The disconnect between the bible, and its horrific actions versus the message

A modern retelling might involve a bomb shelter and a nuclear apocalypse.There would be an awkward moment a few months after they left the Ark once they realized who their kids' marriage prospects are. Family reunion turned singles mixer.

Really? God wipes out billions of people, and from this you get the impression that God won't ever give up on people? The Noah story is a rather obvious copy of the Utnapishtim flood story in the Epic of Gilgamesh. The story in the Epic of Gilgamesh has an ark with family and animals, birds finding a branch after the flood, and a rainbow after the flood. The Noah story appears to be a retelling of a known story in a Jewish context with undertones of cultural appropriation.

That's not the point I get from the story. God gave up on a lot of people, those who weren't the one righteous person. God is telling us that if you aren't righteous then he will give up on you.

No one freely chose to drown. That was forced onto them. It's normal human behavior. We do it all of the time. Haven't you ever watched a movie? We are talking about a Creator who went out of his way to kill people. No one chose to die. The Creator chose to kill them.

This was especially so in the Exodus story where God killed the first born as punishment for Egypt's leadership not freeing the Hebrew people. Takes a special kind of evil to kill peoples' children for not doing what they tell them to. And it's not as if God has something against slavery either because he allowed the Hebrew people to put foreigners into chattel slavery.

Do you condemn those who perform abortions? If so, why don't you condemn God for the same thing?If we take the Bible at face value, abortion doctors are acting no differently than God.

It has nothing to do with me. I don't believe in God, so why would I condemn and entity that I don't believe in? I am holding God to the standard of those who believe, which would be you. If you believe that abortion doctors are wrong for killing babies, then you should think the same of God. Were Egyptian parents given their first born back? I don't doubt that. What the rest of us find contradictory is the moral double standards inherent in Christian theology. In this instance, you claim to believe in a loving God who kills peoples' children because a pharaoh won't free a specific set of people. That doesn't add up.

Why would we have to believe in the existence of a "Being" in order to determine how the Being is described in ancient writing? A religion who thinks people are wrong for not believing as they do. Shocking!! Have you read the Old Testament? God not only allows people to kill others, he commanded it.

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Samuel 15

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1 And Samuel said to Saul, c“The Lord sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the Lord. 2 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel din opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt. 3 Now go and strike Amalek and edevote to destruction17 all that they have. Do not spare them, fbut kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

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4 So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah. 5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek and lay in wait in the valley. 6 Then Saul said to gthe Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. hFor you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites. 7 iAnd Saul defeated the Amalekites from jHavilah as far as kShur, which is east of Egypt. 8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive land devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.

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God commanded his people to participate in chattel slavery. It is throughout the Old Testament. Those parents have been dead for thousands of years. 2 year old children do not deserve what? Do children also deserve to be slaves and the property of others simply because they were born into it?