When has violence NOT “filled the Earth”?
When has violence NOT “filled the Earth”?
You'll have to ask God, then, what He meant by this ... :-)
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Since we're taking our information from the authoritative and inerrant and infallible Word of God, then we have to ask what He meant by this.
I think that most people would understand what God meant in that, while violence has been around, even from the time of the Garden of Eden, that there are situations in which God waits until a "fullness" comes -- or a "maximum effect" happens.
You hear God speaking about the fullness of time, and, you see the terminology that God uses in "filled with violence" -- which is an indication of "extent".
And so yes, God knows that violence started even back at the Garden of Eden with murder, but God also knows that violence grows and then there is a "fullness" aspect to it and there is a "filled" aspect to it.
God waits until the "fullness of time" -- and then God brings judgment.
Most things have ebbed and flowed.
Violence, included.
A study more than 150 years ago, IIRC, documented that when church attendence was at its highest, drunkenness, murders etc. were at their lowest in New England.