Total Chaos and Corruption

Sunday June 1st, Genesis 6, Total Chaos and Corruption: 11 Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight and was full of violence. 12 God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 13 So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. This corruption is defined twice in this brief text. And the definition of the corruption of God’s intention for creation is………. Violence. Some would say we have not come far in this realm. There have been a few years without wars in the last hundred, two hundred, three hundred…….. years of human history. We spend over half of our budget on military and the major export of our nation is military hardware. In the last bit of our nation’s history we have started wars, authorized torture, taken away rights on and on all in reaction to someone else attacking us. On and on we go, spiraling ever downward while the few make billions off the contracts. We have said we are doing this in the name of God. I don’t think God is impressed. I think God would rather see a new creation whose focus is peace for all rather than a bigger piece of the pie.