Genesis 7 and 8: The Epic Flood

When I was younger, I had the horrible idea to watch the Titanic while on a cruise. Not my brightest moment, but thankfully, I relaxed when I realized we were in the tropics with no iceberg in sight. In today’s episode of Genesis 7, God commanded Noah to build a massive ship and unfortunately, there is no happy vacation element to this story. In fact, as Susan reminds us, the story of Noah is a bleak and epic tragedy, or in her words, a “carefully detailed and detached description of destruction.” It is this detachment that makes it easy to think of Noah’s story as a kids’ story rather than the blotting out of humanity description it really is.