Eeeek!!! So excited to read what you have to say on these passages. 🤓 Some of my favourite bits of scripture here!
Have also recently been musing on how the Israelites, as a largely desert-based, desert-bound people, would differ in their views of water to a group like the ancient Polynesians... or whether there might be something universal in the water-as-life, water-as-death dichotomy. Fascinating stuff! Bring on the puns!
I learned along the way that desert peoples saw rain as a sign of God's mercy. In the story of Noah’s Ark, there was so much rain that it was experienced as water. For Noah, the water was uplifting which I think is resurrection imagery. Note that Noah was lifted up on wood. This is a foreshadowing of Christ's crucifixion and the impact of it. For the people outside the Ark, the water was experienced as a devastating force, perhaps cruel or vicious and of course, deadly. Noah probably saw the impact of the water on the wicked as justice. From God's viewpoint, it is all the same thing, overwhelming amounts of mercy. Its different impact on people was because of the choices made by those people.
I will be interested in this newsletter because I was doing something very similar on my own. I launched Provoking Satan two months ago.
Eeeek!!! So excited to read what you have to say on these passages. 🤓 Some of my favourite bits of scripture here!
Have also recently been musing on how the Israelites, as a largely desert-based, desert-bound people, would differ in their views of water to a group like the ancient Polynesians... or whether there might be something universal in the water-as-life, water-as-death dichotomy. Fascinating stuff! Bring on the puns!
I learned along the way that desert peoples saw rain as a sign of God's mercy. In the story of Noah’s Ark, there was so much rain that it was experienced as water. For Noah, the water was uplifting which I think is resurrection imagery. Note that Noah was lifted up on wood. This is a foreshadowing of Christ's crucifixion and the impact of it. For the people outside the Ark, the water was experienced as a devastating force, perhaps cruel or vicious and of course, deadly. Noah probably saw the impact of the water on the wicked as justice. From God's viewpoint, it is all the same thing, overwhelming amounts of mercy. Its different impact on people was because of the choices made by those people.
I will be interested in this newsletter because I was doing something very similar on my own. I launched Provoking Satan two months ago.