The New Creation that Wasn't

The world has been cleansed by the flood, and God has started over with one man who is "righteous and blameless", Noah. We might think that things would be different, but here in Noah's drunkenness and Ham's sin, we see that "the intention of man's heart is sinful from his youth." No amount of external cleansing on the outside can cure the sin and corruption within. What is needed is a new and greater Noah, from the lineage of Shem, the seed of the woman who will crush the serpent's head.