Genesis 6:13–22
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About this episode
We come now to one of the most foundational and cataclysmic events in human history. The modern mind, soaked as it is in a watery solution of uniformitarianism and skepticism, has a hard time with the Flood. Our age prefers its judgments to be metaphorical and its sins to be therapeutic. And the judgment of the Flood was not a metaphor. Before we can understand the grace of the ark, we must first grapple with the reason for the de-creation. This was a world where the entire orchard was rotten to the root. The great sin that precipitated this judgment was a profound rebellion against the created order. As we saw in the preceding verses, it was a time of perverse unions, a monstrous attempt to crash the gates of heaven and seize immortality by corrupting the very image of God in man.