Evil or Prone to Evil?

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Gen. 6:5 . . . . For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Gen. 8:21 The two passages of Scripture, when read in their proper context, would at first sight appear to stand in irreconcilable contradiction with relation to each other. Both, indeed, announce the total depravity of the natural man in strongest terms. The imagination of...