chapters 5-11 Genesis

In these chapters, it is talked about how man began to multiply on the face of the earth, and God was unhappy with man and wanted to clear them from the face of the earth as he had created them, all except for Noah and his family, who had found grace in the eyes of God. God chooses to spare Noah from the punishment he will unleash upon mankind, and I believe this represents that while there may be a million guilty souls, there is an innocent one that will be spared to make it all right again. But I must ask myself, why did God choose to save Noah who was not flawless and could have turned out to be as sinfull as anyone else, instead of creating a new race of human beings that was more perfect, like him?

In the next chapters, God tells Noah to build an ark and take of each clean beast he should take seven and of each beast that was not clean, he should take a couple. And so Noah did as he was bid and when he was finished, God made the earth and its inhabbitants drown, none but the Noah and his arch survived. And by the time the flood had ceased, after forty days and forty nights, Noah sent forth a dove, to see if the waters had decreased, but she found no rest, and returned. So Noah waited for seven more days and then sent the dove again. And this time, when she returned, she had in her mouth an olive leaf, which meant that there was land.

And this is why the dove is a symbol of peace, because it represents the truce between God and human kind. She was the one who brought the news that the punishment God unleashed upon human kind was over, and he would never do such a thing ever again.

And so, God blessed Noah, and told him to multiply and replenish th earth, and so it came to be. And then the children of men decided to build a city and a tower that would reach up to heaven, a tower named Babel, in which everyone spoke a different language, and so chaos was all they wittnessed, for they didn't understand eachother.