The first part of Genesis 6 is rough. Here God reveals that he was grieved to the very core of His being that He had created mankind. Mankind had become so utterly corrupt that God wished He had never created them. Given that He created us in His own image, that is a heavy sentiment to behold. God, You wished You had never made us?
But verse 8 reveals the third instance of God’s redemptive nature (the first was when He did not destroy Adam and Eve and the second was when He promised to protect Cain, despite his evil nature). There is hope in the form of Noah, because ?Noah found favor in the eyes of the LORD.?
God is a pure and holy God, and evil cannot exist in His presence. But He loves us, whom He created in His own image, so much that He provides redemption for us.
