Why didn't god just resurrect 2 of every animal after the flood instead of asking Noah to stuff the boat?

Well apparently he used magic after the flood, because no plants would have been left alive. Even seeds could not have survived the flood. So why not just make all the things he wanted gone just disappear?

Would have been what a truly loving god would do, instead of making them all suffer in drowning. Plus, why were the animals punished? That makes no sense at all.

The men were evil, yet he drowns the animals also.

Altering myths doesn't achieve anything useful. Stories of a great deluge occur widely in mythology throughout the world. The biblical story of Noah is a version of a flood myth that originated in Mesopotamia and was familiar throughout the ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians (around 2500-2000 BCE).

All the known versions of this myth have the same basic outline: a deity or deities send a deluge to destroy the world, but one righteous man is fore-warned of the disaster and builds a ship in which he and his family survive the flood. After the flood has subsided, the world continues to exist and is repopulated. Similar stories include the ancient Greek myth of Deucalion, and the Hindu story of Manu; The Noah story is almost identical to that of Utnapishtim in the epic of Gilgamesh.

Perhaps at one time the end of the Flood was seen as the taming of the waters of chaos; Genesis 8:1 describes how a divine wind makes the flood waters recede, "And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided", which recalls the creation story, "a wind from God swept over the waters". In this case, the hanging up of the bow would signal the restoration of peace and harmony. God hangs up his bow in the sky as the sign of the Noachide covenant (Genesis 9), in much the same way as Marduk does after his victory over Tiamat (the goddess/dragon who was the waters of chaos) in the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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