The Book of Beginnings

Studies in Genesis

Lesson 30 : Genesis 5:1–6:8 – The Book of the History of Adam – part 4

TWELFTH PARAGRAPH: PUNISHMENT IS DECREED ON THE GENERATIONS OF NOAH BUT GRACE IS SHOWN TO NOAH – THE PAGAN MYTHS – A THEOLOGICAL TERM IN LATER JUDAISM – THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN – IRRECONCILABLE WITH THE ANGEL THEORY – LAMECH’S PROPHECY REGARDING NOAH FULFILLED? – THE LORD ‘LAMENTS’ BECAUSE OF WHAT MAN HAD BECOME, NOT BECAUSE HE HAD CREATED MAN NOR BECAUSE OF THE COMING JUDGMENT – THEOLOGICAL QUESTION: ‘DOES GOD REPENT?’ – THE IMPASSIBILITY OF GOD – NOTE THE ‘GRACE’ (‘FAVOR’) OF GOD – THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF NOAH