Doesn't the Flood prove God doesn't love everyone?
No. The Flood account is full of God's patience and warning: 120 years of waiting, a preacher of righteousness sent, and God grieved, not eager, over the judgment. Equal love met with opposite response.
What the text states
God gave 120 years before judgment: "yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years" (Genesis 6:3). Noah was "a preacher of righteousness" to that world (2 Peter 2:5). And God was grieved: "it repented the LORD that he had made man... and it grieved him at his heart" (Genesis 6:6).
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The answer
Read what surrounds the judgment. God waited 120 years (Genesis 6:3), time to repent. He sent a preacher, Noah, "a preacher of righteousness" (2 Peter 2:5), so the world was warned while the ark went up in front of them for decades. And God was not eager: He was "grieved... at his heart" (Genesis 6:6). That is not the picture of a God who never loved them. Noah "by faith... prepared an ark... by the which he condemned the world" (Hebrews 11:7), his faith built the boat; their unbelief ignored it. The love was the same; the response was opposite. Judgment after a century of patience and a preacher's warning is not the absence of love. It is the end of a long withholding of justice.
What this means for you
God's patience is not His indifference. The same longsuffering that gave the old world 120 years is extended to you now, "not willing that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9). The warning is still going up. The door is still open.
What this does not prove
This does not deny that God judges, He drowned a guilty world. It denies only that the judgment proves God never loved them. The patience and the warning prove He did.
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