Genesis 5:5-8: Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
​ 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

The first chapters of Genesis shed some light on some basic questions--our origins and purpose, why we fight, why we die, and how we live meaningfully. We find glory, beauty, love, deception, shame, blame, punishment, sibling rivalry, murder, expulsion--all in the first four chapters of Genesis. Before long, God grieved the sin among his people and re-created the world through a flood, a baptism, if you will. As author Madeleine L'Engle suggested, "The flood was God's tears. But God found one righteous family, Noah's, through which he rebirthed a freshly storied world.  --Kelly Monroe Kullberg & David Kullberg