Whatever those folks (except for Noah) were doing that inspired God to “wipe the slate clean” must’ve paled in its degree of badness as compared our current state of horribleness. No? Well, what the heck is he/ she waiting for? Can’t find a “Noah” this time?
He made a rainbow promise that he wouldn’t do it again…
Nope; I’ve every confidence that humanity is far better in almost every respect than it ever has been. People are better educated, healthier, better fed, longer-lived, more open-minded and less prone to violence than ever in the history of the world.
On the other hand the flood situation here in York is pretty alarming.
Existence?
Yes, but that was only a promise that there would be no more destruction by water. The next such (indeed, greater) destruction will be by fire.
To answer the OP, the Flood was a one-time event; I don’t think it’s like there is a critical mass of evilness that, once it is reached, prompts God to do a cleansing. It is true that in the End Times (such as shown in Revelations, etc.) that ultimately everyone will die or be Raptured but that isn’t Flood 2.0, it’s more “The End Times are the end” - at least, as I understand it.
Wasn’t the flood just a gigantic myth based on the fact that the black sea flooded and all the cultures near the area invented a flood mythology?
Either way, as others have said humans are better now than they’ve ever been.
Compare the rates of child abuse, torture, starvation, disease, charity, etc. from thousands of years ago to now, there is no comparison.
How exactly can I compare those rates? And why would God have punished people for starving and having diseases?
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Yeah…“they” engaged in regular human sacrifice and Trump said some mean things on Twitter. They regularly had generational slavery and burnt entire cities down cause God told them too (wait, that was POST NOAH)…while in our time some professor was fired for misgendering. MONSTER.
Talk about your Greatest Generation logical fallacy.
Presumably the events described in the Book of Revelations to unfold?
Was “human sacrifice” specifically mentioned by God as a reason for the flood? I’ve read about all the “wickedness” and vaguely alluded to “violence” as being a motivation (and “sin” in general) but all-in-all we’re pretty darn sinful nowadays. And pretty violent in a modern sense.
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Or else it is just based on one of very large regular floods that every civilization encounters every few hundred years, which then made its way in the folk lore. “You think this flood is bad well let me tell you a story about a real flood”
Yeah, you need to read the fine print.
Many years ago someone posted a compendium of flood legends on talk.origins. It was fascinating. (I think there were over 50, maybe 100). Many had the survivors landing, the last people on earth, and then some more people came over the hill.
The ancients were not very logically consistent.
Trump, the energy companies, and the other climate change denying scum are doing a good job preparing for a new inundation without the need for more rain.
In Genesis the problem seems to be more the sons of God shtupping mortals. Child sacrifice is not mentioned. Given that when God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac Abraham knew what he was talking about, I’d think the practice continued after the flood.
As I recall from reading Genesis, Noah was kind of a dick. So were Lot and Jacob. God’s standard for finding favor might not square with yours or mine.
We are much, much, much better. The scariest part in modern times was the nuclear standoffs, but even in the handful of years before the Soviets got their bomb, it’s still a wonder the US didn’t use it again.
Quite frankly, despite the horrors of the Holocaust and other events of the period, it’s hardly out of the ordinary, except that higher population means higher death rate.
Here’s something an ancient guy was proud of. It wasn’t propaganda to turn people against him.
I have no doubt you have volumes of well researched data for the prebiblical era so I’m sure your every confidence is well founded.
Mind you, people for good or ill, are restricted by the technology of their times.
And hey, if someone subscribes to the belief that man marches towards betterment as a matter of course, was a flood necessary?
In the Ethiopian bible, there is the book of Enoch, wherein the pre-flood people include half-human giant cannibals. If so, that doesn’t seem to be something that has been repeated.
What’s the earliest documented instance of an evil human? IIRC, none of the characters in Iliad or Odyssey were presented as evil. Setting aside war, and sacrifice — which was “religious”, not “evil” — do you have a cite for child abuse or torture during the Neolithic?
BTW, while the Black Sea flooding was a major event (What’s the latest news from archaeologists?), I’d heard there were too many major floods in the Near East (albeit none as colossal as the Black Sea’s) to be confident that any single flood led to the myth.