Further, God is shown regretting His act of creation, and after seeing Noah, changing His mind again. That, too, shows that all the actors in the picture were free agents.
5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times, 6 It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart, 7 He said: I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth, from man even to beasts, from the creeping thing even to the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. 8 But Noe found grace before the Lord. 9 These are the generations of Noe: Noe was a just and perfect man in his generations, he walked with God.[...]
13 He said to Noe: The end of all flesh is come before me, the earth is filled with iniquity through them, and I will destroy them with the earth. 14 Make thee an ark...
The story is told as if God, the wicked men, and Noah are all three acting on their own will. Let us recall another time where Holy Moses shows God as if confused: when God is looking for Adam after Adam sinned. These literary devices are there so that a student of scripture may know that man has free will, which he can turn to good with Divine Grace.
So this is how we know, from the scripture in front of you.
literary devices?
Moses shows God as if confused?
Do you have like a decoder ring to help you read the secret meaning of the text?
Urim and Thummim?
A peep stone in a hat?
Wow. Simply breath taking. I have no response for your folly ... none.