Reply #5: Expanding on what Mr. Thomas says about Genesis: [View All]

[mgc1961]

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require reckoning for the life of man.

Genesis 9:1-5 ESV

This says that all of us, animals included, should make some amends for eating flesh although what the mending entails is not spelled out.

The next verses touch on something I think the likes of Pat Robertson and his ilk should be reminded of whenever they claim flood waters (tsunamis, hurricanes, etc...) are God's wrath upon the wicked:

Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the bird, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark: it is for every beast of the earth. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth." God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.

Genesis 9:8-17 ESV

That passage clearly states that when the waters rise hereafter, it won't be God's doing. It should also make clear to the biblically minded that destroying the atmosphere which in turn will cause a disastrous rise in sea levels will be man's own undoing.