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This is part of what broke my beliefs. It gets crazier than this even.
Let's put aside free will and just say it's God's will. Oh this flood happened, it must have been God's will! I ask, to what end?
The average Christian will reply "something good will come of this, you'll see, we just can't see it yet".
Okay, let's pause there. God is infinite and all powerful, correct? So, that means, in true infinity and all power, no matter what he is doing with his Devine plan, there are infinite alternative ways he could have achieved it. That's infinity. If there aren't, then he's not infinite. If he can't do some of those infinite ways, then he is not all powerful.
If he can do any of those infinite ways, then he chose this one, the one that destroyed homes and lives, he chose it out of infinite other options that wouldn't have destroyed people. There exist infinite other paths, he chose the destructive one.
So God is either not all powerful, and he's just a guy trying his best, which hey, good trying and I understand, but not "God" then. Or he's sadistic and chooses this.
That is the one that broke my faith.
I presented the same thing to a Christian last week, all it ended with is downvotes.