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There is a “Peanuts” cartoon strip in which Lucy and Linus are staring out the window at a tremendous rainfall. Lucy says, “Boy, look at that rain! What if it floods the whole world?” Linus replies, “it will never do that. In the ninth chapter of Genesis, God promised Noah that would never happen again, and the sign of the promise is the rainbow.” Lucy looks at Linus approvingly, then turns again to the window and says, “You’ve taken a great load off my mind.” To which Linus replies, “Sound theology has a way of doing that.”