Genesis 6

ow I knew that we might come up against potentially heretical notions if I went long enough, and my thought today may be heretical, but if it is, I ask the Church's forgiveness, because in writing I only seek to know and love God and help others to do the same by exploring God's Word (Jesus Christ) and God's word (Scripture and sacred tradition). I am by no means infallible or adverse to posting corrections when it is made clear to me I have gone off the rails. What follows is partly a speculation and not presented dogmatically.

We hear in Genesis 6 that God was "sorry" that he had made mankind, so wicked had they become. One wonders, given the current state of affairs in international and American national politics, what on Earth they could have done to upset God more than we ourselves have--then again, it is by no means certain that we ourselves are not even more wicked collectively, since God promised he would not destroy the world by water again, and many disasters have struck us, man-made and otherwise, lately.

This "sorry"ness is often described as an anthropomorphism by theologians, for God is a spirit and is incapable of being sorry for anything, because He exists outside of time and space. Yet I wonder if indeed God could be literally sorry, because He incarnated himself into the World through His Son. Furthermore, it has been speculated that Jesus came down upon the Earth either as theophanies or even in his incarnated form. Time and space do not bound God in the same way that it bounds created beings. As we know from Revelation, Jesus Christ was "slain from the foundation of the World." If his death is an event that encompasses all of time, might it not also be true that his incarnation stretches through all of time, although causally brought about by the Ever-virgin Mary in a particular time and place? And if this is the case, might not God literally grieve, through the person of the Son, over the Creation that had misused the gift of free will given to them?

At any rate, only through Jesus Christ can man understand the Father, by receiving the Holy Spirit which proceeds from both. By incarnating, Jesus brings the human into the divine sphere, makes that which is corruptible eternal, and theopomorphizes fallen humankind.