Many have wondered why this has happened. A lot of people have probably never heard of this one, and most who know of it are either happy that so many drowned in the Flood or they mock God for it, seeing that there isn’t much clarity between the English and Hebrew here — lost in translation? 🤣 — Anyway, this controversial story is found in pages 3-5 of my NKJV Bible, pages 4-6 of my NASB Bible, and pages 7-11 of both my VOICE and Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copies. But before I get into this, I want to say that God did not kill anybody with the water. I know many who read this will get very angry and probably hostile to my comments on this, saying, “This was God’s judgment! Of course He killed them!” Well, I don’t think so, so if you don’t like this opinion, too bad.
While everyone but Noah and, what I imagine, his family rejected Jesus (for He was preaching through Noah — I did a study on 1 Peter 3:18-20 and found this answer), it says in 2 Samuel 14:14 that God does not take away life. In my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy of footnote e in chapter 4 (page 5 there), the commentator said God cursed the ground and that Cain could not argue with Him because He loved Abel more — that’s heresy. So is the idea that God takes pleasure in retribution, and those ideas are not right. The commentator’s name? A.W. Pink. He was (and still is) a well-known Calvinist who had died long ago in his sins (I don’t know when it was), and people either love or hate him. I don’t believe it’s right to hate anyone, by the way. Yet I know the commentator on footnote e deserved God’s wrath defeating him in the end. Like I said in chapter three, he’s in Hell paying for his sins, and so have all who preached and believed the same. It doesn’t discriminate between generations, but I’m glad to see this number drop per capita. From what I’ve heard and read in the past, my generation (Millenials) is actually pretty high on authenticity, and I think that’s a good thing. But now’s not the time to comment any further on that…
I’ve also read on a link that chapter 6 has Noah with perfection, but he had perfect DNA, not a perfect life. That’s impossible. The Nephilim (giants of the earth; see verse 4) actually came from women whom demons had seduced, too. God also prophesied that man would live a maximum of 120 years (verse 3)… but it would be a long time before that would happen. I think God was unwilling to limit life too much, but I also believe that the water from the Earth’s atmosphere that it had at the time was part of the Flood that would transpire in chapters 7 and 8. When it landed on the Earth, the UV rays would greatly shorten life, which I find unfortunate, and so would many diseases multiplying across the earth over many centuries up to this point. Thank God for better healthcare than what they had three thousand years ago or even just the previous century! Also, I forgot to mention that the gifts of the Spirit I mentioned last night — 1 Corinthians 12 is the basis of my beliefs concerning these.
The Hebrew is very awkward in translating Genesis 6:6 into English, too, I’m sorry… I believe that a more accurate translation (without deviating from the original meaning) would be, “And God was sorry of what the human race had become, and it pained His heart just thinking about what they were doing” (going off of verse 5) — even though He loved all creation from before the beginning. You know how I said that there are believers in every generation? Well, Isaiah 51:8 is the basis for my beliefs concerning this, too. Also, contrary to popular belief, there were actually nine of each species that Noah took in his ark (Genesis 7:2-3). Now that’s what I call a zoo!
Chapter 9 has a beautiful promise of no worldwide floods after that, with a rainbow God sets in the sky to remember His covenant with the whole human race (verses 11-17), and I’m very glad for it. Many large floods have happened across the world since then, but at least there’s never been a promise broken by God. But I think the floods come from demonic activity. Noah also makes a vineyard and gets drunk from it later on there, but Ham (one of his sons) sees it, his brothers cover his naked body (they didn’t look at him), and very weirdly, Noah pronounces a curse on Canaan, the land which would later be Israel (9:24-27) — he didn’t curse any actual people, I don’t think, but he prophesied that the land would be a slave of slaves to their brothers/sisters nearby. I don’t know what to think on Noah’s strange words — he had sobered up, it says there. I don’t know why he got hammered on his own grapes, where the wine comes from. And yes, I do mean grapes that you eat from the vine, like the green seedless ones you find in the store.
I’ll make more notes on these four chapters over the next few weeks… or months. I don’t know when I’ll get to chapter 10, but I’ll concentrate on these four chapters, so bear with me. Please? 🔜
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