Genesis 6
The Corruption of Mankind
1Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, 2that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. 3Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." 4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." 8But Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD. 9These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. 10Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. 11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth. 13Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 14"Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. 15"This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16"You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17"Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. 18"But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark--you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19"And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20"Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21"As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them." 22Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
(listening to House of Wires 'You Are Obsolete')
Well, I don't really have questions for this chapter so if you have any questions of your own or interesting commentary for this chapter...please post it.
It's crazy to read how saddened God became over his creation, man. If the world was corrupt and man's heart was selfish and more inclined to wrong doing thing, what does God think about us now? Sometimes I just don't get people on this world? We take so much for granted. We make fun of people. We are dishonest, cheating, angry, self-centered, sexually corrupt.....etc etc etc. I do know there is good in the world and in the hearts of people. It's just that I have seen more bad than good over the past 3-4 years. Any thoughts? Or any comments on things you have been confronted with over the past few years and how you have dealt with them? etc.?
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And the LORD was sorry that he made man.
God is said here to have a change of heart. Anthropormorphic? or Did He really feel sorry that he made man? I believe He really was hurt by evil. He's been battling evil since before time. He will eventually win, but sometimes God doesn't seem to have shown up for the battle. I guess at times God may still feel sorry that he made man. But he thought the risk of having man love him was greater than the risk of having man reject him. What love! even for a pecheur comme moi!!!
it's amazing to me that an all-knowing, all-seeing God would seemingly not know the future. how can the freewill argument exist with such passages as this? if God did not love us enough to give us freewill this kind of corruption would not exist but neither would personalities, freedom, and individuals. what a loving God to allow His creation to be free even in the face of sinning.
well, cindy, i saw alot of good this past weekend and was really touched. i know how much evil exists and it seems that's all the media will pump into our homes during the news so sometimes we need a boost. this weekend did it for me. my church, 121 community church, did a missions project, which is not uncommon for our church. however, it was huge in scope and awesome. we remodeled 5 families homes over the weekend. that's pretty good for a smaller, 5 year old church. we picked 5 needed families, for example, the house i worked in had 4 kids with special needs and a single mom, sent them to a hotel for the weekend and completely redid their homes. it was incredible to see the sacrifices made by people to help this family. it's hard to look around in the world today and see any selflessness. however, without an attitude of selflessness this project would not have happened. we stayed literally working all night to finish the house. but the best was to see the reactions of the family members after the first time they walked through their new house. they saw new walls, floors, paint, and were so grateful. that was definitely the best part of the weekend and i was not alone in crying along with the family as they praised God for allowing this to happen to them. i hope this little story will help to show that Christians can outshine the darkness even if it's not as publisized as the evil.
Adam,
I am a little confused with your 1st paragraph. Do you believe in freewill or no? I think maybe you do, but you said,"How can the freewill arguement exist...?", which tends to make me think you don't. What exactly is the freewill arguement?
Cindy,
Sorry to be going off on tangents on your site. Just curious, that's all.
I love this. Discuss away! Please continue. That's what this is here for...for me to study the Bible and have some intellectual/spiritual/philisophical discussions......
i guess that did sound a bit contradictory. it was actually an accident. what i meant to say was how can the freewill argument not be strengthened by passages like this. i think i wrote it too late at night and didn't read over it before i posted it. i am definitely all about freewill and think this passage clearly points to the fact that God gave us the ability to choose and apparently Noah's contemporaries had been choosing to go against God's commands. what i meant was that it is absolutely amazing to me that an all-knowing God would love His creation enough to allow us to make decisions. sorry about the confusion...i'll try to only post when i'm at least half awake :).
Finally, someone else who believes in the continuation of a freewill after the fall!!! Thanks for responding.
Adam,
Got your note. Responded by saying that basically you are right I am in the minority in freewill thinking. Noted that DTS is moderately Calvinist because it doesn't have the guts to be hard core supralapsarian (I like that big $.50 word)
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