Flood water is one of the Bible’s most worked images. It stands for judgment, for grief, and for the thing we cannot hold back — and Scripture uses all three without deciding between them. The flood everyone thinks of Genesis 6 to 9 is the obvious place, and it is worth reading more carefully than it is usually remembered. The account is not mainly about water. It is about a decision, a boat, a year of waiting in the dark,…

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