The Christian God is demonstrably evil therefore not a reliable source of salvation/afterlife

Genesis 6:7 So the LORD said, "I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them." I do not see how this would make God "evil." (I think this argument will revert in part to a semantics argument over evil, so I will give a definition to kick it off) "evil |ˈēvəl| adjective • (of a force or spirit) embodying or associated with the forces of the devil : we have been driven out of the house by this evil spirit. • harmful or tending to harm : the evil effects of high taxes. • (of something seen or smelled) extremely unpleasant : a bathroom with an evil smell." First, I would like to assume that you didn't mean the third definition. The 1st definition is ludicrous and would be next to impossible to defend, so I assume that you didn't mean that one either. So what you are saying is that God is "harmful or tending to harm." "harmful |ˈhï¿½rmfəl| adjective causing or likely to cause harm : shield the planet from harmful cosmic rays | sugars that can be harmful to the teeth." If you go by this definition, your point about Noah and his ark is not valid, because as can be seen later in Genesis (6:8) God promises never to do it again: "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease." In this sense God is not tending to harm because after doing it once he never intends to repeat it. From your argument one may argue that he is not omnipotent, but not evil. It may also be argued that God WAS evil, before he caused the flood, but now he isn't, because, as you might be able to tell, he has not repeated the flood despite the evil that humans commit today. Additionally, I would like to take into account that not only were the humans corrupt, but the earth too had become corrupt. To save all species and allow them to live in a world where the very land they tread was not evil He had to destroy the world. It was only Mercy and love (Not a common trait of evil) that made Him allow any of the creatures He created live. He created them, and like destroying the failed clay models in your pottery class, He destroyed the 'bad ones' "And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 13 And God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth" Finally I would like to end my turn with a bit of a question: God created earth, he created the universe, he created us and he created our minds. Doesn't that mean that he has a better grasp of morals, of what is better for us in the larger picture then we could ever have? "First God made heaven & earth 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. 3 " ------------- Now for a few notes: 1. antediluvian is an adjective and you used it as a noun. 2. Thanks for the argument so far, I can tell it will be fun already! 3. Sorry about the weird symbols by the definitions, the pronunciations get changed into those, but I can't really change a quote. ------------- http://www.bibleontheweb.com... I used many passages from several chapters.