Originally Posted by
FunFromOz
From Genesis 6-7: The Lord said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them." 8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. ...
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
13 Then God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before Me; for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and behold, I am about to destroy them with the earth. 14 Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch. 15 This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. 16 You shall make a window for the ark, and finish it to a cubit from the top; and set the door of the ark in the side of it; you shall make it with lower, second, and third decks. 17 Behold, I, even I am bringing the flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. 18 But I will establish My covenant with you; and you shall enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you. 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. 20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive. 21 As for you, take for yourself some of all food which is edible, and gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them." 22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.
Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time. 2 You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a male and his female; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female; 3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 For after seven more days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made." 5 Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.
Here's my understanding from reading Gen 6-7.
[*]God decided to wipe out man but God favoured Noah
@@@The reason why was his righteousness. 7:1 which you quoted just above states that plainly.
[*]God said to Noah. He didn't ask!! Later we read that He "commanded"
@@@God commands people to repent, he doesn't ask. Then they choose to either obey or disobey. This has always worked the same way.
[*]God's directions to Noah were that "you shall" (not "would you like to ..." or "what about if you ...") [*]After giving His directions He told Noah that He was making a covenant with him. Again He never asked, he told.[*]God declares up front who's going in the ark, Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives. Shem was around 25 at the time that Noah was told to build the ark and 100 at the time of the flood. Were there grandkids? There was lots of time. If there were they weren't included in the deal as they never came.
@@@Their kids are mentioned here :
Gen 10:1 Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
If they had had sons before the flood then they would have been mentioned in the genealogy.
[*]Twice we read Moses did according to all that God commanded.
There's nothing I read there Ezekiel about God giving Noah a choice. God decided to save Noah and his family and that is what He did. He didn't put out a general call asking who wanted to be saved; who wanted to enter into a covenant with Him. He didn't have a "Plan B" with someone else building an ark as well in case Noah decided to give up or fell off the top and hurt himself. What I read is God commanded and Noah obeyed, cf Luke 7 and the centurion who says "For I also am a man placed under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it."
@@@Noah chose to obey, those he preached the message to chose to disobey :
2 Peter 2:5 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;
You just presented an excellent example of a Calvinist distortion.