Noah and the Ark

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Originally Posted by Aquila

I see this as a problem rooted in the lack of systematic theology. In the Old Testament you have a series of covenants. The Mosaic Covenant established a nation of people. This nation of people was to preserve the Word of God (the Bible) and provide a righteous blood line from which Messiah would be born. With God’s people being a nation you have to remember that the nations surrounding Israel were hostile not only to God but to God’s people. Had the Amalekites had their way every innocent Israelite would have been slaughtered and then there would be no Bible or Messiah to redeem mankind; same with the Philistines and the entire host of Israel’s enemies.

You also have to consider… all these nations belong to God. God alone has the authority to order the destruction of a nation. God alone knows their hearts. God alone knows the end from the beginning and what is necessary to preserve His Word and to redeem mankind.

When Jesus came on the scene the Tanakh was complete and being widely read throughout the Roman Empire in synagogues. Jesus atoned for mankind and now the Messianic mission was complete. When the Jews rejected Jesus they sealed their fate as a nation. It was because of their rejection of Jesus that God sent the Romans to destroy Jerusalem and take the people captive into all the nations. Now preserving a nation to harbor His Word and to birth the Messiah was unnecessary. The full message of salvation was complete for all of mankind. Now we live by the law of love that God intended from the beginning.

In addition, “Thou shalt not kill.”, is better translated, “Thou shalt not murder.”

Is it murder to put a sword through the belly of a child? How about an elderly person who is helpless? What about a woman who is pregnant?

Your explanation is full of holes (maybes, what ifs, might be's), not to mention a human being has always been a human being.

Today, there are hostile Nations on Earth that declare the Christian Faith a False Doctrine. The Country of Iran has leadership that considers Israel an all out threat to Planet Earth and would like to blow them off the map. Would a mass genocide of this Nation be accepted today? The Philistines still live next door to the Jews. Why not Nuke them?

Why shouldn't we have exterminated the Germans? Allow the Jews to go into this Country that attempted to genocide them.

You make it sound like it was different back then. The World has always been hostile. The theories you present are what all do to protect a false idea. It's "Out of Sight, Out of Mind". It's not today, so it's easy to explain it away with notions that are not only inhumane, but downright evil.

Bring genocide into your backyard, then judge. Look into the faces of these dead people, or watch the slaughter take place, then give us your theory.

Also, the full message to Mankind was not finished in Word when Jesus came. The New Testament hadn't even been written yet.