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the Flies is a fictional story of a group of boys who survived a plane crash and lived together on a remote island. No adults. No government. No laws.
    The result? The civilized British chaps fell into savagery faster than you can say, “Gilligan’s Island.” One wonders if Golding plagiarized Genesis 6. Less than seventeen hundred years after creation, we read of the depravity of . . . us.
    Then 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 Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart (Gen. 6:5–6).
    Contrary to the modern-day self-esteem movement, the people described in Genesis 6 were not a special class of humans; they were people just like you and me. Left to ourselves, we too are evil continually. Nothing has changed.
    Totally Depraved
    Human beings are not only not perfect, we’re bad, we’re bad, we’re really, really bad. Without the curb of laws, government, and shame, we are not law-abiding citizens, we are wretches like the one the song refers to. “ Every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Gen. 6:5).
    Just 17 centuries after God created His image bearers, humans were behaving so badly that God was “sorry that He made man on the earth” (Gen. 6:6). That doesn’t mean that He made a mistake in creating us, it is simply an anthropomorphic term used for us to understand how God felt about our sin; it grieved Him. This is the first verse in the Bible that tells us God has feelings.
    God Has Feelings
    God is not ruled by emotions, because He is impassible (without passions), but He does indeed have feelings.
    1.God grieves.
    Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30).
    2.God rejoices.
    The Lord your God is in your midst,
    A victorious warrior.
    He will exult over you with joy ,
    He will be quiet in His love,
    He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy (Zeph. 3:17).
    3.God is angry.
    But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God, who will render to each person according to his deeds: to those who by perseverance in doing good seek for glory and honor and immortality, eternal life; but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and indignation (Rom. 2:5–8).
    4.God can be sad.
    Jesus wept (John 11:35).
    God Is Not Emotional
    Even though He has emotions, God is not careening from one emotion to another. He does not whiplash from one sentiment to another. In other words, God is not a teenager.
    We get our emotions from God, we certainly didn’t evolve them. Why would we? Our emotions come from God because our Maker has emotions.
    God has some attributes that are uniquely His (incommunicable attributes):
    >He alone is totally powerful: omnipotent (Matt. 19:26).
    >He alone is all knowing: omniscient (Isa. 46:10).
    >He alone is everywhere: omnipresent (Ps. 139:8).
    God also has attributes that we share with Him as image bearers of God (communicable attributes):
    >God thinks: we think (Isa. 55:8).
    >God works: we work (Ps. 139:13–14).
    >God has emotions: we have emotions (cf. above).
    God is not emotional, but He has emotions. When He sees the wickedness of man on full display, it displeases Him and grieves Him and even angers Him. Why?
    Sin Is Really, Really Sinful
    Sin is not simply a violation of His rules, sin is contrary to who He is. God is not merely a judge who sits on a courtroom bench and hands down sentences in compliance to standards written by others. God is the standard.
    He did not write the laws as a moral code that He Himself must keep. The laws of God are a perfect representation of His character and nature (Rom. 2:20). God is the