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Originally Posted by Deus Vult
He told me His world needed to be cleansed of all non-believers, like the flood He brought down upon Noah and the hellfire he brought to Sodom and Gomorrah.
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There are a couple of problems there. Firstly, although the global flood cleansed the world of all non-believers, God will not be doing anything of the sort again.
Genesis 9:8-11
8– God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying.…
11 I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
So nothing like that will be happening again. God doesn't want to do it, God has promised not to do it and we have His assurance in the form of rainbows. The next problem concerns Sodom and Gomorrah. There are two parts to this which I'm calling 1. and 2.
- source of the fire
- Genesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven
- extent of the fire
- Genesis 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground
Allowing "the cities of the plain" an area approximating to the Dead Sea, you can see that although the destruction was by fire (and brimstone) (from Heaven) it was not very extensive compared to the size of the central island feature where this extermination took place. The Dead sea is marked in orange.
This sort of problem often arises when people follow heretical, altered and abridged versions of The Bible. We do know that God will be using Fire in future and that Jesus will be exterminating several billion for declining His Perfect Love.
II Peter 3:3-12
3-7 There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.…
10-12 The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?