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Why did God save 8 people?

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Gen_6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Gen_6:7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

But God had Noah build a ark and saved Noah and his family? If God was sorry He made man, why would He save some?

Gen_8:21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

God admits that it didn't really do any good since man is so evil, and knows once the population builds back up, it will get just as bad as it was, but vows to never do it again.

So, why the first time?
 
So, why the first time?
"The end of all flesh is come before me"

The Only non-corrupt left were Noah and his family .

Genesis 6
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
 
Hi Whatever
But God had Noah build a ark and saved Noah and his family? If God was sorry He made man, why would He save some?
Because God made a promise to Adam. For the record, there was also a time that God seriously considered destroying all of Israel, but Moses argued for Him to relent.. God foretold to Adam that there would be one who would come to defeat sin. That hadn't happened when God destroyed the living creatures in the flood. So He had to save some of mankind to get to the promise.

God admits that it didn't really do any good since man is so evil, and knows once the population builds back up, it will get just as bad as it was, but vows to never do it again.

So, why the first time?
All we can do is to take God at His word. He said that He did it the first time because His heart was grieved that He had made man. Frankly, it's possible that He did it because He was grieved, but also because it allowed Him the opportunity to prove to us that there will be a judgment. Just as Jesus later uses the account of the flood to describe what it will be like at the end of this realm of existence.

God bless,
Ted
 
Because God made a promise to Adam.
The only promise God made to Adam was:
Gen 3:17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life.
Gen 3:18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field.
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."

Your probably thinking of what God said to the serpent.
Gen 3:14 So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel."
 
All we can do is to take God at His word.
Okay, but God said:
Gen 6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Gen 6:7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."


He said I will destroy man from the face of the Earth. He didn't do that.
 
Where does it say Noah and his family were non-corrupt. It says Noah found GRACE in the eyes of the Lord.
In the next verse after Grace . "Perfect in his generations " .

9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
 
9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
But is that saying that Noah was sinless?
Jas 2:10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.

I will admit that Noah was probably a very obedient, disciplined, duteous person. Probably 1,000 better than me.

But if Noah was perfect (being entirely without fault or defect) then so was Job, David and others. If so, why did Jesus have to come and die if this is possible?
 
His genes were not corrupt , Noah was perfect in his generations .
His genes were not corrupt? I believe Adam has perfect genes, but after the fall, genetic mistakes started happening.

Genesis 5 gives 10 generations from Adam to Noah

This is not merely Dr Sanford’s opinion—the wider genetics research community, i.e. whether creationist or evolutionist, now accepts that point mutations in human reproductive cells are in the order of a hundred or so per individual each generation.

It might not have happened that fast at first, but Noah's genes were not perfect.
 
Well, I don't have infallible interpretation of this, so why was this said?
Infallible interpretation ? I do have an interpretation :biggrin2 , the corruption of all flesh was caused by the son's of God , fallen angels .
Gen. 6
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Whatever , you have heard this before haven't you ?
 
In the next verse after Grace . "Perfect in his generations " .

9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Very true, it shows what God seeks and clues us what will be at the end for the wicked and the righteous...

Matthew 24:37
But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

1 Peter 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
 
Okay, but God said:
Gen 6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Gen 6:7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."


He said I will destroy man from the face of the Earth. He didn't do that.
Hey All,
If we want to get technical, Noah was no longer on "the face of the earth." He was floating above the face. Two quick points:

Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Some earlier posts had Gen. 6:8, so Noah found grace. But sometimes this next part is overlooked.

Genesis 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

Noah was obedient to the will of God.
God: "Noah, I want you to build this big boat/barge."
Noah: "OK."
Not, "You got to be kidding," or "have you flipped your lid?"
Noah just said OK.

Keep walking everybody.
May God bless,
Taz
 
Gen_6:6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Gen_6:7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

But God had Noah build a ark and saved Noah and his family? If God was sorry He made man, why would He save some?

Gen_8:21 And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

God admits that it didn't really do any good since man is so evil, and knows once the population builds back up, it will get just as bad as it was, but vows to never do it again.

So, why the first time?
Context answers your questions:

5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God. (Gen. 6:9 NKJ) (Gen. 6:5-9 NKJ)

Verse 5 refers back to the marriages between angels and men, an abomination of the image of God in man. Satan's angels (Nephilim) conspired with men to use their beautiful daughters to seduce the "sons of God" "Watchers" who were sent by God to counter the Serpent's War on the woman's seed (Gen. 3:15).

A global conspiracy by evil men working with Satan against God's plan for redemption, the incarnation of Christ in human flesh (not angel-human flesh).

It probably was man's idea humans can become immortal if "unfallen angels" sired human children. Satan and his angels deceived the earth that was correct. It was the fall of His angels the "sons of God" that added to His grief.

That level of betrayal hurt God emotionally, now He had to destroy all contaminated by angelic DNA and also cleanse the earth of the herbivores who were changed into carnivores by DNA experiments humans and fallen angels conducted, seeking immortality. All the earth was corrupted from His original creation.

Its likely ancient Greek-Sumerian myth of human/animal monsters can be traced back to fallen angels and these evil human scientists, who likely combined human and animal DNA hoping to create a species that is "immortal", that could "work around" God's banning humans from eating from the tree of life and becoming immortal.

Noah was "perfect" in his lineage (generations), fully human, no angelic DNA corrupting the image of God in man, and he walked with God according to God's righteousness.

God's plan to save humanity via the woman's seed could continue, through Noah and his Descendents. So it was always God's plan to save humanity through Christ. But God wants us to know He has feelings, He loves and hates, and can be disappointed. He is our heavenly Father, not a machine.

The fossil record is the burial ground of the monsters angels and men created by manipulating DNA. So our technology is only now catching up to what it was in the Days of Noah. Formerly peaceful herbivores, fallen angels and men created these monsters:


 
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Of course that all is only true if your interpretation of "sons of god" means angels.

Jesus says angels do not marry. God made humans with sexual organs for reproduction. Angels do not reproduce, so why would they have sexual organs.
 
Of course that all is only true if your interpretation of "sons of god" means angels.
In the OT "Sons of God " meaning is angels .
Jesus says angels do not marry.
Angels in heaven do not marry .


Matthew 22:30 For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.


God made humans with sexual organs for reproduction. Angels do not reproduce, so why would they have sexual organs.
How the reproduction happened we are not told but we are told it did happen .

Genesis 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Matthew 24
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
 
Of course that all is only true if your interpretation of "sons of god" means angels.

Jesus says angels do not marry. God made humans with sexual organs for reproduction. Angels do not reproduce, so why would they have sexual organs.
That is correct, but Jesus' words do not rule out "disobedient angels on earth" can marry. He clearly was speaking about obedient angels in heaven, not Satan and his demons.

As for the interpretation "sons of God are angels", that rests upon a sound principle of interpretation: "Scripture interprets scripture."

"Sons of God" elsewhere in the OT, are angels:


NKJ Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them.
NKJ Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
NKJ Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The apostles refer to this event during the days of Noah as about angels seeking "strange flesh" as they did in Sodom (with angels), after leaving their proper habitation:

4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; (2 Pet. 2:4-5 NKJ)

6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 1:6-7 NKJ)

Throughout the earth Megalithic sites displaying technological ability far beyond what we possess today, exist both above and beneath water. Sometimes in coal seams they are finding things. Aliens wouldn't build with stone, humans did. Often these are built to keep out the monsters.

God created peaceful plant eating animals, somehow they became fierce carnivorous monsters that were buried alive during the flood, and became fossils. Its a snapshot of life at the time of the flood, not as God first created them.

It then is clear why God flooded the entire earth, everything He made man and beast was corrupted and He wanted to start over:

7 So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
10 And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
13 And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (Gen. 6:7-13 NKJ)

Beasts, creeping things and birds of the air can't corrupt themselves, it was done to them through DNA experiments.

Satan's "seed" is the antichrist, just as the Woman's seed is the Christ. He replicate what the angels did, his offspring will be a Nephilim:

14 So the LORD God said to the serpent...
15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel." (Gen. 3:14-15 NKJ)

People incorrectly think all Nephilim were giants physically. That's not true for all of them, they "giant" in other ways, in abilities.

Moses alludes to well known pagan myth when he says:

Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. (Gen. 6:4 NKJ)


In Greek myth some of the "children of the gods" displayed special qualities or abilities without being colossal in size. These individuals were often demigods or heroes, possessing a combination of divine and mortal traits. Examples include:

  1. Heracles (Hercules): Heracles was the son of Zeus and the mortal Alcmena. He was known for his immense strength and undertook a series of heroic tasks known as the Twelve Labors.
  2. Perseus: Another demigod, Perseus, was the son of Zeus and Danaë. He is famous for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
  3. Achilles: The hero of the Trojan War, Achilles, was the son of the sea nymph Thetis and the mortal Peleus. He was known for his exceptional combat skills and invulnerability, except for his heel.
The spies with Caleb described the giant children of Anak as Nephilim, but that was an exaggeration. All the Nephilim died in the flood (Gen. 7:21-23). Evidently some of the wives of Noah's sons may have had angelic DNA that God eventually wiped out as the Giants were purposely hunted down and killed.

The angel told Daniel prophecy would be unsealed in the time of the end. Its clear to me EVENTs unseals them, obscure words become perfectly clear as the prophesied event begins to happen:

8 Although I heard, I did not understand. Then I said, "My lord, what shall be the end of these things?"
9 And he said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. (Dan. 12:8-9 NKJ)

The UFO phenomena today, regardless whether you think it imaginary or real, is clearly a work of Satan that he will use in the end time to deceive the entire earth. In the context of UFOs and DNA experiments by these demons disguised as "ET aliens", we see nothing is really new under the sun.

Christ said, it will be "like the Days of Noah", which implies events similar to what happed in Noah's day, will be present also but considered "business as usual."

26 "And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
27 "They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. (Lk. 17:26-27 NKJ)
 
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