Genesis 5-8

Chapter 5
So in this chapter there's nothing too interesting too me, except that everyone seemed to live around 800-900 years old. I can't even imagine what it must have been like to live in a world like that for 800-900 years!! Of course, hell is even worse, and an eternity is obviously much longer. I thank the Lord for grace. We don't have it as bad here anymore, and we only live for about 80 years, and if we accept Jesus in our hearts as our Lord and Savior, and give up our fleshly life for new life in Him, we get to spend our eternity in a Paradise with Him. How great is that? We don't deserve any of it of course, because we're all wretched creatures by nature. Reading the Old Testament paints an interesting picture of what we are without Christ. It is only by His grace and power that we are able to do good in this world. Praise be to God.
We also learn that Noah is 500 when he begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Chapter 6
Verse 4 has me a bit confused. Are Nephilim giants? Are they good, bad, what are they? It seems they are a result of some sort of Godly beings joining with women and having children together. But then it says they were heroes. It certainly has me intrigued. I am lost on this one. If someone has some insight I am all ears, or possibly eyes, as the case may be.
Anyhow, God decides He's had it with the evil in the world and decides to wipe the slate clean. He gives Noah a huge job of making an ark big enough for his family and all the types of animals on the earth. Now I have heard many people say it is ridiculous to think that Noah could have gone out and gotten all of the animals to just come with him and get on this big ark. They're right, but that's not what happened at all. Verse 20 says that 2 of every animal would come to him. God sent them. Something I take from all of this, is when God gives us a job that seems difficult or just plain impossible, He is there helping us all the way. When it is truly His will, a job of Him, it will be finished. He will see too it. I think when we are struggling with jobs to the point of failure, we ought to question whether the job is really in God's interest or our own. Not that the going won't get tough when it's of Him, but we just need to be realistic in our evaluation of what we are doing and who it's really for.
Chapter 7
Everything happened the way God commanded and the floods remained on the earth for about 5 months! That is a long time to hang out on an ark with every species of animal to take care of. And I am sorry to bring this up, but that's a lot of poop patrol to deal with. Yuk!!
Chapter 8
So apparently the floods only started to go down after 5 months. They still had to wait on the ark. The ark landed on Mount Ararat, and there they waited. It's seems to me that they were on the ark for about a year and 2 months? It's hard to follow. But I think that's the gist of it anyhow. Finally God tells them they can come out.
Noah makes an altar and offers a sacrafice to the Lord, which pleases Him. Then the Lord says in verse 21 "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though ^[a] every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done..." The Lord Himself says that "every inclination of man's heart is evil". How then can anyone think it is us who chooses Him. Why would evil choose God? It wouldn't. Of course something else interesting, is how then can God find it in Himself to bless evil hearted people. Not one of us deserves it, and no Christian should ever think themselves any better than a non-Christian. God has amazing Grace, that we could never understand fully while on this earth in our fleshly bodies. He is Amazing! We are scum. Plain and simple.