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GENESIS 8​

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded.

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​Is there any meaning to “great wind” other than wind of great force?
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Genesis 8:6

After forty days Noah opened a window he had made in the ark

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​Why 40 days for Noah opened a window?​
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Genesis 8:7

and sent out a raven, and it kept flying back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

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​Why did Noah send out a raven first?​
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Genesis 8:8

Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.

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​Why did Noah send out the raven first in the last verse, and a dove here?
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Genesis 8:10

He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

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​Why did Noah wait 7 more days to check for land again?
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Genesis 8:19

All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds—everything that moves on land—came out of the ark, one kind after another.

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​Is there significance to Noah coming out of the ark before the animals, whereas animals preceded man in the creation of man in Genesis 1?
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​It does not specifically say they came out in pairs, does that imply there may have been some breeding happening on the ark?
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​Genesis 8:21

The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

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​Does God know at that moment man will still return to evil? Does He regret all the destruction the flood had brought, and does he second guess himself with the extremity of his act?​
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​If we go with the fact that God does indeed know we will always return to our evil ways, which I believe he does, then what was his real purpose for the flood?​
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​Are we born with evil, or is it learned?​
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Genesis 8:22

“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”

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​What can be interpreted when God says, “As long as the earth endures”?
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​Is our society today, as a whole, having more of a theocentric view, or a anthropocentric view?​
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