The Great Flood: A Love Story

The most famous story of the ancient biblical texts, the flood story, tells us not just about a God of judgment and wrath, but about a God of love, insisted Phil Kniss, pastor of Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA. He described a God who can "repent and change his mind." This story shows the human angle of the divine will, he said, giving us assurance of God's most essential characteristic, his core nature, as that of love. "God must really care about who we are and about how we live with each other. He is not a cold, remote and uncaring deity who gets into random battles with other gods and hardly notices when humans suffer."