Text: Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. The LORD smelled the soothing aroma; and the LORD said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will never again destroy every living thing, as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." (Genesis 8:20-22)
Intro: Contradictions
I. Genesis 6:5 & Genesis 8:21
God’s resolve & the reason given
Answer #1: total depravity?
Answer #2: God overlooks?
Answer #3: the soothing aroma
Ephesians 5:2
II. Result:
Who? Genesis 8:21; 9:9, 11
Theology: God’s favor
Calvin
Kuyper
Hoeksema
1924 Synod of Kalamazoo
Point 1 - Concerning the favorable attitude of God toward mankind in general and not only toward the elect, the Synod declares that it is certain, on the ground of Scripture and the Confession, that there is, besides the saving grace of God, shown only to those chosen unto eternal life, also a certain favor or grace of God which He shows to all His creatures.
Where we agree
Where we disagree
Our text & Matthew 5:44
The term
Caution: The abuse
Danger:
Danger: