iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 4
The Flood
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 4: "The Flood" --- THE CORRUPTION Ten generations had passed since Adam walked in the garden. Ten generations of births and deaths, of families spreading across the land, of humanity multiplying as God had commanded. But something had gone terribly wrong. The world was filling—but not with righteousness. "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Only evil. Continually. Let those words sink in. Not occasionally evil, not mostly evil, but only evil—every thought, every intention, every moment corrupted by the rot that had entered the world through Eden's gate and spread through Cain's bloodline and metastasized through generation after generation until it consumed everything. The text tells us that the earth was "filled with violence." This wasn't isolated crime or occasional conflict. This was systemic brutality. The strong preying on the weak. The powerful crushing the vulnerable. Murder and rape and theft and cruelty woven into the very fabric of human society. Imagine a world without conscience. Without law. Without any force to restrain the worst impulses of the human heart. That was the world before the flood—a world where might made right and mercy was weakness and love was a vulnerability to be exploited. This...