4. Inevitable Consequences (Genesis 6: 7 – 11: 23)

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Lesson #4Inevitable Consequences

(6: 711: 23)


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1. Sin is subtle

2. Sin distorts our judgment

3. Sin escalates4. Sin cascades down through generations


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Gustov Dor. Satan, illustrations for John Miltons Paradise Lost, 1866.


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When the Lord saw how great thewickedness of human beings was onearth, and how every desire thattheir heart conceived was alwaysnothing but evil, the Lord regrettedmaking human beings on the earth

and his heart was grieved.(Genesis 6: 5-6)


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1. In his magnificent translation ofThe Five Books of Moses(New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2004), RobertAlter observes that the only obvious meaning of the

Hebrew term [Nephilim] is fallen onesperhaps thosewho have come down from the realm of the gods . . . .

2. This Hebrewor perhaps broader Near Easternidearesonates off similar Egyptian, Greek and Roman thinkingthat the gods mate with mortal men and women,producing the great mythic heroes of old, such as

Achilles, in the Iliadand Aeneas in theAeneid.

3. In Scripture the fallen ones mayrefer to the rebelliousangels who fell with Satan.


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Michaelangelo. The Deluge, Sistine Chapel ceiling. Vatican, c. 1512.


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1. God/gods determine to bring a flood

2. Hero told to make a boat

3. Make a boat with a roof and cover the boat with tar and pitch

4. Put the seed of all creatures in the boat5. Hero & family enter the boat

6. Rain falls (40 days/nights; 7 days/6 nights)

7. All creatures outside die

8. Hero opens a window

9. Waters recede and boat comes to rest on a mountain (Aarat/Nimus)

10. After 7 days the hero sends out a dove11. Hero offers sacrifice to God/gods

12. God/gods bless hero and his family


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Photography by Ana Maria Vargas.


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Transitional Introduction (6: 9-10)

A Corruption in creation (6: 11-12)

B 1stdivine speech: Resolve to Destroy (6: 13-22)

C 2nddivine speech: Enter the Ark (7:1-10)

D Beginning of flood (7: 11-16)

E Rising flood (7:17-24)

E Receding flood (8: 1-5)

D Drying the earth (8: 6-14)

C 3rddivine speech: Leave the Ark (8: 15-19)

B 4thdivine speech: Resolve to Preserve (8: 20-22)

A Covenant with creation (9:1-17)Transitional conclusion (9: 18-19)


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Giovanni Bellini. Drunkenness of Noah, oil an canvas, c. 1515.

Muse des Beaux-Arts, Besanon.


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Left to our own devices, humanity is

incapable of resolving the issue of sin.


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1. Why did the Lord look with favor on Able and hisoffering, but not on Cain and his offering?

2. In 4: 17 we read: Cain had intercourse with his wife,and she conceived . . .. Where did Cains wife comefrom?

3. What is the function of the five genealogies in Genesis1-11? Why are they important?

4. Why does God bring a flood to destroy all life onearth?

5. People built the Tower of Babel so they would makea name for themselves. What two other examples inGenesis 1-11 spring from the same motive?


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