Genesis 06: Chaos Explodes

Genesis 6 has a reputation for the wild stuff: “sons of God,” Nephilim, and a flood big enough to erase a violent world. We go there. But we also refuse to miss the sentence that changes the whole chapter: God looks at what humanity has become and “it broke his heart.” That’s not trivia. That’s the emotional and spiritual center of the story. We walk through the text step by step, including why Genesis first mattered so much to a newly liberated Israel surrounded by pagan creation myths. The...