Joel Hendon

Why Was It Necessary That God Use A Flood To ‘Cleanse’ The Earth?


Posted: Thursday, October 20, 2011

by Joel Hendon
http://hebronics.org/index.html

I was asked that question by a young fellow one time. He wondered why God didn’t simply say something like, “Let there be a cleansed earth.” as he did in the creation. The most correct answer I could give was that He wanted to do it the way He did. I never question God’s motives nor do I ever think there would have been a better way than that He used. Bur this did arouse my curiosity a little. I have, in these good number of years decided there was perhaps a multiplicity of reasons.

Let’s think about some things. As the world apparently then was, if was protected by a water vapor barrier encircling the earth which caused a common temperature world wide. The inhabitants were protected from harmful rays of the sun plus many other features that enabled them to live to be almost a thousand years old. First of all, that would have quickly overpopulated the earth and before the technology that we now have, could have been developed.

Another thought is that God may have wanted to produce this astronomical phenomenon in order to prove His power and that he was ruler over the universe. It showed without a doubt that would indeed punish sinful people without mercy. He is a merciful God but only to those who have faith in Him and obey His instructions.

It is well to be reminded regularly, that every thing that has happened or will happen, was known and planned for, before the creation. Nothing has happened which God was unaware that it would. Many people object to this line of thinking, saying that is predestination. No, that is not. Predestination would remove man’s choice to obey or not to obey God. Foreknowledge of whether or not one will obey Him is not the same as sealing it and removing one’s choice.

Before the creation, the Godhead, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, as we refer to them, counseled together and planned the creation and life of the universe with abundant life upon the earth (Acts 2:23). Omniscience (infinite wisdom and knowledge) leaves nothing out. From the destruction of the destruction of the most distant star, to the number of physical elements in the universe, is within the scope of His knowledge. This is explained in a more understandable example in the Bible. Read this:

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? (Matthew 6:25-30)

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows. (Matthew 10:28-31 KJV)

Such infinite knowledge is beyond the comprehension of humans. You may have heard the old gospel song phrase, ‘We will understand it better by and by”. And indeed we shall. 
Author Biography: Joel Hendon was born near Gadsden Alabama. He attended public schools in Cherokee County, Alabama and after serving a tour of duty in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, attended Jacksonville State University, majoring in Business Administration. He became a Christian in 1948, and although he followed secular work as a career and retired from Allied Signal Aerospace, he is an avid student of the Holy Bible and related works as well as biblical history. He has an extensive website of conservative religious and political articles.http://hebronics.org/index.html

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