.
• Gen 6:5 . . And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth,
and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time.
Man's descent into depravity didn't catch his creator by surprise. After all;
not only can God see the future but He can also manipulate it; so He was
well aware even before beginning that the people He was about to create
were destined from day one for a global deluge.
Also, when God inspected His handiwork at Gen 1:31, He evaluated it not
just good, but "very" good. So as far as He was concerned; everything went
smoothly and according to plan-- nothing was broken, no parts were
missing, and nothing failed to mate with its matching part.
• Gen 6:6 . . And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth,
and He became grieved in His heart.
When God created the people of man, it was no doubt with the awareness
that the day would come when He would have to put a number of them
down like dogs gone mad with rabies.
If it can be safely assumed that God saw man's depravity coming well in
advance-- prior to creating even one of the many forces, energies, and
particles that would go into the construction of the cosmos --then we have
to wonder why it is that He felt remorse for going ahead as planned. Surely
it wasn't because He made a terrible mistake. I seriously doubt that a
master architect with the creator's intelligence would fail to foresee every
possible ramification of their actions.
Well; it's at least comforting to know the destruction of life is not something
God enjoys as if He were an outdoor guy who kills fish and wildlife for sport
with no more sensitivity than a kid blasting aliens in a video game. Man's
creator knew the day was coming when He would have to do what He was
about to do next, and clearly wasn't looking forward to it, but nevertheless;
leaves us with unavoidable questions about His sanity because from a
rational perspective, God's procedures make no sense at all.
Anyway, aside from all that; it appears to me that God had high
expectations for the people of man, and was very disappointed that numbers
of them went bad; sort of like how parents feel when a kid, whom they've
given every privilege, every opportunity, and every advantage imaginable,
lets it all go overboard and somehow ends up incorrigible and a total failure
instead.
• Gen 6:7 . . And the Lord said: I will blot out man, whom I created, from
upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle to creeping thing, to the fowl
of the heavens, for I regret that I made them.
_
• Gen 6:5 . . And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth,
and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time.
Man's descent into depravity didn't catch his creator by surprise. After all;
not only can God see the future but He can also manipulate it; so He was
well aware even before beginning that the people He was about to create
were destined from day one for a global deluge.
Also, when God inspected His handiwork at Gen 1:31, He evaluated it not
just good, but "very" good. So as far as He was concerned; everything went
smoothly and according to plan-- nothing was broken, no parts were
missing, and nothing failed to mate with its matching part.
• Gen 6:6 . . And the Lord regretted that He had made man upon the earth,
and He became grieved in His heart.
When God created the people of man, it was no doubt with the awareness
that the day would come when He would have to put a number of them
down like dogs gone mad with rabies.
If it can be safely assumed that God saw man's depravity coming well in
advance-- prior to creating even one of the many forces, energies, and
particles that would go into the construction of the cosmos --then we have
to wonder why it is that He felt remorse for going ahead as planned. Surely
it wasn't because He made a terrible mistake. I seriously doubt that a
master architect with the creator's intelligence would fail to foresee every
possible ramification of their actions.
Well; it's at least comforting to know the destruction of life is not something
God enjoys as if He were an outdoor guy who kills fish and wildlife for sport
with no more sensitivity than a kid blasting aliens in a video game. Man's
creator knew the day was coming when He would have to do what He was
about to do next, and clearly wasn't looking forward to it, but nevertheless;
leaves us with unavoidable questions about His sanity because from a
rational perspective, God's procedures make no sense at all.
Anyway, aside from all that; it appears to me that God had high
expectations for the people of man, and was very disappointed that numbers
of them went bad; sort of like how parents feel when a kid, whom they've
given every privilege, every opportunity, and every advantage imaginable,
lets it all go overboard and somehow ends up incorrigible and a total failure
instead.
• Gen 6:7 . . And the Lord said: I will blot out man, whom I created, from
upon the face of the earth, from man to cattle to creeping thing, to the fowl
of the heavens, for I regret that I made them.
_
