#it makes total sense that there are monsters down there whose land-dwelling counterparts were taken out by the Flood or the fall-out after

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I cannot articulate enough how much I want to hear your thoughts on octopuses being capable of sin

I can't remember specifically what brought it to mind, but I think it was some off-hand comment the Sunday school teacher made about original sin and the curse and the ark being a transition out of that age of man and into the next one, with the rest of creation being dragged along with them. Sea creatures weren't obliterated by the flood like land- and air-dwelling creatures were (though I'm sure massive flooding and planetary upheaval wasn't exactly fun for them); they didn't come under Noah's immediate jurisdiction like the other animals. Combining that with what we know of octopuses generally being as emotionally mature and blindly vindictive as a six-year-old, and my opinion is that exclusion from the ark left them fully conscious of Original Sin and fully capable of still participating in it.

It's not theologically sound in any way, but it's wildly amusing to me.