Just playing devil’s advocate here folks…
Here are my thoughts as to how this could all be explained
that the flood was needed. I thought of all of this as a young man after
reading “Angels and Women” (which I wrote about in my first book I found in the
Bethel library.)
This was my thinking on why the flood had to happen:
First, the Nephilim blood line needed to be taken out of the
human gene pool.
Satan did his level best to completely “ruin” God’s creation
by introducing an abomination of Angel/Women hybrids. This “ruined” the Earth,
not just with violence itself, but with violent beings who were part of the
gene pool. Getting rid of this gene pool could not be done in one fell swoop
however. At least one of Noah’s son’s wives could have had some of that nasty
blood-line in her, so it persisted even after the flood. It persisted to a
lesser degree however, but showed up later in the “sons of Anakin” you know,
Goliath like people. But God wiped them all out as because He insisted that the
Isrealites never intermarry with these folks. This drastic measure wasn’t just for
religious purity, it was for the genetic elimination of the Nephilim once and
for all. Thus, the genocide of many peoples written about in the books of Moses
were spelled out specifically. With the last of those people gone, the last of the
Nephilim bloodline was gone too. Gene pool ruination score: God 1, Satan 0.
Second, the Earth itself needed to be changed.
I never could figure out exactly why God didn’t make the
Earth the way it is now right from the start, but it seems that the old Earth,
one with a water canopy above and a fountain of water below had to change. What
God would have done to cause this change should Adam NOT have sinned, I haven’t
the foggiest idea. Maybe he would have had them build a TON of arks to save
themselves. Or maybe God just knew ahead of time Adam would sin and the Earth
would have to change in this way anyway… unknown answer… It is a very philosophical
question actually, did God KNOW Adam would sin? Of course! He’s omniscient. But
knowing something would happen and being responsible for it are two different
things. He gave men free will to screw up in lieu of creating robots who did as they were programmed. But He knew which route they would take too.
Anyway, the Earth changed, continents moved, polar ice caps
formed, mountains formed, deserts formed, the Grand Canyon formed, Wooly
Mammoths are trapped in ice with buttercups in their mouths, etc. Without the
flood, the Earth wouldn’t look like it does now. Which is freaking beautiful. Anyway, that was my theory as
a child.
Third, to show God’s power
The flood is used in the Bible as a cautionary tale and an
indicator of how God can and will step in on a worldwide scale when He decides
to. Yes wickedness returned after the flood, but that was because it was still baked into us. Yes, He could use Angels to do his work again (and has, example 185,000 Assyrian
soldiers killed by one Angel in one night), but he also can use nature itself.
The Red Sea, the giant hailstones, serpents, earthquakes opening up and
swallowing, etc. All of this is to be a precursor of even an even greater
display of God’s wrath on the entire Earth during judgement day. I had always
imagined that God would use every kind of destructive force when he decided to…
floods, earthquakes, angels, animals, pestilence, fire, brimstone, hailstones,
Donald Trump tweets…
Again, Devil’s advocate…
Now, go ahead and tear this apart… :)
