tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29874277.post8680547403512247029..comments2023-06-27T06:13:15.376-04:00Comments on Jack's Winning Words: Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04054697504587480683noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29874277.post-37162422637001379402015-12-22T09:48:04.424-05:002015-12-22T09:48:04.424-05:00We were talking about this kind of thing last nigh...We were talking about this kind of thing last night in Bible study. Specifically, we were talking about Noah and what was his thinking as God was telling him to build an ark and that all the people around him, except for his family, were going to be destroyed. A couple of years ago, in Bible study, we read a book about "Love Wins All" --I believe was the title--NY Times bestseller in the reviews--something to the effect that all were going to be eventually in heaven or something. I believe we are living in a very pluralistic culture and have a real fear of "demonizing" others or thinking in terms of "black and white", deep down believing it's more rational to think in terms of "gray" I think maybe, if we were Noah, we would have had an extremely hard time believing--and further acting upon--the mindset that so many people should--in God's plan--be destroyed. We're hamstrung by our spirituality of loving and not being judgmental, that we're also having trouble discerning the motivations and intentions of others to harm and destroy. But that seems to be the way that everything that is really brutal and traumatic starts--with the banality of not being able to see evil until the evil gets so big it's impossible to miss seeing it. And then a big flood happens. God's hands in the mix. <br />S.H. in MIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com