One day soon, I will get back to answering the 40 Questions for Christians.  For now, let’s just do a quick meme that one of my atheist friends shared.  I’ll tackle part of it today, and part of it tomorrow.

So what we have here is supposedly God’s to do list.  Each has an actionable item and two of them supply a reason for the action.  Three actions are correct, while one is question-begging.  Neither reason is correct.

First, Appeal to Motive is a logical fallacy.  However, it is relevant here because it is the bottom line reason this author gets so much wrong.  The author has a man-centric viewpoint.  God’s actions are meant to glorify himself, not win our approval.  While that makes God sound like a selfish prick, remember that his actions are also rooted in a deep, abiding love for humanity in general, and his elect in particular.  The writer of this meme pictures God as begging for our approval, while the correct picture is us begging for his forgiveness of our sins.

With that out of the way (1) is correct and needs no expounding.

The action item of (2) is absolutely correct.  But no reason?  To the text:

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.” (Gen 6:5-7)

The text goes on to say, “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.”  (Gen 6:11-12)  Man is corrupt.  All that he thinks about is evil.  The earth is corrupt, violent.  All flesh (men) is corrupted.  So horrible is this corruption that God is grieved that he ever made humans, and decides that the one course of action is to simply destroy them.  All except one man:  Noah.

Think about this for a minute.  The human race is compared to a single human several times throughout the Bible.  So let’s go with that.  If you have a gangrenous limb, and the only solution is amputation, wouldn’t you do that instead of succumbing to death?  This is similar, but in reverse.  God found it necessary to rid the earth of people so that the one righteous one could continue.

Whether you agree with the reason or not is immaterial.  It’s just plain wrong to claim that there is no reason.