Proof #45: Noah's Ark — God's justice vs. the 'mass murder' charge
- Did God 'senselessly murder millions' in the flood, and why didn't He just speed up Jesus' arrival or program Adam and Eve differently?
A host (speaker-2) reads proof #45 from godisimaginary.com — 'consider Noah's Ark' — which argues the flood was 'senseless' mass murder and that the God of the Old Testament (citing Exodus 12-13, Isaiah 13, Jeremiah 49, Hosea 13, Numbers 31, Deuteronomy 3) is worse than Hitler. The hosts respond: the judgments were deserved and warned about; God is perfectly just and his ways are not ours; Job's ten children are the harder case, but life is a gift God can take back and souls are eternal. They express hope and prayer for the website's author, recommend Paul Copan's 'Is God a Moral Monster?' and 'When God Goes to Starbucks,' and preview proof #46, Pascal's wager — which a host answers on the spot with a graham-cracker analogy.
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