Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmouth.

I'm Keith Simon.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair. And I'm Patrick Miller.

We're exploring stories from the first books of the Bible. Right now we're in Genesis.

Eric is listening to a book by Andrew Nagorski called 1941,

The Year Germany Lost the War.

And I was in the car with him on the way home from dinner

when I got caught up in one of the most sobering passages.

What I heard in the car is just one part of the story, but Nagorski was describing four mobile German

units, each composed of 500 men who averaged 1,350 murders per day of Jewish men, women, and children

for seven days a week for 100 weeks.

I'm going to leave it to you to do the math if you so desire. I know

it's good necessary to face the truth, but sometimes the truth is just incomprehensible.

And facing the truth is something most of the people involved either directly or indirectly couldn't do. After the war, many of the people

we would call sidelines, that is people who didn't actively

participate but also didn't stop it, said they had no idea what was going on with

their Jewish friends and neighbors. I think this leads us all to ask, where would I be?

What would I have done? Nova was born into a world like this. Noa was born into a world where there was no goodness, no self-control, and no limit to evil.

There are few biblical accounts where mankind was more violent and corrupt than in Genesis 6, just before the flood. Sexual

depravity had gotten so far out of hand that self-control was synonymous, with foolishness. God shortened life from over 900 years to a little over a hundred.

The violent were recognized as heroes. This is a world where Noah was born and the same nature he was born with.

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