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Almost everyone, non-believers and believers seems to be familiar with the Flood story. This raises a few uncomfortable questions for Christians but unfortunately this seems to be a topic of choice for the skeptic to easily conclude that “if God is all loving and all peace” then why would he destroy everyone, including innocent babies and pregnant women? Therefore either the Judeo-Christian God does not exist or He is evil” So how does one sincerely answer this difficult objection? First we need to understand that since the skeptic is using the Bible as a reference for their argument then it’s only fair that they take the Bible as a whole. I wanted to illustrate an example to support my reasoning.

“No one knows the character of Harry Potter unless they watch his movie or book. One can easily select a random paragraph and find Harry Potter killing a monster and use that as the basis for his argument-that Harry Potter is evil. That is opaque and unjustifiable to the character due to the limited view. But when we expand our scope and read the chapter, we can then see the reasoning behind it: Harry Potter killed that monster because it was evil. We now have a more definitive understanding of Harry Potter. However, when we read or watch the entire series, we now then have an overall view to make accusations and conclusions on who Harry Potter actually is as a character based on the sum of all details of his actions and what the reader tells us about him. We can obviously identify that Harry Potter is indeed a courageous Hero trying to rid all evil and restore peace and harmony.”

This is the same for the Bible. We must grasp it as a whole to understand the centralized theme of God’s purpose and who God actually is. Now this may be an open invitation for a nonbeliever to state circular reasoning. But that is not the case. If one is to use the Bible as a source for their argument then it is reasonable to use the same material to draw an opposing argument.

So what does the Bible tells us about God?

* God is just
* God is love
* God hates evil
* God can not contradict himself or He wouldn’t be God
* His ways are higher than our ways
* We are limited in our knowledge
* He knows the final outcome

Some may argue that God is supposed to be all love. Yes that is true but God is also all just. God cannot be more love than He is just. It is perfectly balanced. He must punish those that sin and he detest sin because it interrupts peace and harmony. Also, it wouldn’t make sense for God to be a judge and be unrighteous Himself. His perfection is the standard and reference to our judgment.

With that being said, let’s move on to the Flood account. Just to review, the Flood occurred in the times of Noah where every man and beast, with the exception of Noah, his family, and 2 of each animal in the ark, were destroyed. Genesis tells us that during this time:

* Men’s hearts were wicked and all they thought of was evil all the time (Genesis 6:5)
* The Earth was corrupt and full of violence (Genesis 6:11)
* The holiness of people were gone and completely corrupted (Genesis 6:12)
* The Earth was so evil it made God’s heart grieve in pain that He made them (Genesis 6:6-7)

We could only imagine how vile and wicked the Earth was, to the point where God was heart-broken. Remember, since God is all-knowing, He knew that mankind was headed towards eventual self-destruction unless He intervened. But through his mercy He gave us hope by starting all over again and wiping the Earth of all evil except the righteous.

So what about the babies? This is probably one of the most difficult ones to answer. We must understand that God is the sovereign creator of life and as the creator, He has every right to take life because it belongs to Him. I do not have the right to take your life because I do not own it.

Furthermore, if God did not put a stop to all this evil, mankind would surely perish and you probably wouldn’t be reading this as we speak. We know that before God flooded the Earth, innocent babies were already dying from the evil and warfare. If they didn’t die young, the chances are that they probably would grow up to be evil and thus continue on with the endless cycle of mass evil.

But let’s say that God didn’t allow the babies to die and rid the evil of only mature men, women, and those at the age of accountability. Who then would nurse all those millions of babies? They would eventually suffer a slow death from animal attacks, the heat, freezing to death, starvation, and thirst. This is by far crueler then a quick death. It is easy to see that God is preventing the babies from impending cruelty. God could have chose to keep the babies alive however the Bible does not really state as to exactly why he didn’t. We just know that God chose that method for a higher reason that we could think of.

The skeptic also has a hidden assumption that all death is evil and the final outcome which is not true. When you understand that you understand the fate of the innocent babies.

The Bible gives the titles to babies as “innocent” (Jeremiah 19: 4, Jeremiah 2:34, Jonah 4: 11, Job 3: 16)

Ecclesiastes 6: 3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he ­ 4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man, 6 even if he lives a thousand years twice ­ but has not seen goodness. Do not all go to one place?

Matthew 19: 14 But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” (NKJV)

Matthew 18: 14 Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

In summary, The Bible makes it clear that God had a grand purpose for the flood and if these babies were innocent then they would surely be in the protective hands of the merciful God and in Heaven, experiencing eternal paradise.

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