Well, I'd have to repeat Infinitarian's criteria (assuming the Bible with internal consistency, and taking it on its own merits rather than externals etc, etc), but also...
It seems in the Flood story that God thinks everyone but Noah & Co is a total write-off, and so sends the Flood to kill them. (This is very strange to write after playing Halo, by the way!)
On the other hand, lots later in the New Testament, God sees a whole bunch of evil and sin in the system again. This time, however, He (again, like the Infinitarian, I don't think of God as 'He', but we're talking about the OT) thinks that humankind might be worth saving, and sends Jesus down to do it.
So I don't think He's got caught out on his 'no more floods' thing. More that He sees more potential this time round, and acts accordingly.
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Date: 2004-11-15 04:57 am (UTC)It seems in the Flood story that God thinks everyone but Noah & Co is a total write-off, and so sends the Flood to kill them. (This is very strange to write after playing Halo, by the way!)
On the other hand, lots later in the New Testament, God sees a whole bunch of evil and sin in the system again. This time, however, He (again, like the Infinitarian, I don't think of God as 'He', but we're talking about the OT) thinks that humankind might be worth saving, and sends Jesus down to do it.
So I don't think He's got caught out on his 'no more floods' thing. More that He sees more potential this time round, and acts accordingly.