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The First Time God Gets Angry – Character of God E7

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Let the Creation Just Be

God's judgment in the Bible is about God handing creation over to its own natural processes of decreation, disintegration and disorder. The flood story isn't just about a lot of heavy rain from our point of view; it's undoing Genesis 1. It's the collapse of the waters back in to consume the dry land. That's what the exile from Eden and the flood story are trying to tell us about. But within this worldview, God's judgment is to relax his ordering power and to give humans over to where they came from and where they're going,. which is back to the dust.

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