People confuse consequences with abuse.
Consequence is defined as: "a result or effect of an action or condition."
Abuse
- a result or effect of an action or condition.
- treat (a person or an animal) with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly
- assault (someone, especially a woman or child) sexually.
- use or treat in such a way as to cause damage or harm
- speak in an insulting and offensive way to or about (someone)
These are two, separate and distinct events although there are those people who do not conceptualize them separately.
An abuse and a consequence are different but it is perhaps better to have practical applications for clarity.
- Noah’s flood- God takes out multitudes of people and animals. (Genesis 6:1-7:5)
The first, and most important question that must be answered is why did God send the flood with which He intended to destroy all but 8 people and the animals on the ark?
To understand, one must examine the etymology of some words used in the Biblical account of what happened.
Genesis 6:1-8-
“Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of Godsaw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
3 And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strivewith man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” 4 There were giantson the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. 7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 9 This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations.Noah walked with God.10And Noah begot three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japeth.11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence,12 So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.”
- The “Sons of God” refers to fallen angels according to the Bible, Josephus, the Tanakh, the Septuagint, and the Book of Enoch.
- The word “perfect” is the Hebrew word #8549- “tamiym”- sound. From the root word # 8552- “tamam”-be complete
- The word “violence” is the Hebrew word #2555- “chamac”- Cruel, oppressive. From the root word #2554-“Chamac”-to make bare, to imagine wrongly.
- The word “corrupted” is the Hebrew word #7843- “shacath”- to decay, to ruin, to batter, to mar
When one combines the story of the flood in context with a Biblical definition of the words utilized therein and the extra-canonical texts available that support the account; one obtains a clear understanding of what happened and why.
The Sons of God were angels that lusted after human women. They came to earth and made those women pregnant by possessing the bodies of human men who were practicing various forms of sun god worship and leaving their bodies open to possession. The seed of these unions were giants – they are called “men of renown” in the above verses. This simply put is the Hebrew word Nephilim. It means half man and half angelic being. When this happened, the enemy, satan had open access to people and their minds because these particular angels already had it in their hearts to rebel against God and align themselves with the wicked one. Then they provoked every
