What i think about the Bible and its story.

The story of Noah's ark and the flood is widespread that even if you are not a Christian, you probable have heard about it at least once. The book of Genesis tells stories of God and his unbelievable miracles such as the Creation, and the story Noah and the flood is one of them. Since other religious text contains similar story, and many scientists have found evidences of the existence of the flood, it is current trend to accept that there was a great flood in the history of Earth.
Regardless of the truthfulness of the flood, I think Noah and the Flood serves more than just a story but has greater purpose. As a little child when I first heard this story from a Church, the only impression was simple and obvious, “wow! How great God is and how much he loves us!” Now I grew older and read this, I tend to think more philosophically. If the Great Flood really happened and it was intended, we as human beings, have to accept the fact that greater or ultimate being really exists, we call him God. As we read from the story, God has power to punish humans for our own sins and because we know that God is watching our behaviors, this story sets pressures to have some kind of codes of conducts for us to follow. To prevent any other disasters like the Flood, the Bible is suggesting certain commandments for us to obey.
However, many questions arose in my head. Why am I getting a feeling that the Bible is using human’s fear of miracles and disasters to make us obey God? As God’s point of views, we might be very naive and insignificant which Bible denied to agree on. But he created human beings and made us obey him by performing remarkable miracles and disasters. Why doesn't he just program us to obey him automatically? According to Bible, God respects our free will. Then what other greater purposes can he possibly have for creating us when we don’t believe in him, then we are considered exempt from Jesus’ salvation or abandoned from heaven? I once asked a pastor what are God's purposes of creation and he answered, "We won't ever know his purpose like when you are talking to a newborn baby, he won't understand what you are telling him." What a great excuse!

PS. no offense for all the Christians who will be reading this note. This is just what I think.