Caliber said-
"Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, 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"
How did the tsunami break this promise ?
Caliber, I already covered that objection in my original response, when I said that some Xian apologetists will claim that since ALL flesh (currently 7 billion) didn't die (but only 250k people died), God didn't violate the Rainbow covenant (of course, since a Worldwide Flood is simply impossible anyway, it's easy to promise NEVER to do again what never happened, in the first place).
And that's exactly why I said such catastrophic events questionably violate the spirit of the Rainbow Covenant, and quibbling on the grounds of not killing ALL humans by a flood comes off as simply laughable (and also why I said early Xians came up by massive death by FIRE in Armageddon, and not death by FLOOD: God promised NOT to drown ALL flesh, so that option was taken off the table).
Not to mention, what if God violated the Rainbow Contract? There'd be no witnesses left to His breaking of His own Divine promise, and hence no one would be able to sue Him for breach of contract (perhaps in some theoretical Heavenly Court where Jehovah also wouldn't be serving as the Judge, and the angels wouldn't fear to act against God's Will)?
In fact, a moment's thought should reveal the sheer silliness of God entering into contracts with humans, whether Mosaic or Noahide. It's merely the folly of ancient Jewish men who wrote a narrative to justify their own authority to rule over other humans... The "smoking gun" is seen in many scriptures, including Genesis 9.
Caliber, you really need to see films as "The Usual Suspects", "Wizard of Oz", "The Invention of Jying", paying careful attention to the themes of creating the ultimate bogey men in order to fear and control others. It's exactly what you see in the Bible, creating a God character in order to fool the foolish who believe in it.
Adam
