Yes. And they're just as credible as Christian myths.
The savior story associated with Jesus (being crucified and hung on a tree, dying to redeem humanity, descending into the underworld after death, and being raised from the dead on the third day) isn't the first of its kind, nor is the virgin birth of a deity or performing supernatural miracles. In fact, there are other Christlike savior stories from paganism and Greek mythology that, in my opinion, are just as credible as the one about Jesus Christ, and these stories predate both Christianity and the Bible. Christianity isn't really unique.
But first he drowns them all, regardless of guilt or innocence, then repopulates the Earth with the same flawed creatures he used the first time, apparently expecting a different result.
What was that popular definition of insanity, again?
Not only did this "all-knowing" God repopulate the Earth with the same flawed creatures he used the first time before he destroyed everything in a global flood, but the Bible says that God
regretted creating humanity (
Genesis 6:6-7).
Genesis 6:6-7 says that God regretted not only creating humanity but also creating every animal and everything that crawls on the earth and the birds of the air.
There are also scriptures in the Bible that speak of God having regrets other than just creating humanity and all the animals and birds (
1 Samuel 15:11;
2 Samuel 24:16;
Jeremiah 42:10). Moreover, the Bible speaks of God relenting from the disasters that he had decided to bring down upon his own people as punishment for their transgressions against him (
Jeremiah 26:13,
1 Chronicles 21:15,
Joel 2:13).
There are Bible versions that use the word "
repent" or the
past tense of repent instead of using
relent. For the record,
Jeremiah 26:13,
1 Chronicles 21:15, and
Joel 2:13 coincide with
Isaiah 45:7 (NIV), which says, "
I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things." The New King James Version uses the word "
calamity" instead of "disaster," and the King James Version uses the word "
evil" and not "disaster" or "calamity." The word used in the verse depends on the Bible version.
I would think that a God who is said to be "all-powerful and all-knowing" would know better than to make the same mistake twice. But God did make the same mistake twice, which, in my opinion, was either incredibly dumb and ethically reckless, or he did it because he is a cruel and sadistic maniac who enjoys punishing flawed humanity for acting precisely as he originally intended for humanity to act.
