The Dove and the Olive Leaf
The Dove and the Olive Leaf
Scripture reading from Genesis 8:1-12
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REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1) What is strange about the statement that God remembered Noah and all that was on the ark? Remembering is often mentioned in scripture – God remembering and our remembering. What should we remember about God?
2) Compare Genesis 8:1’s “he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded” with Genesis 1:2 (wind & Spirit). What other parallels come to you between the first and eighth chapters?
3) What was the cause of the Great Flood? Some skeptics ask, “Where did all the water go?”
4) Why didn’t the raven come back but the first dove did?
5) Contemplate the symbolism of doves and the olive in scripture? How do these themes apply here? How do these themes apply to our day and age?