Archive for month: April, 2021

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Genesis 6:11-22.  Let’s go!

Genesis 6:11-13 (NIV)
11  Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence.
12  God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways.
13  So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.

On verses 11-13:  In Genesis 1, God saw that the earth He made was good.  Here, however, in verses 11-13 God saw how corrupt the earth had become due to the sins people would commit and the violence they would inflict on one another.  We’re only six chapters into the Bible, but we are now half way through the overarching story of the Bible:  “God made us.  We blew it.  Jesus came.  We need Him.”  This is the “we blew it” part.

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Genesis 6:1-10.  Let’s go!

Genesis 6:1-7 (NIV)
1  When men began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them,
2  the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose.
3  Then the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”
4  The Nephilim were on the earth in those days–and also afterward–when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
5  The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.
6  The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain.
7  So the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth–men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air–for I am grieved that I have made them.”

On verses 1-7:  At first glance verses 1-7 read to me like a fairy tale, speaking of a whimsical, romantic time when the “sons of God” mated with the “daughters of men” (v1-2), a time when the Nephilim, known to be a race of giants, lived.  According to the Bible Knowledge Commentary, what could actually be happening here in verses 1-7 is that the author of Genesis (many scholars say it was Moses) was addressing the widely held beliefs of pagan nations which taught that you could attain god-like immortality by engaging in great immorality  Along this line of teaching,

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Genesis 5:1-32.  Let’s go!

Genesis 5:1-20 (NIV)
1  This is the written account of Adam’s line. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
2  He created them male and female and blessed them. And when they were created, he called them “man.”
3  When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
4  After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.
5  Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
6  When Seth had lived 105 years, he became the father of Enosh….

On verses 1-20:  How could human beings live such a long time, in some cases almost 1,000 years (see for example Methuselah in verse 27)?  One theory is that God’s original plan was that God made man to live forever, but as sin came into the world, gradually lifespans would get shorter over time.  As the Quest Study Bible explains, “The Creator made men and women to be immortal.  Nevertheless, death – the result of sin – progressively decreased human longevity until 70 or 80 years became a normal life span (see Psalm 90:10).” (Quest Study Bible: New International Version. Zondervan, 2003).  Another explanation is that life spans remained this long during the first several generations of human beings as shown in Genesis 5, but in Genesis 6 we see that God intentionally limits the lifespan of human beings to 120 years (see Genesis 6:3).