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Explain, in your own words, what the story of the flood in Genesis reveals about God’s nature.
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God is love. He has been tolerating their behavior, but He saw that every inclination of their hearts were evil and that grieves him. Therefore he has to judge that generation but saved Noah and his family, because Noah is a righteous man. God is just and he will not punish the righteous with the wicked. God instructed Noah to build an Ark and brings a pair of every animals into the Ark together with his family to preserve the godly. Though on the surface God may look cruel to kill the whole earth of people with flood but we must remember that these people were wicked and they are also destroying themselves with their wickedness. God have to protect Noah from these people because Noah is righteous in God’s sight.
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The story of the flood in Genesis reveals that God is a God of mercy by preserving the most righteous man and his family so as to continue the human race from the human race who’s heart was full of violence and murder that was leading to distruction.
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The world had become so evil, that instead of letting the human race self-destruct, He chose a Godly man and his family to save while He cleansed the earth of the evil that was in it. Basically, He started over with humans through Noah and his family. While the flood didn’t completely erase evil, because Satan still existed, He was able to give humans another chance to live the way He had intended from the beginning.
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God reveals His love and mercy.
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God through the flood shows his judgment and mercy to humanity. God does not like sin and the sin of humanity was great and God had to correct humanity.