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.
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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
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