6:6
“And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth.” This is using anthropological language. God is absolutely sovereign, omnipotent and all the other omni’s. However, this does not mean that God does not care. What we do with our lives matters and it matters to God. Man’s sin against God matters to Him. Now this is not a mere personal affront, it is the effect that our sin has on ourselves, on those around us, indeed on the whole of creation. God was “grieved to His heart”.
6:7,8
So God resolves to take action. Verse 7 states things in the starkest terms, the whole of creation is going to be blotted out, this would encompass mankind and all the animals. But we must not take this verse in isolation, for the very next verse adds a vital element to the picture. We must look at each verse in the immediate context, the context of the book within which it is found, and the context of the whole Bible. Here in verse 8 we find that there is an exception. “Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord”. We should note that in the midst of judgement God plans salvation. The judgement is absolutely real, and so is the salvation.
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