need to tolerate that why?
When I first joined this website I did so as a Christian.
Your assumptions about my motivations are wrong.
What was your name?
Prove it.
And why exactly should I reciprocate by answering your questions when you have no interest in answering my own?
Sincere people don't use euphemisms. You're not here to understand anything, but merely to bash.
No speculation needed, I've told you point blank. If you are what you say you are surely you know the relevant Scripture.
Nothing but abuse - yup that's Arch
Questions are fine, you just don't have any.
So now you are going to pretend that I haven't actually asked anything?
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