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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Moment of Meditation: Corrupt in God's Sight (Genesis 6:11)
Description: Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence. (Genesis 6:11)
What does it mean to be corrupt? Literally, to be on the way to ruin. Because of sin, the entire earth had become like a banana with a greasy, black peel. No one wants that.
God promises the Flood because of this horrible corruption. God wants all people to be saved (1 Timothy 2:4), but sin cannot stand in His presence. Even now, God promises that those who persist in their sinful corruption “will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away fr...