Was there any cultural value in Genesis 6?

Answer 1

Here it shows how man fell from the grace of god, and god feels sorry that he ever built man, so later he decided to destroy the world wit the flood.

Answer:

Considering the end time in which we live, the world should be taking the lesson from Genesis 6. Jesus tells us that the world would return in the last days to the way it was in Genesis 6 - Noah's day:

"...God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." (Gen.6:5)

"But as the days of Noe were before the flood... so shall the coming of the Son of Man be." (Matt.24:37-39)

The "cultural values" of Genesis 6, ideally, should be as a warning to our end time generation to "repent" before God... and to change its ways before the "second flood" comes and "takes them all away."

Peter tells us that Jesus Christ's return is compared to Noah's flood... only the next one will be a "flood of fire"... not water:

"... they deliberately forget that long ago by God's WORD the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water by water."

[They deliberately teach, instead, the world evolving without a Creator and coming into existence by accident].

"By these waters also the world of that time [the time of Gen.6] was deluged and destroyed. By the same WORD the present heaven and earth are reserved for FIRE, being kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men..."

"...The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (II Peter 3:5-9 NIV)

This world's culture should be heeding the lesson taught by Genesis 6's corrupt cultural values -- and be humbly repenting and turning toward its Creator, instead of imagining and wallowing in the continuous, careless evil devised in its collective heart.

The culture of Noah's day failed to do that [even with Noah's continuous unheeded preaching for the 120 years it took to build the ark - Gen.6:3 & II Peter 2:5].

Another flood is coming. It's a flood of fire, and Salvation is God's ark.

There's still time for our comparable culture ["...the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence." - verse 11 NIV] to change its values. If only it would.

"There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." (Prov.14:12 NIV)

Noah's heartless Genesis 6 world saw value in its continually wicked culture. It "seemed right" to them... just as our comparable world's wicked culture seems right to it.

But God didn't [and doesn't] see it that way. And what He saw [and sees]... and what He did -- in the end -- is what mattered.