Did God Make a Mistake With the Flood?
God wipes the slate clean with The Flood and starts over with Noah.
Unfortunately, Noah’s potential for sin wasn’t wiped clean, and after he begins to rebuild civilization, he foolishly gets drunk and lies “uncovered” in his tent. Seeing his father in that state, Noah’s son Ham does something shameful to him. (At the very least, he doesn’t respect his father and tells his brothers about his father’s foolishness; at the most, there could be some kind of incestuous activity.)
Either way, the man who was supposed to be the hope for humanity clearly isn’t, and neither is his family.
Did God make a mistake?
I think the message of Genesis 1-11 is that there is no simple fix for humanity. Even the good ones among us are susceptible to sin and foolishness.
God will have to fix humanity another way….