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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:35 PM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">There's a bit in John that says (I paraphrase): Jesus does not come to put the world on trial or to condemn it, but to rescue it.<br>
<br>Severian comes to carry out a death sentence.<br><br></blockquote>
<div>Yes. By flooding. My memory of Genesis is pretty hazy, but isn't there a bit in it where God says he won't do that again?</div>
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<div>Anyway, I read BOTNS/UOTNS as containing zero evidence that Sev is acting for God, and only comprehensible as a tragedy - but appreciate that I'm in a minority with that!</div></div>