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Except the entire story of Noah requires one to believe that a powerful God, capable of destroying worlds and creating them, would need to ask a human to build a boat to carry animals from all over the world, including those cut off in Australia, and brave flood waters and storms rather than simply wipe out the existence of all men but those he had chosen.

It reveals the primitive's mind when it comes to the possibilities of existence. It also requires one to believe that God would destroy all animals(just because you take enough on a boat doesn't mean billions don't die) just to get at humans when all he had to do was create a virus to kill man or teleport them into the sun. Since viruses were unknown to ancient man, I guess that would be out of the question.

Except the entire story of Noah requires one to believe that a powerful God, capable of destroying worlds and creating them, would need to ask a human to build a boat to carry animals from all over the world, including those cut off in Australia, and brave flood waters and storms rather than simply wipe out the existence of all men but those he had chosen.

Ah, so your major issue with the Flood is that you think you know the mind of God?

Look, the God of the Bible has always given humans work to do for various purposes. In Noah's case, there were several distinct reasons for God to tell him to build the Ark instead of simply teleporting him and the other survivors forward in time:

1) To actually go through with such an absurd thing as building a titanic ship (pun intended) would require a leap of faith on Noah's part, and God is constantly seeking to give us the opportunity to test and prove our faith--for our benefit, not His.

2) The building of the ark stood as a warning of God's impending judgment for the 120 years of its construction. There was no one who died in the Flood who could say that they hadn't heard of the ark and the warning, or that they failed to repent out of ignorance.

3) The ark serves as a prophetic model of Jesus Christ. The name implies a sarcophagus. There was only one door to temporal salvation just as there is only one door to spiritual salvation, and only God can choose when to close it. Those in Christ will be protected from the end-time wrath of God, just as Noah and the seven others were protected from the Flood. And it is no accident that Christ was raised from the dead on the anniversery of the ark's landing on Mt. Ararat.

4) Since God told Noah to cover the ark with pitch on both the inside and the out, I believe that sometime in the near future, before the Second Coming, the ark will be irrefutably found and unveiled to the whole world to serve once again as a warning of God's judgment. (Just MHO, of course.)

God does things in strange ways. Instead of reflexively objecting that there is an "easier" way for Him to do something, why don't you try looking for the reasons that He did what the Bible says He did?

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All it shows is that God chose to do things that way, not that he "needed" to do so.

Bush uses a particular type of plane for AF1. That doesn't mean he NEEDS to use that type of plane; he could use a bigger one, a Concord, a small jet etc.

For such a "scientist," you don't have the ability to think of multiple possibilities.

It reveals the primitive's mind when it comes to the possibilities of existence. It also requires one to believe that God would destroy all animals(just because you take enough on a boat doesn't mean billions don't die) just to get at humans when all he had to do was create a virus to kill man or teleport them into the sun. Since viruses were unknown to ancient man, I guess that would be out of the question.

Well, when you get to be God, you can do it your way, but until then HE did it HIS way. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean He didn't do it.

"Oh the foolishness of men, when they are learned, they think they are wise."