創世記7:6-24

7:6 當洪水氾濫在地上的時候，挪亞整六百歲。
7:7 挪亞就同他的妻和兒子兒婦都進入方舟，躲避洪水。
7:8 潔淨的畜類和不潔淨的畜類，飛鳥並地上一切的昆蟲，
7:9 都是一對一對地，有公有母，到挪亞那裡進入方舟，正如上帝所吩咐挪亞的。
7:10 過了那七天，洪水氾濫在地上。
7:11 當挪亞六百歲，二月十七日那一天，大淵的泉源都裂開了，天上的窗戶也敞開了，
7:12 四十晝夜降大雨在地上。
7:13 正當那日，挪亞和他三個兒子閃、含、雅弗，並挪亞的妻子和三個兒婦，都進入方舟。
7:14 他們和百獸，各從其類，一切牲畜，各從其類，爬在地上的昆蟲，各從其類，一切禽鳥，各從其類，都進入方舟。
7:15 凡有血肉、有氣息的活物，都一對一對地到挪亞那裡，進入方舟。
7:16 凡有血肉進入方舟的，都是有公有母，正如上帝所吩咐挪亞的。耶和華就把他關在方舟裡頭。
7:17 洪水氾濫在地上四十天，水往上長，把方舟從地上漂起。
7:18 水勢浩大，在地上大大地往上長，方舟在水面上漂來漂去。
7:19 水勢在地上極其浩大，天下的高山都淹沒了。
7:20 水勢比山高過十五肘，山嶺都淹沒了。
7:21 凡在地上有血肉的動物，就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，和爬在地上的昆蟲，以及所有的人，都死了。
7:22 凡在旱地上、鼻孔有氣息的生靈都死了。
7:23 凡地上各類的活物，連人帶牲畜、昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅了，只留下挪亞和那些與他同在方舟裡的。
7:24 水勢浩大，在地上共一百五十天。

⁶ Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth. ⁷ And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. ⁸ Pairs of clean and unclean animals, of birds and of all creatures that move along the ground, ⁹ male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, as God had commanded Noah. ¹⁰ And after the seven days the floodwaters came on the earth.
¹¹ In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. ¹² And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
¹³ On that very day Noah and his sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, together with his wife and the wives of his three sons, entered the ark. ¹⁴ They had with them every wild animal according to its kind, all livestock according to their kinds, every creature that moves along the ground according to its kind and every bird according to its kind, everything with wings. ¹⁵ Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life in them came to Noah and entered the ark. ¹⁶ The animals going in were male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the Lord shut him in.
¹⁷ For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth. ¹⁸ The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. ¹⁹ They rose greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains under the entire heavens were covered. ²⁰ The waters rose and covered the mountains to a depth of more than fifteen cubits. 21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. ²² Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. ²³ Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
²⁴ The waters flooded the earth for a hundred and fifty days.

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    洪水對陸地的生物是具有毀滅性，由其是動物類，正如經文所說：「凡在地上有血肉的動物，就是飛鳥、牲畜、走獸，和爬在地上的昆蟲，以及所有的人，都死了。凡在旱地上、鼻孔有氣息的生靈都死了。凡地上各類的活物，連人帶牲畜、昆蟲，以及空中的飛鳥，都從地上除滅了！」

    這讓我們看見上帝的決心，但是在這毀滅之行動，上帝仍有拯救，正如經文所說：「只留下挪亞和那些與他同在方舟裡的」！這些能夠存留是來自上帝的意志，不是這群動物願不願意！然而挪亞翰祂的家人的得救，也是因為他們用自由意志來選擇順服上帝的引導。也因此，自由意志不是用來拒絕上帝！

    人真正的自由就是不要讓自己落入滅亡，當然就是要來跟隨聖靈的引導而得上帝得拯救。雖然有人強調，自由意志可以選擇不順服，但是那是不可能的事情！因為，自由意志是要人得拯救，不是要人滅亡！