ContradictionsReading order 423Bible context 2 min read
Was God satisfied with his creation?
God's favorable judgment at creation gives way to grief and regret before the flood, showing a changed assessment rather than simultaneous opposite judgments.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Foundational
- A central claim about origins, salvation, divine justice, or religious authority.
Approval of the initial creation and regret after later human conduct concern a changed world at different times.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
God judges everything he made to be very good
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 1:31
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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God regrets creating humans and resolves to destroy creatures
And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Genesis 6:6-7
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)