[FONT=Verdana]- [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 6:5 . . And the Lord saw that the evil of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of his heart was only evil all the time.[/B] Man's descent into depravity didn't catch his creator by surprise. After all; not only can God see the future but He can also manipulate it; so He was well aware even before Gen 1:1 that the people He was about to create were destined from day-one for a global deluge. Also, when ...
[FONT=Verdana]- [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 6:3a . . And Yhvh said: My Spirit shall not strive with man forever[/B] Some translations have "abide" instead of strive. But the Hebrew word is [I]diyn[/I] (deen) which means: to rule; by implication: to judge (as umpire); also to strive (as at law). It can also mean to plead the cause of; or to contend in argument. So. How did "My Spirit" accomplish this striving with man? In person Himself? ...
[FONT=Verdana]- [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 6:1-2 . . Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were good; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.[/B] The Hebrew word for "good" in that passage is [I]towb[/I] (tobe) which is the very same word that Genesis utilizes to evaluate God's handiwork in creation; e.g. Light (Gen 1:4) Land and ...
[FONT=Verdana]- [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 5:28-29 . .When Lamech had lived 182 years, he begot a son. And he named him Noah, saying: This one will provide us relief from our work and from the toil of our hands, out of the very soil which the Lord placed under a curse.[/B] The word for "Noah" is from [I]nuwach[/I] (noo'-akh) and means[B]:[/B] rest or quiet. But not the kind of quiet one might find in a sound-proof room. More like the peace and quiet a person ...
[FONT=Verdana]- [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 5:10 . . After the birth of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and begot sons and daughters.[/B] You know, some of these guys really didn't accomplish very much. All they seemed to do was reproduce. But the important thing is[B]:[/B] they made a line to Messiah and, as is the duty of patriarchs, preserved whatever sacred teachings were handed down from their fathers. [B][COLOR=#ff0000]†.[/COLOR] Gen 5:11 . . All the days ...
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