A10 - The Flood: Covenant with Noah and Birth of the Nations (Gen 5-11)

God did not abandon man after the fall but promised him a future redemption (Gen 3:15). But humanity became so corrupt that God decided to destroy the world by means of a flood, preserving only Noah and his family in the ark. After the flood, God made a covenant with Noah, promising to never again wipe out the human race with a flood. He also gave seven basic commandments to Noah and to the new human family that would spring from him. The flood was a "decreation" of the world, and a “new creation” that prefigured the "new creation" of baptism.