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The First Time God Gets Angry – Character of God E7
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The Flood Is a Symbol of Divine Judgment
The flood was an ancient symbol of destruction and disorder. It's a fitting medium for the dissolution of creation as it overwhelms every boundary returns creation to the primordial, undifferentiated deep that existed before Yahweh spoke boundaries into being. The plain sense of the Hebrew text conveys something very different from most English translations. We are left with the sense that God is not so much sending the flood to punish the world as much as facilitating through the flood the inevitable descent into chaos caused by human destructiveness and violence.
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