B-log

In my previous post, I argued for the legitimacy of the biblical claim of a global flood that nearly eradicated humans from the face of the earth. The Bible says God preserved a remnant of eight people to repopulate the earth. Significantly, it also states that God gave the rainbow as an evidence that he would never again flood the earth as a form of judgment upon its inhabitants.

Skeptics scoff at this, explaining the rational process for the presence of rainbows. I don’t disagree with these explanations. However, I would suggest that the logical, scientific explanation for rainbows does nothing to discredit the faith belief in what the rainbow represents. In fact, I would submit that the explanation of a rainbows existence and the rationale for why rainbows exist are at least partially exclusive. But I digress.

Despite the phenomenon of rainbows, we continually experience flooding. Sometimes on a widespread scale. While the list of floods in the last fifty years is impressive, it’s interesting to note that there is no record of any second global flood. (Note, while many efforts are made to discredit the account of the original flood, much historic, geological, and anthropological evidence supports the biblical claim)

God never promised that there would never be another flood. He promised that he would never use flooding waters as an expression of global judgment. Some people want to suggest that God brought the earthquake and tsunami to Japan as judgment upon the nation for its pagan beliefs. First, I’ll say I’m not qualified to declare unconditionally and authoritatively that this is or is not an expression of God’s judgment.

I personally don’t think Japan’s calamities are a picture of God’s wrath. If it is, the United States should be in a collective state of woe for the impending judgment awaiting it (as a self-identified nation “under God”). Rather, I go back to my previous statement (made in prior posts) that we now live in a broken world with a significantly larger quantity of water cycling through its closed system. Consequently, catastrophic floods are a periodic and unfortunate phenomenon.