Now it came to pass,
when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to
them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful;
and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
And the Lord said, “My
Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days
shall be one hundred and twenty years. I
will ask man his opinion before making this decision though.” There were giants on the earth in those days,
and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and
they bore children to them. Those were
the might men who were of old, men of renown.
Then the Lord saw that
man did some things that could be considered wicked, but God didn’t want to
judge their deeds. And the Lord was sort
of sorry that He had set in motion the events that evolved into the race of
mankind.
So the Lord said, “The
earth may be destroyed by a flood that I cannot control, so I had better warn
someone so that all things that evolved on the earth won’t perish.” The Lord looked and saw that Noah was a
self-defined moral man and that pleased the Lord.
And God said to Noah, “The
end of all flesh may come about soon due to a flood. This isn’t because of wickedness, for I don’t
judge the deeds of men. You maybe ought
to build a ark out of gopherwood with some rooms inside of it. Its length ought to be three hundred cubits,
its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits. You should also make a window for the ark and
it should be a cubit from above and there should be a door in the side of the
ark. You should make it with lower,
second, and third decks.
And so Noah, thinking
that God might be right about a flood, decided to grace God by obeying His will. And so Noah began to build the ark after a
period of two or three years. He went
out and began to cut down large maple trees and pine trees, all of which he
thought would be good for floatation.
Then Noah’s sons came and said, “Father, God said to use gopherwood, but
you are using maple and pine!” And Noah
replied, “Sons, judge not that ye be not judged. I believe that these woods are better than
what God told me to use. Besides, my
personal walk with God is none of your business! You cannot judge me as not
obeying the will of God!” And so Noah’s
sons were silenced and they realized how much wiser Noah was than God.
And so, Noah and his
family were saved when the flood came about that God was lucky enough to guess
was coming. And God rejoiced that Noah
had used his own knowledge of wood and that he had used more buoyant wood than
gopherwood, because gopherwood would have sunk.
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