Recently, I have been reading through the book of Genesis. In Genesis chapter 6, we are told that God, because of the great wickedness upon the earth, determined to destroy all of mankind. Genesis 6:5 "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." Genesis 6:7 "And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the cre