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The story of Noah's flood is one of the most famous in the history of the world. Despite the dark reality of the story, it's one of our favorite children's stories for Sunday School, VBS, and even children's nurseries. But the events described in Genesis 6-9 are troubling when we sit with them honestly for any amount of time. Many skeptics have claimed that a god who would cause such a catastrophe isn't worthy of worship at all. And unfortunately, the cognitive dissonance we feel around this story has caused us to over-simplify its meaning to "Man = Bad, God = Mad." But what if there is something far more important we're supposed to learn about God, and about ourselves here? The question "what kind of God would do this?" is the key. This isn't the God you've heard about.