The Flood with Sonja Knutson

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What if we’ve been asking the wrong questions about the flood? Instead of debating water heights and global maps, we step into the ancient world that first carried this story and ask what they were trying to remember about God, themselves, and the shape of a good life. The conversation opens with a personal miracle and then widens to the tensions we all feel when modern sensibilities crash into ancient narratives.

We explore how cultural memory works—why fairy tales were once brutal, why children’s murals skip the grief—and why the Bible’s flood story is not meant to be cute. Drawing on the insight that scripture was written for us but not to us, we show how the text reveals divine grief over human violence, the desire to cleanse a corrupted world, and the possibility of a true restart. Along the way, we treat science as a partner asking how, while faith asks why, acknowledging that many cultures hold flood memories without forcing a single, brittle reading.

From there, we reframe the story around four anchors: Jesus as the ark and our refuge, obedience that looks odd but preserves life, baptism as cleansing that frees us from shame and addiction, and covenant hope symbolized by the rainbow. These themes move the flood out of the nursery and into everyday practice—learning to listen when outrage sells, choosing peace over performative anger, and becoming shelter for one another when life rises around our knees. By focusing on meaning over mechanics, we recover a story that steadies us through grief, makes us honest about harm, and calls us into renewal.

Join us for a thoughtful, compassionate walk through a hard text that still speaks with power. If this conversation helps you breathe easier or see the story with fresh eyes, share it with a friend, subscribe for more, and leave a review with the lens that most changed your view.

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