Oops Of the Day

The earth was flooded by 40 days of rain.

Genesis 7:4 & 11-20; Genesis 8:2-3 & 17; Genesis 9:13-15; Genesis 2:5-6; Genesis 8:22

OOPS: The earth was flooded by 40 days of rain.

FACT:   Springs under the ocean burst open and the floodgates of the sky were opened (Genesis 7:11-12). The waters kept rising for 5 months (Genesis 7:18-20). But at the end, the springs under the sea were closed, but the floodgates of the sky were only restrained (Genesis 8:2-3). Before the flood, the earth was watered by circulating dew (Genesis 2:5-6) For the first time, humans saw blue sky. And, with rain capabilities, the rainbow was made possible (Genesis 9:13-15). Further, the earth now had seasons (Genesis 8:22)

Oops Of the Day

Noah and His Sons Built the Ark.

Genesis 5:32; Genesis 6:14-18; Genesis 11:10

OOPS: As soon as God told Noah how to build the ark, he and his sons got to work building it while their wives planted gardens to keep their families fed.

FACT: Noah’s sons were not even born yet. The flood occurred 120 years later (Genesis 6:3) Noah was 500 years old when began to build the ark (Genesis 5:32). Shem begat his first son when he was 100 years old, “2 years after the flood ” (Genesis 11:10).  So, Noah built on the ark for probably 20 years while his sons were growing up and finding wives to marry. 

Oops Of the Day

Those people in Noah’s day thought about sin all the time. 

I would never do that.  I am not evil.

Genesis 6:5-6; Genesis 2:16-17; Matthew 15:17-20

OOPS:  Evil is worse than ordinary sins.  Only murderers, rapists, thieves and abusers are evil.  Most people are not evil.  

FACT: Eve ate a piece of fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil; therefore, she became evil.  Jesus listed things in Matthew 15 that were sins from an evil heart.  Here is a list of sins – bad we do.  (It does not include sins of good we do not do.)  

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 lists sexual immorality, idolatry, adultery, prostitution, homosexuality, thievery, greed, drunkenness, slander, swindling.

Galatians 5:19-21 lists sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies.

Ephesians 4:31; 5:4f lists bitterness, rage, anger, brawling, slander, malice, obscenity, foolish talk, coarse joking, immorality, impurity, greed.

Philippians 2:3, 14 lists selfish ambition, vain conceit, complaining, arguing.

Colossians 3:8-9 lists anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy language, lying.

1 Timothy 1:9-10; 5:13; 6:3-5 lists lawbreaking, rebellion, ungodliness, unholiness, irreligion, murder, adultery, perversion, slave trading, lying, perjury, idleness, gossip, false teaching, conceit, controversial, quarrelsomeness, envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions, constant friction, robbing truth.

2 Timothy 3:2-8 lists loving self, loving money, boastfulness, pride, abusiveness, disobedience to parents, ungratefulness, unholiness, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherousness, rashness, conceit, lovers of pleasure, denying power of godliness, controlling the weak- willed, never acknowledging truth, opposing the truth, depraved of mind.

Titus 3:3, 9-11 lists foolishness, disobedience, deceit, enslaved by passions, malice, envy, hatred, foolish controversies, arguments, quarrels, divisiveness.

James 3:14-16; 4:1-3; 5:3-6 lists bitter envy, selfish ambition, boasting, denying the truth, disorder, fights, quarrels, murder, covetousness, quarrelsomeness, fighting, wrong motives, hoarding wealth, failing to pay wages, living in self-indulgence, condemning the innocent.

1 Peter 2:1; 4:3 lists malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, slander, debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, idolatry.

2 Peter 2:14-19 lists adulterous eyes, seducing, greedy, boastful, lustful, enticing, slaves of depravity.

Jude 7-8, 16 lists sexual immorality, perversion, rejecting authority, slandering celestial beings, grumbling, faultfinding, boastful, flatterers.

Revelation 21:8 lists cowardliness, disbelief, vileness, murder, sexual immorality, false healing, idolatry, lying.

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Did Angels Marry People?

Genesis 6:2,; Matthew 22:30; Genesis 5:3-4; Genesis 4:12 & 26; Genesis 6:l; Genesis 34:16; Hosea 1:10; II Corinthians 6:18; Deuteronomy 7:3

OOPS:  Sons of God were angels who married human women.

FACT: Angels do not marry at all. The sons of God were descendants of Seth. The daughters of men were descendants of Cain, Seth’s brother.  Later, the sons and daughters of God were believers in Jesus.

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How long were Adam and Eve Sinless?

Genesis 2:17; 3:23-24; 5:3

SURPRISE  Adam & Eve may have been sinless 100 years. 

FACT: Adam was 130 when his third son (Seth) was born. If Adam had Cain when Adam was 102 and had Abel when Adam was 105, they would have been teenagers shortly before Seth was born and about when Cain killed Abel. Therefore, Adam may have been 101 years old when Eve became pregnant with Cain after they left the Garden of Eden.

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Was the sheep Abel offered more valuable than the vegetables Cain offered?

Genesis 4:3-4

OOPS:  God accepted Abel’s sacrifice and rejected Cain’s sacrifice because Abel’s sheep was obviously more valuable than Cain’s vegetables.

FACT:  The Bible does not tell us how many vegetables Cain offered.  It could have been enough to feed an entire family for a year.  Or feed an entire village.  The attitudes of their hearts was the reason God accepted Abel’s and not Cain’s.  They went through the same motions of worship.  Attitude makes all the difference in the world.