Using your religious dogma in an attempt to prove your religious dogma is true is a viciously circular argument.YU
Rather petty, vindictive gods who would punish all mankind for failing a "test" they knew humans would fail.You are using the bible as evidence for the bible that is circular reasoning. We have been made in God's image right? And God is perfect right? The Most Unfortunate Design Flaws in the Human Body We have some pretty obvious design flaws.Maybe if anybody would offer a shred of evidence for the existence of the creator people would be less inclined to deny he exists? By the way, I don't deny he exists. I simply deny that I have good reason to assume he exists.
What creator are we talking about by the way? Zeus, Odin, Ra, Jaweh, Jehova, God, Inti, Budha, etc., etc. All where/are worshipped by people who displayed the same level of certainty of the existence of them.
There is evidence all around you. The heavens declare the glory of God. There is also the evidence you have inside you. Your conscience declaring there is a God. Man, himself, is evidence. He has been made in God's image. A rational, thinking, creative, loving being with a free will.
I understand what you're saying, though, I can remember when I felt the same. I always think of the blind man that Jesus healed when He walked this earth. When the people asked this man (who had been blind from birth) how it was that he could see. His reply was the same as mine and other believers, "I don't know, but once I was blind and now I can see."
True, man was created perfect but Adam and Eve ruined that. Now we inherit aging and death in our DNA (and epigenetics):
Romans 5:12
That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin,+ and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned+—.
Yes, if Christendom is right about everything going according to God's plan in their doctrines of omniscience and pre-destination. You have pointed out one of the reasons they are wrong.
Genesis 6:6 proves the opposite - otherwise why was Jehovah "hurt at heart" over the outcome?
Btw, elohim could be the literal plural "gods." However, in Scripture it is usually the plural of excellence of singular individuals. This is why Jehovah referred to Moses as elohim in Exodus 4:16; 7:1.
It really displays the weakness of the creationist argument because the creationist is forced to pick and choose those elements of the dogma that aren't contradictory. I accept that the various, largely unknown authors of the Bibles contradict each other, that scribes and translators of various languages can make errors, and in fact did. I think it is reasonable to acknowledge that one of many supreme beings allowed his "word" to be corrupted by the fallibility of man, and I know you will not see the fallacy of proffering an argument that is based on supernaturalism and alleged ''miracles".
The bible, as all the alleged holy texts has been misinterpreted and mistranslated. Now which parts are corrupt and which parts are not is the game of theologians and apologists such as yourself. But since Yahweh doesn't come on down and ref the match, the validity of one verse being questioned questions the validity of all verses. The preceeding obviously does not address the other issues of presuming supernaturalism as a mechanism for existence when never, ever, in all of human history has a supernatural event ever been demonstrated.