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  Explain, in your own words, what the story of the flood in Genesis reveals about God’s nature.

  Posted by info on 02/26/2021 at 13:08

  Anna Byrd replied 4 weeks, 1 day ago 37 Members · 36 Replies

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  Anna Byrd

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  01/21/2025 at 10:51

  That even though he created humanity, since they were so wicked, he still destroyed them with a flood. Even now we have the rainbow as a reminder of God’s promise to never flood the Earth again, even if it gets as wicked as it was in Genesis. But that doesn’t mean that He won’t use something else to destroy the Earth.

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  Charlotte Ferguson

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  09/09/2023 at 23:21

  God is a God of love and redemption. His intention was to save humanity from the evil and destructive violence that was prevalent throughout. Instead of allowing the violence to go on in the world, He reset for a new humanity to come from the one righteous man he could find.

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  Oscar Chan

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  08/26/2023 at 05:54

  God saved the righteous from the evil. He protected Noah and preserved his family.

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  JAMES JONES

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  07/24/2023 at 18:07

  In God’s love He created humanity and put us over all of creation to tend for it. But since the fall of man to sin, man lost his way. Greed, violence, and all sorts of corruption entered into him. He placed himself and other things above God and did as he pleased. We became a stench in the nostrils of God and God decided to destroy the humanity bent on evil, but in His mercy God sought out a man (Noah) and his family who He saw as righteous to save from destruction. Through Noah, God gave humanity a second chance to be the people He created us to be. But God knew our hearts were inclined toward evil. He placed a rainbow in the sky as His pledge to never again destroy all humanity and all creation through a flood. But instead began His Plan to prepare a way of salvation to save us from eternal damnation. God does punish evil, but God also provides us a way of redemption.

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  Leong

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  07/23/2023 at 06:06

  Although the flood suggests universal destruction, the motive of God was actually preservation. Humanity had become so wicked that they were always thinking of doing evil all the time (Gen 6:5). The earth was full of violence (Gen 6:11,13). Already Gen 4 records how Cain and Lamech had been murderous and vengeful men. At the rate that it was going, one can imagine that men would continue to destroy themselves (and perhaps all life) if God had not intervened. At least the innocent would have been wiped out first by the wicked, and what a wicked world it would have become.
  From this perspective, God’s flood was not only an execution of justice, but a plan of love to preserve an innocent man Noah and his descendants.
  #Genocide

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