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Does Genesis Contradict Itself About Creation Being Very Good?

“Genesis 1 says God saw everything he had made and it was very good, yet a few chapters later God regrets making man because every thought of his heart was only evil. Either the creation was not very good, or God did not know what he was making.”

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