Why God Judged the World with a Flood

A topic that causes a great deal of discussion is the global Genesis Flood, and especially why it happened in the first place. There are many details that can be covered (and have been by others) which would make this post excessively long.

I was in a discussion the other day, and the method of the Judgment caused some speculation. God could have sent a plague, stopped atoms in their paths and everything would instantly disintegrate, or something else. Yet he chose t0 send a global deluge.

Noah's Ark, Pixabay / Jeff Jacobs

There were several reasons for the Judgment that can be summed up by saying that humanity had become violently evil all the time. It may be hard for some folks to accept, but God is sovereign and has the right to judge people. He is holy, mankind is sinful. In his mercy, he saved eight people and many critters to start repopulating the world after the Flood.

When reading the Old Testament, there are several instances where people set up stones as monuments, such as in Joshua 4:21-24. They were to be visual reminders of certain events, and also as teaching aids. We live in a wrecked world, scarred by the Flood. (It is beautiful even so, and we cannot imagine its antediluvian splendor.) It should be a reminder of what happened in the past — and a warning. Unfortunately, there are misotheists and others who deny the Flood ever happened (2 Peter 3:3-7).

Another Judgment is coming. In Luke 17:26-27, Jesus tells us that the final days will be like it was in the time of Noah. There are people who think we are there now, but it is not true that people have only evil thoughts continually (Genesis 6:5). I think something that slows the downward spiral is the presence of the Holy Spirit. He is indwelling true Christians and we may be influencing others to do good.

The Ark was the means of saving a few who believed in the time of the Flood. The next Judgment also has an Ark that will save those who have faith, and that Ark is Jesus Christ.

Answers to various objections concerning the Flood—both scientific and practical—that skeptics have raised over the years have been published in many creationist books, films/videos, and magazines, so in this article we shall discuss the reasons why the Flood occurred.

You can read it all at "Noah’s Flood—why?"