[ari-freedom]

No, a comet did not cause the Flood. That would imply that G-d created it and set it on its cataclysmic journey many years before there was a sin to punish.

[P8riot]

No, a comet did not cause the Flood. That would imply that G-d created it and set it on its cataclysmic journey many years before there was a sin to punish.

It fits very well with the divine cause. If you believe that God is sovereign, and that he has pre-ordained history. He predestined mankind to sin and planned for the punishment as well.

[RegulatorCountry]

That would imply that G-d created it and set it on its cataclysmic journey many years before there was a sin to punish.

The God of the Biblical flood is all-knowing, and exists outside of time. So, there is no "before," other than from our own, linear, historical perspective, which even science is beginning to admit is more akin to an illusion.

[ovrtaxt]

Mankind had been around for about 1400 years when the flood happened. According to Genesis, there was plenty of sin to judge.

[fish hawk]

And you don’t think that God could have done that? My
God is bigger and better than your God, in that case. (if God IS God, He would know the future as well as the past)

[aruanan]

No, a comet did not cause the Flood. That would imply that G-d created it and set it on its cataclysmic journey many years before there was a sin to punish.

Or that a passing comet was nudged at the appropriate moment to send it into the earth to punish sin. Or that a comet was created at the needed moment to send it into the earth to punish sin. Or that God foresaw the growth of human sin and created a comet that would come when needed to punish human sin, etc, etc, etc.

[rdl6989]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14WAVE.html?pagewanted=all

[Lazamataz]

No, a comet did not cause the Flood. That would imply that G-d created it and set it on its cataclysmic journey many years before there was a sin to punish.

My God said He's gonna kick your God's a&&.

[Churchjack]

That great Comet Calvin, eh?