Thoughts on Genesis 6
I recently posted my perspective on the difference between sons of God and men. Chapter 6 goes into it a bit deeper in that those that wanted to follow God did not pass down that trait because they were unequally yoked. 2 Corinthians 6:14 says, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”. So through these unions, they produced sons, but they were sons of men, not sons of God.
When Noah came on the scene, he stood out to God. The Bible says Noah was perfect in his generations (plural), meaning that all of his fathers back to Adam served God. None of them were merely men or sons of men. His lineage was perfect. That’s what set him apart from everyone else in the world… that, and he was just and he walked with God.
If Noah was the last male on earth that had perfect generations, I can easily imagine that there were absolutely no women that could say the same. Perhaps this is why Mrs. Noah was never mentioned by name. The Bible doesn’t usually follow the genealogy of the ungodly without a purpose. If so, then perfect generations ended with Noah. After that, we were just called men and sons of men. As an afterthought, (Besides in the book of Daniel) perhaps that’s a reason why Jesus always called himself the, “Son of Man”. He had to be blood related through Mary to be our Kinsman Redeemer.
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