pakeha
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If you have the words of the god giving instructions to people on how to set up a religion based on worshipping it, let me know. ...
Ethnikos, the gods don't exist.
If you have the words of the god giving instructions to people on how to set up a religion based on worshipping it, let me know. ...
Concerning the first hilited area: Just about every animal or plant we eat is the product of genetic manipulation. If you believe in the flood as a historical fact, then you must also accept that Noah and his family came out of the ark with genetically modified seeds and animals.
As to the the second hilited area: Now you want us to accept not only the literal historical veracity of Bible, but of New Age alien abduction stories as well. For the sake of argument, if aliens or demons wished to practice genetic manipulation, they could do it by means a whole lot less invasive than abductions, which would, as well, attract much less attention.
They are working on that. What ever they came out with was from God not man or demons. The warning is there, it will be the same now as it was then.
Read into the story plot.
Indeed. Or a rain of fire, or angels descending and smiting the wicked, or clouds of selectively poisonous gas, or skull shaped spirits frying the ungodly or................You are focusing on the why-God-destroyed-the-world part. The opening post question is why a flood? Couldn't God have snapped His Fingers and popped all the evildoers out of existence? What is gained by having 5-year-old children spending their hour Earth in sheer terror?
Indeed. Or a rain of fire, or angels descending and smiting the wicked, or clouds of selectively poisonous gas, or skull shaped spirits frying the ungodly or................
Lack of imagination on the part of the authors I'd guess.
"When Yip-yips Walked the Earth!"Packs of vicious Chihuahuas.
Or, as I like to call them, "land piranha".