<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danldo@gmail.com" target="_blank">danldo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div><br></div></span><div>Actually, God never promises that the Earth will not again be flooded - only that He will not do it. And, in New Sun, God does not do it; the Yesodis and Severian do.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Gen 9:11 in the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition has: "I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." This flood neither killed everyone nor destroyed the earth, so it would seem to be ok regardless of who was responsible.</div></div>
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