The Inclinations Of The Heart

Genesis 6:5-7
The Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. 6 The Lord was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain. 7 So the Lord said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth –men and animals, and creatures that move along the ground, and birds of the air–for I am grieved that I have made them.”

This account is right before the flood. Noah and his family were the only survivors that passed from the pre-flood to the post-flood world. Did killing off an entire generation of people somehow reverse the inclinations of man's thoughts so that now the inclinations of the thoughts of our heart are only good all of the time?

Does the Bible speak of Adam and Noah being the two covenant heads that all of man kind fit under, or was it Adam and Christ? If a righteous boy of about 16, finds his Mom, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa all drowned; does their death guarantee that all the future generations from the boy onward will be righteous? Did the death of the family reverse the sinfulness in mankind's heart? I think not. I believe our inclinations are exactly the same as the men before the flood.

The opposite of evil is good. Jesus said “no one is good except God.” The Bible says that “every inclination of the thoughts of his [our] heart [s] was [are] only evil all the time. I’ll let you work out the details.