The verse you alluded to in Genesis is not about all mankind. It is about the people before the flood. They had become so bad that God had to wipe them out. There is no affirmation that all men are in that condition at all times (Steve pg.8)
'For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be. (Matt 24:37-39)
Seems to me that Jesus uses the flood as an example of the end times with no distinction of one set of people being any different than the others. How are humans now different from humans then? Haven’t all sinned, there being no distinction between Jew or Gentile. Where do you have a scripture to support the goodness of man, and his becoming, wiser, purer and less sinful with time?
… David and Solomon tell us men are sinful (no one doubts this)
I picked the verse because it was relative to Paidions question;
So what is the purpose of these "deserving, fair, and just" punishments, JR (Paidion Dec 18)
So that You are
justified when You speak And
blameless when You judge... 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity… David says; For I know my transgressions, And my sin is ever before me, I think this speaks of the continuing immoral condition of mans heart. David cries out for God to wash him with hyssop and create in him a clean heart. David is aware (as I am) that unless God changes me I will only ‘continue’ to sin. But
we must desire God to recreate our heart, it is a choice that God asks us to make.
… and Isaiah describes his own nation in his own times.
Woe to the sinful nation, a people whose guilt is great, a brood of evildoers, children given to corruption!... From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness Seems to me Isaiah has no problem echoing the same idea as Moses in Genesis 8:21. The human heart is evil from childhood Paul echoes this in Ephesians; “were by nature children of wrath” (Eph.2:2) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience (5:6)
For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them. (Col.3:6)
"Evil men and impostors" become worse and worse. This is the tendency with evil men. Are all men evil men and impostors, according to scripture? (Steve)
Are we not talking about people in hell post-mortem, a large percentage will be the worst of the worst, and in varying degrees ‘all kinds’ of sinners, do liars and adulterers improve or soften the longer they sit in hell? We have nothing that affirms that. Where are 'your' scriptural affirmations that some people get better and better? (Since you mock mine). And what about these evil men, do they start improving post-mortem?