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Different approaches to reading the flood account.

The flood can symbolize a second creation of the earth.

A strange passage in Genesis 6.1-4. This text introduces concepts like Watchers, Giants, and a conflict between Enoch and the forces of darkness. It can be read as a polemic against Babylonian religious and political views.

Mount Sinai and Mount Hermon as headquarters of the opposing forces of good and evil.

Jesus addresses his disciples in Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Hermon in Matthew 16.13-19.

The harsh reality of the portrayal of destruction throughout the scriptures. The Book of Mormon provides a pattern for how to live in peace.

The people of Noah’s day were swept off because the earth was corrupt and filled with violence.

The Lord sent a prophet and gave them 120 years to change. The people were warned before they were destroyed.

Noah’s Ark can be a symbol of the temple.

A pattern of how to follow a prophet. It takes patience and faith to follow prophets in a day of peace.

The bow in the cloud is a token of the covenant in Genesis 9.12-13. When we look up at the rainbow we are remembering the promise of God to bring Enoch and Zion to earth.

Ways to read the curse Noah gives Canaan in Genesis 9.20-27.

The Table of Nations in Genesis 10. The dividing of the land and the languages. The Tower of Babel as a polemic against the beliefs of the Babylonians.