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NASB | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 6:9 ¶ These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God. |
Bible Question: thanks! i concur that his thoughts are not our thoughts, etc; what i was asking for was an educated (as compared to MY scripture educaiton or lack thereof) opinion as to the reasons for these occurances |
Bible Answer: Dear hic: Upon reflection I fear that my response to you was too abrupt and perhaps even harsh, for I believe that your motives were honest and pure and stemmed from a genunine desire to seek an answer to a question about which you are troubled. ...... In searching my thoughts for something to say to you about your question -- I cannot answer it, for frankly I don't know the answer to it -- I remembered something from a sermon delivered by my pastor some time ago. He spoke of keeping a mental list of questions -- to which he added from time to time -- questions which, when he goes to glory, he would like to ask God. But he readily admitted that once he met Jesus face to face in all His glory, all his questions likely would melt like snowflakes falling on a hot stove. ...... I believe that God has chosen to reveal as much of Himself to man as man needs to know and can absorb. God has perfect knowledge and understanding of all things. Man knows only in part. His vision is occluded; he sees through his glass darkly. (Please see 1 Cor. 13:12). ...... We who are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb walk by faith, not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). ..... Job 35 points out that man is not God, and in Job 38 God exposes Job's ignorance. I like to read these passages from Job from time to time, especially at those times when I begin to suspect that I've waxed wise. Reading these lines from Job serves to remind me, when I get to feeling too self-assured and too full of myself, to "take heed lest I fall" (see 1 Cor. 10:12). ..... Please feel free to continue to ask questions, and by no means feel thwarted in your quest for God's truth as revealed in His blessed word. ...... "Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen" (Jude 24,25). --Hank |