Mariusuk, wrote "If you kill a lot of innocent people it is murder. If you believe for example the flood actually happened and God caused said flood that means he killed a hell of a lot of innocent children and babies. You can play around with justifications all day long but if a human did that he/she would be demonised kind of like Hitler and Stalin were. The God of the bible has all the characteristics of the war mongering people of the time strangely enough......... coincidence?"
Let me talk about the reason for the flood for a moment. I'll try to make this short. Lets read Genesis 6:1-4
1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Now Satan's whole purpose of the "Nephilim/giants/Rephaim" race was to pervert man and corrupt his gene pool/seed. He was trying to pre-empt Jesus coming in the flesh as a man and reedeming mankind. The people of Noah's day were more than just evil at face value (children included), they had a tainted bloodline from the Fallen Angels. God had to wipe them out or man's DNA would've gone past the point of being "pure", humanly speaking. Jesus died for MAN, not some satanic hybrid. The Hebrew term "Rephaim" literally means "the living dead". This coincides with the fact that this "race" of people were already doomed for death, for God had not given them life. Their soul couldn't be reedemed because of their mixed non human blood. I firmly believe this race of "man" is where the Greek, Egyptian, Norse, etc foklore comes from. Same goes for the making of megaliths worldwide (Stonehenge for example) and other large structures made by ancient man that confuses modern architects today. Consider the flooring of the ancient temple Baalbek. Each solid piece of rock is the size of a train rail car (or larger), carved and neatly set into place! http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/02feb/baalbekII.html
On verse 9 we read "9These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."Noah (and family) were perfect in his/their GENERATIONS, and this is why God spared them through the flood only. It wasn't because they were perfect people but rather perfect with no tainted bloodline. This is also the reason of the Caanan conquests/killings and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Lets read Jude 1:6-7
6And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
7Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
As we can see here in the New Testament, Sodom and Gomorrah had been intermarrying with strange flesh aka the Fallen ones.
I can expound futher if anyone cares to discuss.......now release the arrows.