Man's Condition Without Christ

Why doesn't God destroy the world and all that is in it and begin again as he did in the days of Noah. Is it because man is not a bad as he once was in those days? Did God somehow destroy something when he sent the flood such that man is at least a little better off and more worthy of God's mercy?

How proposterous is that thought. How God saw man in the days of Noah has not changed one bit, with but one exception, for as in those days so today "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." The only exception to this fact, the only difference that stays God's hand now, is the promised redeemer. Not my goodness, but the righteousness of Christ, the fact the God has adopted children here on earth, children who appear before him as holy is the one thing that keeps him from reigning down his just wrath and destroying all of creation.

That is better mercy than I could ever hope to earn.

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