"Knock, Knock!"

 "Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:" (Hebrews 2:7 KJV)

  "But there is a great difference between Adam's sin and God's gracious gift. For the sin of this one man, Adam, brought death to many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of forgiveness to many through this other man, Jesus Christ. And the result of God's gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man's sin. For Adam's sin led to condemnation, but God's free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins. For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God's wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ." (Romans 5:12-17 NLT) 

 Because there are several issues here to be sorted out, there is something that makes this illustration more about the purpose for Jesus to be, shall we say, made lower, because He needed to be made flesh and blood, as it were, to become mortal. In other words, He needed to bleed and be bruise, just like you and I; He needed to live and breathe, struggling and feeling anguish; "a man of many sorrows!"  

 As far as the flood, which caused all that breathed through the nostrils to die; God made a promise not to flood the earth again; and He sealed that promise with the rainbow. In the original text, the actual sign is not a rainbow, but God's uses the definition of, "His bow," as if the bow is drawn on the horizon, signifying that the next time He judges the entire earth, the arrow will be pointed towards Him! 

 Yes, you heard that right! The next time that the whole earth was to be judged, the judgement will be on Him; totally and completely on His Son, who will take on the judgement of all the sins of the world! You can't make this up! That the Creator of the heaven and earth, the One that became flesh, just to be made vulnerable to pain, suffering, and death, would lay down His life, knowing full well that He also had the power to save Himself; but gave up that power in order to carry out the Father's wonderful plan of salvation, for all mankind! 

 No wonder there are so many people that can't buy into that...

"The message of the cross is foolish to those who are headed for destruction! But we who are being saved know it is the very power of God. As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and discard the intelligence of the intelligent." So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish. Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom, he used our foolish preaching to save those who believe. It is foolish to the Jews, who ask for signs from heaven. And it is foolish to the Greeks, who seek human wisdom. So when we preach that Christ was crucified, the Jews are offended and the Gentiles say it's all nonsense. But to those called by God to saltation, both Jews and Gentiles, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God's weakness is stronger than the greatest of man's strength." (1 Corinthians 1:18-25 NLT)