You actually bring up a good point. The reason might be found in the Book of Enoch, which I haven't read. It is said that the "Sons of God" had experimented with creating "cross breeds" of species of animals, including "cross breeding" animals with humans, but I don't believe that at all. But keeping with fictitious accounts in "Biblical times," the narrative would be to "cleanse" the Earth of those animals as well.
No...i don't think that even remotely addresses the question. Sure, you can say the animals could die because sin entered the world through man but this in no way addresses why all the animals were drowned in the Noachian flood when it was humans with whom god was ostensibly displeased.
...but why did he also kill all the animals that couldn't fit on the Ark? Were they sinners too? Why did they deserve to die?
Remember Zephaniah 1:2-3 (CEV) = "2 I, the Lord, now promise to destroy everything on this earth— 3 people and animals, birds and fish. Everyone who is evil will crash to the ground, and I will wipe out the entire human race."
death is an illusion, also your definition of perfection seems to be rooted in your own biases, perfection is beyond man’s understanding of it, God made us all perfect and death doesn’t affect it
Obviously a myth, the story told in more than one ancient culture, with small differences. Getting to the heart of common myths, look to those such as Joseph Campbell.
[@Pikachu} The biblical God's favorite pasttime is killing. He is going to be bored silly after Judgment Day with no one or nothing to kill or torture like in the good old days.
@Pikachu What a godless world we choose to live in, so we can show disgusting inhumanity in the Gaza Strip and to the Uyghur people, and destroy life on the planet through global warming. Mankind can really be proud of its achievements. No peace on Earth and goodwill towards men here, thank you, we don’t need it. We want to create a underclass so we can wallow in our greed.
Sure. But why does that mean god had to kill all the animals? He was regretful that he had made humans because they sinned so much...what did he have against the animals of the world that they had to be drowned too?
@Pikachu what's the point of continuing with this caricature then, especially since the whole context you've built starts with and is dependent on what you mean with perfection? 😅
But fair game if you don't wanna deal with that. I can't make you. And I bet this is targeting Christians again, so I hope ya find the answers you were looking for
