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Article: After the deluge: Deliverance.(Opinion)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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In the Book of Genesis, it is written that after the Great Flood, Noah built an altar and sacrificed to the Lord. The odor of the sacrifice pleased the Lord, and he said to himself, “Never again will I put the earth under the curse because of what man does; I know that from the time he is young his thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living things, as I have done this time. As long as the world exists, there will be a time for planting and a time for harvest. There will always be cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.”With the waters just beginning to recede in Metro Manila and the provinces of Northern Luzon still flooded, rescue and ...