Dear brothers and sisters,
Thank you for this thought provoking series!
Aren't we also engaging in "half-truths" when we interpret the Divine Principle literally by saying that God was only "heartbroken" by the Fall?
Don't all parents grieve when their children leave home, but at the same time happy to see them go out on their own? Take their own risks? Make their own mistakes?
Isn't that what it takes to mature?
Isn't what the scripture says in Gen 6:6 is that God was sorry because mankind was evil "all the time"—versus, say, just part of the time?
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil..."
—Gen 3:22
—Gen 3:22
And then, in Gen 8:21, he regretted the flood. (He got "flooded," you might say.)
Respectfully and with love
Your brother
Your brother
