Gen 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence, through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Sparklite2, it's not that man isn't sufficiently in awe of God. But scripture records that the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. Not learning what God expects and just doing your own thing, tends to lead to really bad decisions. And eventually God feels the duty to end the injustices.
“Not learning what God expects and just doing your own thing, tends to lead to really bad decisions. “
Since God knows your decisions before He created you, why did He create you to make really bad decisions?
The field is decaying because God loves Irony.
And the amount of it His creation is generating on the Earth's surface is counter-acting the iron in its core.
Not to worry though, Tragedy tends to level Irony over time.
On a more Sirius note...
I saw your back and forth with non-believers. I'm sure you know Christians are not obligated in that regard beyond the first indications of willful spiritual ignorance.
The fact that you mentioned the Noah flood in the course of a discussion about free will is kinda ironic. Because the free will God desires for us in this age required our non-willful ignorance of spiritual events prior and ignorance regarding the parts of His current plan not yet revealed at that point in time.
That field of non-willed ignorance was rapidly decaying in the time of Noah. Due to the willfully disobedient sons of Gods breaking the rules and coming here. Those guys, quite literally, know too much. Plus, as the beginning of the chapter you quoted reveals: they knocked up the daughters of men creating unwanted hybrids.
THAT is why the Noah flood came about.
Satan was good at one time. Like most (not all) of God's higher creation, Satan had free will. He fell. He conned a third God's children to rebel.
The ignorance-driven free will God gives us today has to do with this being a second chance - mostly for the rebels whom He did not wish to destroy before another chance for them to choose Him over Death.
God is not a robot and does not want robots for main population of His kids - although He did make creatures without free will too, for obvious reasons they tend to work security -Ezekiel, Rev, etc.
What God wants from man is love. Which is only real if it is via free will choosing.
As His plan unfolded over millennia, the final choice becomes, for our sake, much easier with Christ.
We are now more free than ever to personally choose Life or Death. And the resolution of our various sins in the meantime is 100% up to us to dispose via repentance in Christ - no more blood or rotten church hierarchy needed to cleanse us.
Certainly God would be happy if all chose Him this time. But that is not likely. It would be difficult to read the bible and not understand that we are here today for the purpose of winnowing the still willfully disobedient chaff.