Was the animal genocide of Noah?s day justified?

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Was the animal genocide of Noah?s day justified?

Many Christian and Catholics justify the killing of the human population of Noah?s day, including the innocent children and babies as a judgment against an evil population. They were evil children and babies and are to be fodder for hell along with their parents.

I recognize that the genocide of man has been argued forever and believers have no problem with that particular genocide and I do not want to rehash that particular issue. All one need do is recognize that the notion of free will did not exist back then for the population and move on.

Having killed many animals, even by hand, and not being bothered by it, I can tell you that at a certain number, even my hard stomach and heart begins to be upset and I have to take a break from the slaughter of these food animals.

I just cannot find any justification for the slaughter of the earths animal population at the time of Noah. Some say that animals have souls the same as humans but frankly I cannot see God putting souls into what He has said is meat to us.

It cannot be said then that animals are evil because they cannot discern good and evil. Only man and God can do such.

The only reason I can think of for the slaughter and genocide of the animals is then cruelty. God could have easily spared all of them and did not.

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Humans aside.
Was God just being cruel to His perfectly created animals or is there some other motivator that I am missing?

No adding to scripture now.

Regards
DL

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@Greatest I am cv,

Is this leading into a 'Have animals souls' debate?
They have btw if there is such a thing as a soul or its consciuos equivalent.
Bit arrogant/convinient to justify the slaughter of animals for food as them being minor living beings,humans were once considered food too by humans.Oh those godly creatures in the image of god....Share your heaven with pigs and cockroaches and moscitos.

Anyway the flood story and the purging of most living things is bs
And did the pie in the sky speak and say everything is food,lets eat god -ah thats done symbolically,catholics have that wafer thingy.
The closest thing to mass extinction is the comet theory.There is no scientific evidence of a mass purge of humanoids.

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@synthy,

synthy;70454 wrote:

Is this leading into a 'Have animals souls' debate?
They have btw if there is such a thing as a soul or its consciuos equivalent.
Bit arrogant/convinient to justify the slaughter of animals for food as them being minor living beings,humans were once considered food too by humans.Oh those godly creatures in the image of god....Share your heaven with pigs and cockroaches and moscitos.

Anyway the flood story and the purging of most living things is bs
And did the pie in the sky speak and say everything is food,lets eat god -ah thats done symbolically,catholics have that wafer thingy.
The closest thing to mass extinction is the comet theory.There is no scientific evidence of a mass purge of humanoids.

The question spoke to justification.
Not the reality of the flood.

It is said that men of intelligence can discuss things they do not believe in.

Regards
DL

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