Understanding God's Righteous Judgement
To frame the global flood as “genocide” is to misread both the nature of God and the gravity of man’s rebellion. Genocide, as we understand it, springs from hatred and prejudice—an act of destruction rooted in human pride and cruelty. The flood, however, was the solemn outpouring of divine justice, born not of malice but of holiness. God does not react by impulse, like humans do, but He is ultimately longsuffering, and through perfect love, acts in restraint. Scripture paints a sobering picture of the world in Noah’s day: a civilisation so steeped in wickedness that “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5, KJV). This was not a fleeting moral lapse or a cultural disagreement—it was a total saturation of corruption, a world where violence had become the language of life and the earth itself groaned under the weight of man's depravity (Genesis 6:11–12). Yet even in the face of such pervasive evil, God did not act hastily. He waite...