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With the flood over, it would seem that God is looking back over the circumstances that led to the flood, and is given Noah and his family a slightly different set of rules by which to live.

Before the fall, God gave man plants to eat (Gen 1:29, 2:16), and animals to subdue (Gen 1:28, 2:18).  After the fall, God cursed the ground (Gen. 3:17), making it hard to till.  Rather than farm the ground, Abel decided to raise animals for food (Gen 4:2,4); Cain tilled the ground (Gen 4:2,3).  Now, how do we know Abel’s flocks were for food? Because he knew to give God the fat most flavorful part… the fat portions. 

Cain, it would seem, was the more obedient …

When I wrote Genesis 7:6-17 - Where was the ark? (Part 3) - Only Noah’s Family Knew, I went through every verse in the Bible about Noah to see if the people killed knew of anything about the ark and coming flood.  What I found was quite the contrary.  Here are just a few key verses, recalled in a sequence that I think tells the story…
Hebrews 11:7 - By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that …

Yesterday, I took some poetic license with Noah’s story, in Genesis 8-9 - Noah feels overwhelmed.  Funny thing.  I mentioned “Noah’s tent” but forgot to add a stage where he pitches one.  Well, clearly he pitched a tent at some point. When I make omissions like this, I realize how human the Biblical authors were.  It is the same kind of omissions, and people point to the lack of authenticity, implying the author didn’t think it through.  What it tells me is that the author was human.  And in the case of the flood, I can that Noah was human, too.

I love the fact that Noah could remain so obedient throughout …

As I have written in Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth, a Christophany is the appearance of Jesus on Earth, predating his life in the Gospels.  I document a few, and go into great detail about my favorite Christophany in Jesus on Mount Sinai, where Jesus was meeting was Moses in his tent, and Moses begged to see Him in His glory.  So, Jesus showed him His glory from behind on Mount Sinai… and then showed Himself to Moses from the front in the Gospels, on the Mount of Transfiguration.  It is that example that firmly establishes that inter-workings between Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel is intertwined with His work in the Old Testament.  Another example, is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, …

In Jesus, the Father’s Proxy on Earth and Jesus on Mount Sinai, I establish the idea of Christophanies in the Old Testament, essentially making the case that where we see God on earth, it is Jesus.  In Genesis 6 - Who Regretted Creating Mankind?, I use the same principals to suggest there was interplay between Jesus and God the Father in the Flood narrative.  It resolves a key problem skeptics point out, where God does not appear omniscient when He speaks (emphasis mine)…
 5 The LORD saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that …

 1 The LORD then said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and your whole family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
Apparently God is not referring to Noah’s extended family or relatives.  He is only referring to Noah’s wife, sons, and their wives.  It would seem he had no other children, and no grandchildren yet.
2 Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate, 3 and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
As I wrote in …

A primary obstacle to discussing The Flood with a Young Earther has to do with how you read the scripture.  Many will say that you have to read it literally.  Personally, I find that quite appealing.  However, as you read through The Flood’s account, you immediately find yourself having to relax that rule when God says he is going to wipe out “all” of mankind… but is going to save Noah and his family.  Clearly, Noah is a man, yet God clearly separated him from the “all” that he was referring to.  Apparently, even when the word “all” is used by God, God still reserves the right to list exceptions. 

So, backing off the strictly literal method of interpretation, one can still insist that …

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.
As I wrote in Genesis 6:9-12 - Destroying All Mankind… Adam’s descendants that is… except the righteous ones, all refers to all the evil descendants of Adam.  The reason for using “all”, when God clearly did not mean Noah and his family, is that God separated them from those to whom God referred.  The statement must have been a shock to Noah, having been a …

 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.” 
Genesis 6:5-7 is an interesting passage.  Christians use it to teach how much God hates sin; skeptics use it to teach how …

 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. ”
Verses 1 and 2 appear to mirror both Day 6 and the creation of Adam.  I say this because because the word used for “man” is the same as the name for Adam.  The King James Version says this even clearer:
 1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;  2Male and female created he them; …